Muhammad Zamir 2020-09-20 21:29:16
The last few days have witnessed Chinese senior officials undertaking trips to various countries and attending meetings to try and resolve and reduce impact of evolving sensitive issues that are casti...
Ferdaus Ara Begum 2020-09-20 21:24:02
Since it's difficult to clearly define women entrepreneurs in view of diverse criteria in different countries and even within a country, there is an imperative to find a single, universal definition...
Haradhan Sarker 2020-09-19 21:30:03
Can we say for certain that recovery of farm credit disbursed by the banking sector of Bangladesh continues to exhibit improving trends? Are the statistics on recovery position consistent in several...
Vijay Prashad and John Rross 2020-09-18 21:10:53
In Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, he reports on interviews he did in February and March with US President Donald Trump about the coronavirus. Trump admitted that the virus was...
Shihab Sarkar 2020-09-17 21:30:12
An ominous existential threat now looms above the country's overall cinema industry. The sector involves a lot of segments and activities. Those mainly include movie-making, with directors, artistes,...
Hasnat Abdul Hye 2020-09-17 20:59:08
When countries overwhelmed with the pandemic outbreak declared lockdown (holiday in Bangladesh) their economies did not come to a standstill. Some sectors like agriculture, food processing, pharmace...
Parvez Sazzad Chowdhury 2020-09-16 20:56:08
Reviewing the trend of economic growth of the last ten years, it can be said with certainty that the economy of Bangladesh is at a particular stage of development at the moment. The government is comm...
Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder 2020-09-15 22:14:24
In 1994, the UN General Assembly proclaimed September 16 the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, commemorating the date of the signing, in 1987, of the Montreal Protocol in the...
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat published a new information note last month examining the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on world agricultural trade. The paper notes that agricultural...
M. Abu Eusuf 2020-09-14 21:46:02
In democratic governance, the question of how public resources are mobilised and spent is particularly important to the relationship between citizens and state. The government is always expected to re...
Brahima Coulibaly, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Vera Songwe 2020-09-14 20:51:56
As summer winds down, another wave of Covid-19 infections looms. While cases remain under control in Cambodia, Denmark, Mauritius, and Morocco, they are on the rise in Ethiopia and parts of the United...
Muhammad Zamir 2020-09-13 20:56:29
Towards the end of February this year, United States of America and the Afghan Taliban signed an agreement aimed at achieving an end to almost 30 years of violent conflict in Afghanistan. This was bas...
Muhammad Mahmood 2020-09-12 20:20:05
The 8th Round of Brexit trade talks resumed in London on Tuesday, September 8 with a deadline set by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to get the deal signed by October 15 to avoid tariffs on cross border...
Gerd Schwartz, Manal Fouad, Torben Hansen, and Geneviève Verdier 2020-09-10 21:23:27
Covid-19 has had a profound impact on people, firms, and economies all over the world. While countries have ramped up public lifelines to individuals and firms they will face enormous challenges to re...
Abdul Bayes 2020-09-10 21:21:12
Any person deeply delved into Bangladesh's macroeconomic health should hurriedly access the most recently released book: "Bangladesh's Macroeconomic Policy: Trends, Determinants and Impact". Edi...
Shihab Sarkar 2020-09-10 20:21:11
Like the seas or oceans, deserts have also long been fascinating man by their immense expanse. Undeniably, the desert sands lying infinitely for ages have beckoned a lot of humans. These people are gi...
Md. Abdul Karim 2020-09-10 20:09:21
The impact of climate change-- floods, drought, extreme weather, growing food/water insecurity etc., disproportionately affect the world's 1.3 billion poor, the majority of whom are women. 70 per ce...
Mohammad Masoom 2020-09-08 20:53:57
Classified loans in the country's banking sector stood at around Tk. 961.15 billion accounting for 9.20 per cent of the total outstanding loan in June 2020. During the quarter (April-June) default l...
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For Mahmood Patel, 2020 was supposed to be a bumper year for his Barbados-based, tourism-dependent small business ventures. They include beach-front apartments, an organic farm-to-table café a...
Hasnat M Alamgir 2020-09-07 20:51:32
The incidence of burn injuries is frighteningly high in Bangladesh. A considerable proportion of the population-- both adult and pediatric of both gender-- suffers from preventable burn injuries. Ac...
Muhammad Mahmood 2020-09-05 20:00:51
The purpose of this article is to highlight issues that can impact on Bangladesh GDP in view of the controversy surrounding the latest published data on the GDP growth rate for 2019-20. Accordin...
Asjadul Kibria 2020-09-03 21:45:06
The development journey of Bangladesh reached a new height when the country became formally eligible to leave the Least Developed Country (LDC) league in 2018. Three years back in 2015, the country...
Md Sajib Hossain 2020-09-03 21:10:02
Most of the companies that floated their stocks through book building methods in the past decade have experienced a significant decline in the post-IPO operating performance and seriously underperform...
Mohammad Khasro Miah 2020-09-02 21:16:46
Maintaining industrial productivity and smooth operation amid this global pandemic is imperative through formulating rational and the appropriate strategies. This sudden depression, uncertain...
UNCTAD 2020-09-01 22:32:02
The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing countries to reassess and recalibrate their national and foreign policies. The need for the structural transformation of economies, which has eluded many developing c...
Md Sirajul Islam and Mohammad Rezaul Bari 2020-09-01 21:38:54
It has already been around for about nine months and the ubiquitous appearance of Covid-19 is still prevalent all around the globe. At the initial stage, it was assumed to be an epidemic like any ot...
Shamsul Alam and Mohammad Zariab Hossain 2020-08-31 21:54:14
Now it is important to understand the trend of Covid-19 pandemic infestation and death rates in Bangladesh while we are gradually relaxing all economic activities and trying to bring back the normalcy...
Haradhan Sarker 2020-08-31 20:44:50
The government announced big set of financial stimulus packages aimed at offsetting widespread economic impacts of COVID-19 is now more pronounced than the actual status of implementation. The onus...
Sophie Cousins in The Lancet 2020-08-29 21:39:38
Public health experts in Bangladesh have expressed concern about the government's decision to charge people for Covid-19 tests amid a sharp decline in the number of tests being...
Hasnat M Alamgir 2020-08-27 21:49:18
The giant North American retail companies including JCPenney, Kohl's, Macy's, Nordstrom, Sears, Target, Canadian Tire, The Children's Place, Costco, Fruit of the Loom, Gap, Hudson's Bay, VF Corporatio...
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