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Delwar Hossain 2020-01-19 20:59:33
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is a process of dispute settlement outside the formal judicial system through mutual compromise and agreement by the parties themselves with the third party facili...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2020-01-16 20:50:41
We might know more of the moon and have had many more astronauts walk on its surface than we do the ocean floor or scientists pacing it up and down. At least that is what Wil S. Hylton concluded in...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2020-01-16 20:45:00
Women's leadership role in political spheres as well as development activities remains a serious concern worldwide. Recognition of the importance of women's effective participation and representation...
Zubayer Hossen and Nadeera Sultana 2020-01-16 20:29:38
The world is moving towards a future demanding an inclusive society - a society where everyone will enjoy the benefits of economic development, social inclusion and environmental sustainability irresp...
Hanan Morsy in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 2020-01-15 21:17:55
While much of the world struggles with rapid population aging, Africa is experiencing the opposite trend. With 60 per cent of the continent's population under the age of 25, African leaders must ensur...
Shah Ahsan Habib 2020-01-14 20:32:42
Not different from other developing economies, international trade transactions of Bangladesh heavily depend on US Dollar as the key mode of receiving and making payments. The country's cross border t...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2020-01-13 21:26:08
Klaus Schwab helped initiate the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, from 1971. Two years later he presented a 'Davos Manifesto' about capitalism that he is now, in January 2020, re-mode...
Ishac Diwan in Beirut, Lebanon 2020-01-13 20:40:29
In retrospect, financial crises usually appear predetermined; but rarely do they offer much clarity about history's direction. That is certainly the case in Lebanon today, where a predictable crisis h...
Muhammad Zamir 2020-01-12 20:30:27
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, released from his internment in Pakistan on January 08, 1972, eventually returned to Dhaka, the capital of independent Bangladesh amidst a rapturous welcome on ...
Anis Chowdhury in Sydney and Jomo Kwame Sundaram in Kuala Lumpur 2020-01-12 20:27:26
The latest November 2019 UBS/PwC Billionaires Report counted 2,101 billionaires globally, or 589 more than five years before. Earlier, Farhad Manjoo had seriously recommended, 'Abolish Billionaires'...
Sunera Saba Khan 2020-01-12 20:10:47
Child labour in different industries across the world is common. However, one would not even think about presence of child labour in the makeup industry. Generally, any ethical issue in therewould rel...
Rubaiya Ehsan Karishma 2020-01-11 21:09:01
Bangladesh has moved up eight notches to 168 among 190 countries in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index 2020. The country's ranking was 176 last year. The improvement is an encouraging sig...
K Sallahuddin 2020-01-10 20:31:56
I met Justice Murshed in his twilight years when he had become frail and ailing, yet one could notice his greatness and the respect he commanded. Having been introduced by the late Shamsur Rahman as a...
Jeffrey D. Sachs in New York 2020-01-09 21:33:26
US President Donald Trump's order to assassinate Iran's General Qassem Suleimani while on an official mission to Iraq was widely hailed in Trump's jingoistic Republican Party. Government-sanctioned mu...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2020-01-09 21:26:31
Capitalism is at bay. At least Branko Milanovic, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, thinks so. In the first Foreign Affairs issue of 2020, he captures and articulates the ensuing...
Abdullah A Dewan 2020-01-08 20:43:49
Former Finance Minister AMA Muhith, while speaking at a two-day research almanac organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in Dhaka, has applauded the studies and research...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain 2020-01-08 20:14:18
It was a bolt out of the blue to learn the sudden demise of artist Kalidas Karmakar in Dhaka on October 18, 2019, at the age of 73. The internationally acclaimed artist was an amiable personality who...
Steven Goldfinch and Rebekah Beatrice Ramsay 2020-01-07 20:25:31
Almost 75 per cent of the world's disaster displacement in 2018 - that's over 12.6 million people forced to relocate from their homes - occurred in Asia and the Pacific. According to recent modeling...
Farhana Haque Rahman 2020-01-07 20:05:55
Let's face what lies ahead with open eyes: 2020 is going to be a very tough year for the world, and developing countries in particular. The infant decade has already begun with the harbingers of clima...
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani 2020-01-06 21:15:22
Before US President Donald Trump decided to withdraw his country from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in May 2018, Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister and the nuclear agreement's chief...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2020-01-06 20:56:52
As 2019 sinks in the abyss and 2020 makes its appearance on the not-so-distant-any more future, it may be appropriate to take stock what wounds we must treat and how to prepare for the inevitable 'kno...
Muhammad Zamir 2020-01-05 20:34:00
The year 2020 will be particularly important not only because it will see the next US Presidential election in November, but also because it will be the start of another decade where several existing...
Ferdaus Ara Begum 2020-01-05 20:21:12
There is no alternative to good public governance involving efficient and accountable public procurement for Bangladesh's social and economic development. The country is about to make its public procu...
MS Siddiqui 2020-01-04 21:01:05
Financial trading companies operating in Bangladesh used to deal with transactions relating to foreign trade without any explicit law or policy on legality of transfer of right over invoice. The count...
Z.M. Hafizur Rahman and Nayeem Shahriar 2020-01-04 20:57:11
The economy of Bangladesh is now thriving with a very promising GDP (gross domestic product) growth of 8.1 per cent. After liberation and especially after 1990, development in many spheres has been...
Roberto Savio 2020-01-04 20:29:19
In a world shaken by so many problems, it is difficult to look at 2020 and not make some kind of holistic analysis. While enormous progress has been made on many fronts, it is clear that the tide has...
Hasnat Abdul Hye 2020-01-02 21:21:35
Review of economic events and outcome of the same for Bangladesh economy during 2019 can be made systematically, beginning from the global through macro to micro economics contexts. The following appr...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2020-01-02 21:10:17
If the year 2019 was so filled with trials and tribulations, one must bear in mind it belongs to a rough historical passage. It is not just the 2008-11 'Great Recession' still haunting the global econ...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2020-01-02 20:39:38
The education system that we see in today's Bangladesh is basically inherited from British-India. Expansion of education among the mass people started during that period. However, Bangladesh's indep...
Shihab Sarkar 2020-01-02 20:32:33
'The medium is the message', said British-Canadian media expert Marshall McLuhan almost a century ago. With the publication of his ground-breaking book 'Gutenberg Galaxy' in the beginning of the 1960s...
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