Shamsul Huq Zahid 2020-05-17 21:18:02
The world is eagerly waiting for an effective vaccine against novel coronavirus that has been wreaking havoc for the past three months. Though the peoples across world got disheartened, to some exten...
Muhammad Mahmood 2020-05-16 21:25:11
The UK's exit (Brexit) from the European Union (EU) is to be seen from a wider context of the UK economy's incomplete recovery from the 2007-08 global financial crisis (GFC) and the aftereffects...
Mahfuz Kabir 2020-05-13 21:42:49
At this time of unprecedented human misery all over the globe, there is the crucial need to bring changes in our lifestyle. With the corona pandemic sweeping across countries, tobacco use has again co...
Esther Indriani 2020-05-10 21:10:25
Across developing Asian, Covid-19 is a gigantic nemesis that can paralyse their already frail and inadequately prepared health system. Overcrowded health facilities combined with shortage of personal...
Helal Uddin Ahmed 2020-05-07 21:38:25
Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury Bir Bikram was one of the key organisers of the oath-taking ceremony of Bangladesh Government-in-Exile at Boidyanathtala (later renamed Mujibnagar) under the then Meherpur...
Mushfiqur Rahman 2020-05-06 21:37:30
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has been trying to procure and store at least 10 days' reserve for petroleum products (estimated 0.11 million tonnes) taking the advantage of the 'very low' inte...
Syed Basher and Pooja Agnes Gomes 2020-05-04 21:49:06
During the lockdown, it has become a habit to check Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association or BGMEA's website daily. BGMEA has been reporting some vital statistics about the imp...
Mariana Mazzucato and Els Torreele 2020-04-30 21:44:56
In the early weeks of 2020, it started to dawn on people that COVID-19 could be the long-dreaded but expected "Disease X" - a global pandemic caused by an unknown virus. Three months later, the majori...
Shihab Sarkar 2020-04-30 21:33:09
In contrast to Hamlet's paean for man in one of his soliloquies, humans possess a complex character which baffles many. To them, man remains largely indecipherable. As they view it, it is during gre...
Shihab Sarkar 2020-04-27 21:21:37
Apart from the many forebodings creeping into the sensible city people's mind at the moment, lots of other ominous thoughts continue to haunt them. A dominant one among them is the slow easing of th...
Sifat I Ishty 2020-04-25 21:59:11
Conventionally, the Western world has been highly regarded for upholding democratic values and for being at the forefront of labour and human rights movement. Nevertheless, on certain occasions, t...
Muhammad Mahmood 2020-04-25 21:56:54
The outbreak of Covid-19 that began in Wuhan in China in December last year has now turned into a pandemic. Now more than 180 countries have confirmed cases of the virus. Most of us have not e...
Shihab Sarkar 2020-04-23 21:37:25
A time spent without any fruitful work is considered sheer waste of time. Nature has never had a mechanism to bring back a certain period of lost time --- especially misspent time. Many a golden chu...
Syed Hasan 2020-04-22 21:04:55
Bangladesh is growing rapidly - at one of the fastest rates in the world. The country's rapid progress, among others, will lead to a rapid rise in the demand for university graduates and consequently...
Aparna Howlader and Naima Farah 2020-04-20 21:48:02
In the last couple of months, unparalleled to any past events, economic and social impacts of the Covid-19 outbreak have become the main topic of global discussion. The pandemic, originated in Wuhan,...
Rezaul Hossain 2020-04-19 21:07:53
By the end of 2020, at least 20 billion devices along with more than 5 billion people and businesses will be integrated through digital technology. Digital Financial Service (DFS) promises extensive d...
Eswar Prasad and Ethan Wu in Ithaca, New York, USA 2020-04-18 20:33:27
The world economy is on the precipice of its worst crisis since World War II. As the newly updated Brookings-FT TIGER (Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery) makes clear, economic activi...
Muhammad Mahmood 2020-04-18 20:19:04
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) published its World Economic Outlook for 2020 and 2021 last Tuesday (April 14). Amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the world currently looking like some...
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Since the beginning of February coronavirus has been spreading astonishingly throughout the United States. The governments at the federal as well as in the states level were at first unprepared and co...
M. Rokonuzzaman 2020-04-15 21:08:22
To fight the Covid-19 pandemic, we need several gears starting from hand sanitisers, surgical masks to hand gloves. In taking care of infected patients, healthcare workers require personal protectiv...
Manuel Manonelles in Barcelona, Spain 2020-04-13 21:59:19
We have long speculated on the moment when the shift of global leadership from the United States to China would take place. From Washington to Beijing for the political power, from New York to Shangha...
Zubayer Hossen 2020-04-12 21:20:33
There is no denying that Bangladesh has made significant progress in reducing poverty. The moderate poverty rate has reduced to 24.3 per cent in 2016-17 from 58.8 per cent in 1991-92, while the extr...
Ferdaus Ara Begum 2020-04-12 21:19:14
After the outbreak of the Covid-19, different countries, based on their capabilities, have announced stimulus packages. Bangladesh has opted for credit expansion policy and Prime Minister Sheikh Has...
Abdullah A Dewan from Michigan, USA 2020-04-12 21:12:10
In my April 08 piece in the Financial Express "Wall Street and the American Economy", I noted that skewed risk taking and over leveraged bets primarily contributed to the meltdown in mortgage-backed s...
Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad 2020-04-11 21:41:21
The Covid-19 cases have started to rise fast in Bangladesh, indicating an unsavoury prospect. The Government of Bangladesh is rightly increasing the number of tests for coronavirus, which is an abso...
Bazlul Haque Khondker 2020-04-08 20:55:05
The year 2020 began with doubts whether it would be possible to sustain socio-economic advancements attained during the last few years. The reason is the depressing state of major indicators such as...
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana 2020-04-08 20:52:24
The unprecedented public health emergency triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic and its multi-faceted impact on people's lives around the world is taking a heavy toll on Asia and the Pacific. Countries...
Md. Abdur Rouf 2020-04-06 21:59:08
In the Preamble of the VAT and SD Act 2012, four objectives have been stipulated. Those are (1) expansion of the base for imposition of Value Added Tax (VAT), Supplementary Duty (SD) and Turnover Tax...
Pinki Shah 2020-04-06 21:13:25
The lockdown following the sudden outbreak of corona virus (Covid-19) has transformed people from being social to isolated human beings as a means of combating the pandemic. The effects of the pandemi...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2020-04-06 21:07:21
An emergent million-dollar Covid-19 question: should the supply chains snapped by the outbreak, lockdowns, and quarantines be restored or replaced, given the climbing breakdown costs? With its dominan...
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