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Syed Jamaluddin 2018-01-02 12:00:00
The tannery industry is now polluting the Dhaleswari river after the Buriganga as the central effluent treatment plant (CETP) for treating liquid waste and hazardous chemicals is yet to be fully opera...
M Rokonuzzaman 2018-01-01 12:00:00
The entry of a European robot company in Bangladesh eying to automate 3.0 million manufacturing jobs is more than a threat of job loss. In an industry, once one firm starts taking the advantage of rob...
Minhazur Rahman Rezvi 2017-12-30 12:00:00
The fact that Bangladesh is moving fast in ensuring gender equality does not come as a surprise. The country has been making strides for achieving considerable improvement in this field for quite some...
Jeffrey D. Sachs 2017-12-30 08:01:27
This Christmas, America's gift to the world was a $285 million cut in the United Nations' regular budget. Technically, the UN regular budget reflects a consensus decision of the body's 193 member stat...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-12-28 10:05:22
Mother Nature struck with a vengeance during 2017. It was less a year of calamity-specific records being broken, though there was a case or two of that, as it was a year of the net effects of too many...
Dan Steinbock 2017-12-27 12:00:00
In the coming years, China shall aim at high-quality development, while seeking to forestall financial and international risks. The recent Central Economic Work Conference marked a historical point i...
Masih Malik Chowdhury 2017-12-26 10:01:31
The amount of non-performing loans (NPLs) was at an all-time high in August 2017. "There is a tendency in our entire banking sector not to disburse loans as per schedule, and as such the clients are b...
Martin Khor 2017-12-25 07:45:15
In 2017, Donald Trump dominated the year by using US clout to change many aspects of global relations, and not for the better. What a year it has been! As 2017 slips away, and 2018 dawns,...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2017-12-24 10:22:49
The signing of the terms of reference (ToR) by Bangladesh and Myanmar, on Tuesday last, to form a joint working group (JWG) in a bid to start the repatriation process of refugees is apparently an impo...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2017-12-23 09:34:14
The United States has never been an honest peace broker in the Middle East. Since the Balfour declaration, the United States became an ardent sympathiser of the Jews clamouring for a separate homeland...
Nilratan Halder 2017-12-22 12:00:00
To many the adage that truth is stranger than fiction is nothing more than a nebulous conception. But when it appears in all its magnificent or malignant uncertainty or disbelief to an individual, lif...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-12-21 08:32:24
Except earthquakes all natural calamities give prior warnings before strike. They range from cyclones and hurricanes to volcanic eruptions. Floods take days, and even weeks, before they begin affectin...
Edmund S. Phelps 2017-12-20 07:49:07
Every country has national problems, such as a dangerous loss of inclusion or a costly loss of growth. We learn that a solution does not happen without society's understanding of the problem and a wid...
Kemal Dervis 2017-12-19 12:00:00
Economic growth is accelerating across most of the world. Yet the world's total gross debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio has reached nearly 250 per cent, up from 210 per cent before the global...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-12-19 10:06:30
The just concluded ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has at least one important outcome. It is the push for plurilateral trade negotiations. While multilateral trade negotia...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-12-18 08:55:24
Every year carries its own uniqueness claims, some that descent with a roar, others pass by silently yet still making an assertive presence. Yet others persist softly but promise a noisier ending. Mot...
M S Siddiqui 2017-12-17 12:00:00
Fisheries subsidies are government actions that confer an advantage on consumers or extractors of fish in order to supplement their income or lower their cost. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) seeks...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2017-12-15 12:00:00
Bangladesh became an independent nation state after achieving victory in a nine-month-long war for freedom, democracy, social justice and self-reliance which Andre Malraux once called "the last noble...
Uttam Deb and Abdul Bayes 2017-12-15 09:04:02
The Village Dynamics in South Asia (VDSA), under the umbrella of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), ca...
Rahman Jahangir 2017-12-15 08:57:29
It's one hundred per cent true that the men on the driving seats of vehicles alone can avert crashes or accidents on roads. They have the acumen and IQ to know how they could do it even in unfit vehic...
Bibhash Banik 2017-12-14 08:47:44
The Liberation War of 1971 is the most glorious chapter in the national history of Bangladesh. Every nook and cranny of the country still resonates with the heroic and courageous stories of the then o...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2017-12-13 12:00:00
Sustainable Development Goal-8 affirms that increasing labour productivity, reducing the unemployment rate and improving access to financial services and benefits are essential components of sustained...
Dani Rodrik 2017-12-12 09:08:20
Greece's combative former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, and his nemesis, former German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, were at loggerheads on Greek debt throughout Varoufakis's term in...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-12-11 07:26:15
On the 30th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's 'tear down this wall' speech to a financially imploding Soviet Union leader during his June 12, 1987 Berlin visit, Donald J. Trump, who campaigned to break d...
Dan Steinbock 2017-12-10 12:00:00
Recently, the Trump administration joined the EU and rejected the view that under the WTO terms China should have graduated last year to market-economy status. Now Trump is using Obama's accession leg...
Shamsul Alam 2017-12-09 12:00:00
The critical role of nutrition in cognitive development of the children highlights the importance of social protection measures. According to the World Bank, children between conception and age of 4,...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 2017-12-08 12:00:00
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have emerged in recent years as the development 'flavour of the decade' in place of aspects of the old Washington Consensus. Instead of replacing the role of governm...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-12-07 09:08:43
People like Zillul Hye Razi are not found too often. Razi passed his life from youth to his sudden death at 66 on November 27in style. It was unique to him. Apart from the folksy way he appeared to hi...
Hasnat Abdul Hye 2017-12-07 07:19:06
As there are limitations of cybernetic method of policy analysis it is pertinent to discuss other alternatives. The welfare optimising model is one such method that has been proposed by some policy an...
M. Serajul Islam 2017-12-06 08:07:07
The Myanmar military has been identified worldwide in the same manner as was the Pakistani military in 1971. This is largely due to the diplomatic initiatives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during he...
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