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Shihab Sarkar 2020-08-27 21:11:32
Like seen in many other sectors, the novel coronavirus pandemic has left its debilitating impact also on the country's socio-cultural activities. Due to relentless involvement of scores of social acti...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2020-08-27 00:00:32
Ould Ne Salem, a nomadic pastoralist from southeast Mauritania, has been stuck in the country since the outbreak of Covid-19 earlier this year. Like many other nomadic herders in the region, Ould Ne...
Md. Ashraful Goni 2020-08-26 21:38:56
The current pandemic has brought us to a new reality in the culture of education - learning online,which has been a major trendin the past four months. Online classestranscend geographical boundary,...
Natalie C Tronson 2020-08-24 23:36:25
It is now clear that many patients suffering from Covid-19 exhibit neurological symptoms, from loss of smell, to delirium, to an increased risk of stroke. There are also longer-lasting consequences fo...
Abdur Rahman 2020-08-24 21:46:44
In a stunning development the United Arab Emirates and Israel declared on Thursday, August 13 to end decades of hostility and begin a new chapter in their relationship. Both announced recognition of e...
Stefania Dina 2020-08-23 21:31:47
It has become increasingly clear that the problem of food insecurity needs special attention when addressing the impact of Covid-19. The suspension of public transportation, disrupted local and inter...
Mohammad Riad Uddin, Jobaida Behtarin, Syed Basher, and Salim Rashid 2020-08-22 21:36:42
In early March 2020, when Bangladesh took Covid-19 as a serious threat to public health, many thought the virus would wreak havoc on the millions of slum dwellers of Bangladesh. Covid-19 presented its...
Muhammad Mahmood 2020-08-22 21:04:32
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused the global economy its worst contraction in almost a century. Current forecasts portray a very gloomy picture for 2020 with a 13 to 32 per cent decline i...
Hasnat M Alamgir 2020-08-22 21:01:39
The sequence of garment factory fires and building collapses provoked widespread calls domestically and internationally to improve workplace health and safety conditions in Bangladesh which is a key...
Haradhan Sarker 2020-08-21 20:43:50
The issue of inequality occupies a dominant place in development discourse and debate pervading across the globe. Reportedly, the economy of Bangladesh is infected by inequality malaise. Not only crit...
Syed Badrul Ahsan 2020-08-20 23:29:44
Many Indians in particular and South Asians in general are quite enthused by Joe Biden's vice presidential pick in the United States. The child of Jamaican and Indian parents, Senator Kamala Harris is...
Shihab Sarkar 2020-08-20 21:16:15
Late artist Murtaja Baseer (1932-2020) passed an eventful creative life. Few artists are fortunate enough to be able to lead their lives in a dignified freedom like that of Baseer. Son of Dr Muhammad...
Hasnat Abdul Hye 2020-08-19 21:53:23
The pandemic of Coronavirus overwhelmed almost all countries in the world about the same time, taking them by storm. Having no parallel in terms of rapid spread, scope and severity, it became a wate...
Joel E Cohen 2020-08-18 20:46:00
New research published this July in The Lancet forecasts that continued growth "through the century is no longer the most likely trajectory for the world's population." Rather, the global population...
Mushfiqur Rahman 2020-08-18 20:42:22
The government has been considering to reduce power tariff for industrial consumers. Power Division of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources has reviewed the current power consumption...
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Over the past decade, growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been at the centre of attention of economic policy discourse in Bangladesh. However, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has al...
Sabbir Rahman Khan 2020-08-16 21:44:45
Building on the foundation of low wage rate, our RMG sector has been labeled by foreign buyers as a low cost hub for high volume product sourcing. This is quite ironical that we are proudly selling ou...
Muhammad Mahmood 2020-08-15 19:54:00
The economic outlook for the Bangladesh and other economies around the world is now being driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. The economic contraction caused by the pandemic is quite staggering. The sobe...
Mokerrom Hossain 2020-08-14 22:27:33
August 15 has become a national mourning day of Bangladesh and it will remain so forever. This day will be solemnly observed across the country. Forty five years ago, a young group of military personn...
Shihab Sarkar 2020-08-13 20:54:32
The country passed through the ordeals of devastating floods in consecutive years in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Geologically, Bangladesh has been a flood-prone country since ancient times. Followin...
Muhammad Zamir 2020-08-09 21:34:10
President Donald Trump, about three months away from the next US Presidential elections in November, is creating havoc for himself and his Republican Party through controversial comments and decisions...
Muhammad Mahmood 2020-08-08 21:53:13
In the very early hours of Tuesday, July 21, 27 member countries of the European Union after four days of very acrimonious negotiations agreed to an economic rescue plan to help member cou...
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The remarkable growth of cities in recent decades has intensified a number of humanity's most pressing challenges. It has also presented many of our greatest opportunities to protect people, prosperit...
Era Dabla-Norris, Vitor Gaspar and Kalpana Kochhar 2020-08-06 21:39:20
Once Covid-19 abates, we will be reminded of how everything changed, of the world that was. But the unfolding crisis contains profound lessons for the future. When international delegates met at Br...
Hasnat Abdul Hye 2020-08-06 21:36:28
Conventionally, monetary policy in Bangladesh has played a secondary role, complementing the fiscal policy as embodied in annual budget. It now appears, as an irony of history, that among the scarc...
Md Habibur Rahman 2020-08-06 21:15:55
Money is the lifeblood of an economy. It moves into various economic steams to keep the economy alive. Depending on the degree of liquidibility, the money can be defined as M0, M1, M2, M3, M4, and so...
Sakib Bin Amin 2020-08-05 20:21:50
The fundamental role of electricity in shaping the global economy is widely acknowledged nowadays. No country has managed to develop beyond a subsistence economy without ensuring that a large section...
Zaid Bakht 2020-08-04 22:02:52
The audited accounts of different commercial banks for 2019 started coming out in the newspapers in recent weeks. Usually, these are published earlier in the year during April-May. Dislocations relate...
Muhammad Zamir 2020-08-04 21:54:45
Most of the world thought that the EU leaders would be unable to reach a compromise with regard to finding a recovery solution in the post-Coronavirus world. However, such a recovery deal was reached...
Anisur Rahman 2020-08-04 21:48:22
It was an early spring evening. The sun was setting behind the trees on the bank of the river Shitalakkhya on the opposite side of Palash in Narsingdi. We all gathered on the riverbank on the way back...
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