Search results for: review

Reforms a must for settling taxation disputes

Akhter Zamil 2016-05-28 17:52:32

For quite some time, the world has been observing an incredible upward curve of the Bangladesh economy. Without any doubt, today's Bangladesh is an emerging force to be reckoned with. But unfor...

Towards a fruitful teaching profession

-- 2016-05-26 20:14:29

S. M. Rayhanul Islam ______________________ The Right to Education and the Teaching Profession Published by UNESCO, September, 2015 Pages 149 ____________________ An education system...

A scathing view of red-tape corruption

-- 2016-05-26 20:11:55

Syed Mahbubur Rashid _____________________ Gods of Corruption By Promilla Shankar (I.A.S. Retd) Published by Manas Publications  (We convert fighters into writers) New Delhi- 110002, I...

Coping with the demon called drug abuse

Shihab Sarkar 2016-05-26 19:50:25

Many species in the animal world are said to be in love with intoxicants. According to researchers, a few of them even make periodic trips to psychedelic addiction. They get their highs from wild p...

Leveraging private sector tools for sustainable economic development

Mehdi Hasan 2016-05-25 18:37:14

One of many strategies for economic development is making businesses more inclusive. The term "inclusive business" means integrating the poor into the market system either as consumers on the deman...

Erdogan\'s misplaced sympathy for Bangladesh war criminals

Syed Ashraf Ali 2016-05-24 18:07:33

While Pakistan went through a rather subdued routine of protesting execution of their one-time collaborators-the war criminals of Bangladesh-the Turkish President Erdogan has chosen to make louder...

Supply side, demand side, or innovation side?

Edmund S. Phelps in New York 2016-05-23 20:10:22

It has become impossible to deny the so-called secular stagnation gripping the world's most developed economies: Wealth is piling up, but real wages are barely rising and labour force participa...

Getting rid of fossil fuels

Naim Ebna Rahman 2016-05-21 19:27:09

There is a massive global movement against using fossil fuels for reducing carbon emissions and tackling the challenges of global warming. Germany has created an example for others by taking a deci...

Hiroshima with or without remorse?

Aryeh Neier in New York 2016-05-21 19:24:15

The announcement that US President Barack Obama's visit to Japan later this month will include a stop in Hiroshima is welcome news. Of course, Obama will not apologise for America's 1945 nu...

Poor SSC results of rural schools need a rethink

Shihab Sarkar 2016-05-19 19:07:47

The dismal passing rate of rural secondary schools in the 2016 SSC and equivalent exam results may not surprise many. The overall education scenario in our villages has for ages been below par comp...

Outlining strategy to deal with NTMs

Asjadul Kibria 2016-05-19 18:46:48

Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) have become a very big concern for the bilateral as well as regional trade especially in South Asia. Eight member-countries of the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regi...

The economic consequences of Brexit

Philippe Legrain in London 2016-05-17 19:20:38

Those campaigning for Britain to exit the European Union (EU) claim that doing so would make their country both freer and richer. They assert that after "Brexit", the UK could quickly negotiate a b...

New VAT Law and the issue of multiple rates

Md. Abdur Rouf 2016-05-17 18:40:35

The Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act, 2012 (the new VAT law) is scheduled to come into effect from July 01, 2016. Meanwhile, several issues have cropped up; of them, the issue of package...

Remedial provisions of Artha Rin Adalat Ain 2003

Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed 2016-05-14 18:11:29

Equality before the law stands for application of the same law without discrimination to all persons similarly situated. This principle has been incorporated in the Article 27 of Bangladesh Constit...

Uniqueness of Tagore, his relevance to our times

Shihab Sarkar 2016-05-12 18:33:24

Seventy-five years after the death of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) the multi-faceted genius of the great poet keeps being illumined. With the passing of time, Tagore experts and scholars in Dhak...

Youth employment for inclusive development

S. M. Rayhanul Islam reviewing the book 2016-05-12 18:28:48

_____________________________________ Global Employment Trends for Youth 2015: Scaling up investments in decent jobs for youth Published by International Labour Organization (ILO), 2015 Pag...

Reducing wealth inequality through financing SMEs

Noore Alam Siddiqui 2016-05-11 20:49:40

According to a research conducted recently by Credit Suisse, Oxfam and the Washington Post, global inequality is growing fast and half of the world's wealth now lies in the hands of just 1.0 pe...

Britain\'s enemy within

Harold James in Princeton 2016-05-10 18:34:08

Democracy everywhere is facing serious challenges. The United States is gripped by the most bizarre presidential primary campaign in living memory, with populist outsiders threatening to topple est...

Ensuring access of the poor to justice through legal aid mechanism

Nicholas Biswas 2016-05-09 18:46:10

Bangladesh is a developing country where respect and awareness regarding social justice and human rights are still at a low level. The condition is worse for the underprivileged mainly among the ch...

The best solutions to the most serious health issues that remain in Bangladesh

Bjorn Lomborg 2016-05-08 18:45:35

Over recent decades Bangladesh has seen amazing improvement across many health indicators. Maternal mortality has decreased 75 per cent, infant mortality has halved, and life expectancy has surpass...

Revisiting non-tax revenue and tax policies

Ferdaus Ara Begum 2016-05-08 18:41:28

Non-Tax Revenue (NTR) is the recurring income earned by the government from sources other than taxes. Bangladesh, as a developing country, has been increasingly integrated with the global economy w...

Harnessing the genomics revolution

Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez in Cambridge 2016-05-07 19:28:27

Just 13 years after the successful completion of the Human Genome Project, the power of genomics applications to spur innovation is already becoming apparent. Indeed, though the genomics revolution...

Living with climate change, its impacts

Shihab Sarkar 2016-05-05 19:46:13

The historic Paris Climate Deal was finally signed by 175 member-countries at the United Nations late last month. The event had been eagerly awaited. The ceremony was dubbed a milestone in the batt...

Hectic exercise on dynamics of labour force

Asjadul Kibria 2016-05-05 19:39:37

Labour is the second most important factor of production, as basic economic theory says. Land is the first while capital and entrepreneur are the third and fourth factors. All the four factors are...

Weighing children\'s climate change impact

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2016-05-05 19:31:19

Climate change has begun to change our planet in unprecedented ways. We have already been witnessing increasingly frequent and severe floods, droughts and changes in precipitation as well as heat a...

The USA\'s pre-emptive war in the South China Sea

Muhammad Mahmood 2016-05-04 18:31:39

On the surface it looks like a territorial dispute among littoral states surrounding a sea. The dispute covers mostly some uninhibited islands in the South China Sea. But alongside these islands al...

Growth is good, quality compromised

Asjadul Kibria 2016-05-03 18:40:07

The ongoing debate on the growth rate of current fiscal year is a part of regular policy debate in the country. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) released primary estimation of growth in th...

Technology transfer for economic development

M Jalal Hussain 2016-05-02 17:51:12

Technology and innovation in the fields of industry, trade and commerce have made a significant headway in many developed and developing countries. Some have acquired state-of-the-art technologies...

Remembering RKS: Will the killers be brought to justice?

Md Mijanur Rahman 2016-04-30 19:51:39

On April 23, 2016, this writer's wife received a facebook message from his nephew at Rajshahi University (RU) saying that Professor Rezaul Karim Siddiquee was killed. On learning this sad news,...

Living under the threat of earthquake

Md Sakawat Hossain and Md Sharif Hossain Khan 2016-04-29 19:54:32

An earthquake of 6.9 magnitude occurred near Mawlaik in Myanmar on April 13, 2016 that caused mass panic and damage of a few buildings in the country, specifically in the Chittagong city. This...