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Md Mazadul Hoque 2020-11-21 00:00:45
The country's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are not in a good state at all amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The deadly virus caused disruption to their production and sales. Nearly eight million entr...
Md. Toufique Hossain 2020-11-21 00:00:37
Currently the Covid-19 pandemic has hit livelihood hardest. This terrible epidemic has not only claimed lives but also disrupted livelihood of marginal people. According to a joint statement by ILO, F...
Reuters 2020-11-19 18:14:13
Global regulators have held off approving the Boeing 737 MAX despite a decision by the US Federal Aviation Administration to end a 20-month grounding, highlighting changes in the global regulatory pec...
Maria Dzhanan 2020-11-16 05:08:31
With sixty-one per cent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the Asia Pacific reporting a fall in sales during the months of lockdown, and further waves and phased re-openings in place, there is a...
Syed A. Mamun 2020-11-14 00:00:51
"Once upon a Time, there was no Time (watch) but there was Accounting". When a professor stated this statement in accounting class of our undergraduate program in University of Dhaka to make us unders...
Sayed A.S. Sunny 2020-11-14 00:00:26
Since August 2017 over 700,000 Rohingya refugees arrived in Cox's Bazar from Myanmar's Rakhine State and settled in refugee camps. More than a half of them are women and girls, 55 per cent are childre...
Manos Antoninis 2020-11-13 22:29:34
At the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, participants promised to advance the rights of women and girls everywhere. Part of that promise, set out in the historic Beijing Declaration...
Tapash Chandra Paul 2020-11-07 00:00:50
The Covid-19 pandemic has wrecked havoc throughout this world and Bangladesh has not been spared either. All the sectors including health, communication, and economy have been affected by this deadly...
Md. Shafiul Islam Rayhan 2020-11-07 00:00:33
The global Covid-19 pandemic plunged all kinds of businesses into a severe economic downturn. It is very normal that if there is an epidemic, there will be an economic recession. The impact of this ec...
Nazneen Ahmed 2020-11-06 21:13:10
Border haat is 'a rough-and-ready market' allowing 'local people to trade in locally-grown agricultural and manufactured' items along the border. The core idea behind the border haat is to provide a f...
Ahnaf Ahmed 2020-11-05 13:07:29
For a Football fanatic, at times, positioning and movement off-the-ball is as beautiful as a player going on a mesmerising run to score a sumptuous solo goal. The optimal reward – and one which...
Hasnat M Alamgir 2020-10-28 20:35:18
Pharmaceutical imports into Bangladesh have been steadily on the rise over the last several years. In fact, in contrast to its export value of US$129.95 million, Bangladesh imported pharmaceuticals va...
Dimitris Drakopoulos, Rohit Goel, Fabio Natalucci and Evan Papageorgiou 2020-10-27 21:19:12
After the unprecedented hit to economic activity in emerging market economies from the Covid-19 pandemic, their economic output is projected to shrink by 3.30 per cent in 2020. Central banks across em...
Jeffrey D Sachs 2020-10-27 20:21:09
The ferocity of the 2020 presidential election in the United States is not about Donald Trump per se, but about what he represents: the racist structures of power that have persisted in America for ce...
Md Mazadul Hoque 2020-10-24 00:00:40
Financial or current account in an economy indicates the state of total export earnings along with inward foreign remittance and the import payments. Ultimately, the current account surplus helps the...
Garrett Ilg 2020-10-24 00:00:00
The global pandemic has changed nearly everything for chief marketing officers (CMOs), forcing them to scramble as consumers shift even more to online shopping. Meanwhile, CEOs are pressuring their ma...
Vitor Gaspar, Paulo Medas, John Ralyea, and Elif Ture 2020-10-19 20:30:17
The Covid-19 crisis has devastated people's lives, jobs, and businesses. Governments have taken forceful measures to cushion the blow, totalling a staggering $12 trillion globally. These lifelines hav...
Md. Mashiur Rahman 2020-10-17 21:34:27
Presently the world is facing a difficult time because of coronavirus. The virus first broke out in China and then spread across the world like a rapid fire. A large number of people have died across...
Gita Gopinath 2020-10-14 20:04:08
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread with over 1.0 million lives tragically lost so far. Living with the novel coronavirus has been a challenge like no other, but the world is adapting. As a resu...
SM Sajjad Hossain 2020-10-09 22:36:55
Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest is remote and well known to the world for big cats' presence in the wild. It is also the world's largest mangrove forest. Every year, thousands of visitors from around...
Jeffry Frieden 2020-10-09 20:20:03
The Covid-19 pandemic strikingly illustrates the intersection of politics, economics, and other considerations. Public health experts have long warned that the world was likely to face a major pandemi...
WTO 2020-10-07 21:11:58
The World Trade Organization (WTO) now forecasts a 9.20 per cent decline in the volume of world merchandise trade for 2020, followed by a 7.20 per cent rise in 2021 (Chart 1). These estimates ar...
Kavaljit Singh 2020-10-05 20:18:49
India has become the world's new hotspot for the Covid-19 pandemic as infection cases have surged in recent weeks. On September 22, the total number of confirmed cases surged past 5.6 million. If the...
Arko Saha 2020-10-05 11:38:03
As silly as it looks at first, you may find it quite amusing how Bangladesh played an interesting role in revolutionising modern cricket. How? Last year the world witnessed one of the most fascinatin...
Tapash Chandra Paul 2020-10-03 22:08:01
COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented devastation globally. UNDP has identified it as the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two. Globally, there have been approximately 30 milli...
M S Siddiqui 2020-10-03 22:06:12
Educational institutions in Bangladesh give a negative impression about business and encourage students to do government jobs. The family and society also have little respect for the business professi...
Bazlul Khondker and Muhammad Moshiur Rahman 2020-10-02 20:29:02
Almost all socio-economic impact assessments of COVID 19 used the economy-wide modelling approach (such SAM and CGE supplemented with employment matrix and poverty module) to examine effects on: (i) G...
UNCTAD 2020-09-27 20:38:11
The world should tackle hyper-inequality to build back a better global economy from the devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development...
Md Mazadul Hoque 2020-09-25 22:08:04
The inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) had not improved in Bangladesh to a great extent. Inadequate infrastructure coupled with bureaucratic complexities and a wide range of corruption kept inv...
Md Ziaul Haque Howlader 2020-09-25 22:07:17
This year the theme of the World Tourism Day as designated by the UNWTO 'Tourism and Rural Development' is very appropriate for the rural-dominating countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Rural...
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