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Anne O Krueger 2020-09-24 21:19:32
Since World War II, the global economy has performed beyond the wildest dreams of its post-war architects, yielding unprecedented gains in health, education, living standards, poverty reduction, and w...
Tapash Chandra Paul 2020-09-18 22:23:33
In Bangladesh, during the nationwide general holiday (shutdown) period, the businesses in various sectors were forced to temporarily pull down their shutters to stem the spread of the deadly virus. Fo...
Md Moslehuddin Sadi Khan 2020-09-18 22:21:57
Buying a property in Bangladesh is considered a major achievement in life. Whenever somebody buys a flat, they are filled with joy and pride. However, the real estate industry in our country is filled...
Jan Hoffmann, Hassiba Benamara, Daniel Hopp, and Luisa Rodriguez 2020-09-12 21:58:48
Official statistics on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and trade growth are produced with delay, gaps and time lags. When navigating through crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, access to near real-time...
UNCTAD 2020-09-09 20:29:42
The pandemic struck at a particularly distressing time for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Even before it hit, forecasts for the Palestinian economy in 2020 and 2021 were already bleak, with...
Piergiuseppe Fortunato 2020-09-07 20:46:43
The Covid-19 crisis has amplified profound fault lines in the functioning of global value chains (GVCs) and exposed the fragility of a model characterised by high interdependencies between leading fir...
World Trade Organization 2020-09-06 20:19:21
International trade and investment have always relied on the cross-border mobility of individuals. Transporting goods across borders involves humans, and will do so for the foreseeable future despite...
Raihan M Chowdhury 2020-09-04 23:56:30
The Google Flood Forecasting Initiative has partnered with the Bangladesh Water Development Board to bring Google's warnings and services to Bangladesh, which experiences more flooding than any other...
Md Mazadul Hoque 2020-09-04 23:55:16
It is learnt that there are half a dozen Asia-based regional platforms. The purpose of these platforms is to enhance solidarity among member countries. Besides, to keep peace and bring economic prospe...
Haradhan Sarker 2020-09-04 20:27:36
Undeniably, there has been phenomenal progress in terms of agricultural growth and diversification. This can be attributed to farmers' untiring and uncomfortable toil, and the government-provided high...
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Coping with change is something we’ve all been having to confront over the last months due to the current pandemic. Some people flow easily with changes, even welcoming the new opportunities tha...
Professor Bashir Ahmed 2020-08-28 23:44:28
The Rohingya ethnic people living in Myanmar had crossed into neighbouring Bangladesh over decades due to persecution. Bangladesh is apparently hosting more than a million Rohingya people and this hig...
Mizanur Rahman 2020-08-28 23:43:20
Centre for Development Innovation and Practices (CDIP) is a mid-size microfinance NGO, established in 1995 in a remote village with a personal donation of the founder, Muhammad Yahiya. Currently, CDIP...
Matteo Lanzafame and Irfan A Qureshi 2020-08-25 20:56:27
The Covid-19 pandemic is projected to have wide-ranging impact on economies across the region, as it disrupts supply chains, tourism, and employment. Some emerging markets are especially vulnerable to...
Helal Uddin Ahmed 2020-08-21 22:24:07
Son of the legendary singer Probal Chowdhury of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra fame, Dr. Manash Ranjan Chowdhury is a versatile talent from the port-city Chattogram. He has already stamped indelible impr...
Rabiul Alam Munna 2020-08-21 22:22:30
Due to the Covid-19 crisis, we cannot speak fluently, we cannot laugh loudly, we cannot meet and greet our families, friends and others, and we cannot travel frequently. We are in jail. We are craving...
Bashir Ahmed 2020-08-15 00:00:48
"Friendship to all, malice to none" is what Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman articulated in the 1972 Constitution and it is still very much relevant and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is maintaining di...
AKM Fakhrul Alam 2020-08-15 00:00:41
Despite outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic import of oils and fats in Bangladesh during the first 6 months of 2020 witnessed an upward trend by 4.82 per cent compared to the corresponding period of 201...
Enayetullah Khan 2020-08-15 00:00:22
In the dawn of August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made one of his final phone calls to his military secretary, the then Colonel Jamil Uddin Ahmad. He had been attacked, Bangabandhu tol...
Martin Mühleisen, Tryggvi Gudmundsson and Hélène Poirson Ward 2020-08-10 21:55:14
The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emerging market economies far exceeded that of the global financial crisis. Unlike previous crises, the response has been decisive just like in advanced...
Md Mazadul Hoque 2020-07-24 23:57:46
In the wake of novel coronavirus, Bangladesh's economy may land in a dire situation in coming days. Economic activity is not being noticed to take place to a great extent. The Covid-19-affected econom...
Abu Farhad 2020-07-24 23:56:47
The rural economy had been vibrating until recently, the standard of living in the rural areas improved, road communications including internal roads and other indicators also improved dramatically. F...
Kazi Iqbal, Md. Nahid Ferdous Pabon, Tanveer Mahmood and Mohammad Rezoanul Hoque 2020-07-24 22:37:40
There are about 10 million micro, small and medium sized enterprises in Bangladesh, accounting for about one-fourth of the total output of the economy. In rural areas, the small businesses have been p...
Suborna Barua and Bipasha Barua 2020-07-23 21:16:00
The Covid-19 pandemic poses a significant threat to the sustainability of financial institutions, particularly banks. It would be worse in developing and emerging economies, where financial systems ar...
Manzoor Hussain 2020-07-18 00:02:27
The Covid-19 pandemic is creating profound panic, fear and anxiety among the human race. The situation is undoubtedly tragic and heart-breaking. Covid19 has taken and is still taking huge numbers of l...
Tareq Rafi Bhuiyan 2020-07-18 00:01:29
Covid-19 has definitely shaken the humankind to its core. We have not seen or imagined anything like it and will probably not see anything like it in our lifetime. The impact of it is so large that it...
Òscar Jordà, Sanjay R Singh and Alan M Taylor 2020-07-14 22:22:15
The Covid-19 pandemic's toll on economic activity in recent months is only the beginning of the story. While the rapid and unprecedented collapse of production, trade, and employment may be reversed a...
Syed Mortuza Asif Ehsan and Salamat Ali 2020-07-12 21:21:29
World Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and trade suffered significantly as a result of the 2008 global financial crisis. There was some recovery during 2009-2012 but the world's export orientation has bee...
Syed Mortuza Asif Ehsan and Salamat Ali 2020-07-11 22:32:10
In addition to the several reasons for the global trade slowdown discussed earlier (First-part of the article published in the FE on July 10, 2020), one major structural factor associated with this an...
Rubaba Dowla 2020-07-11 00:00:23
Startups are often considered as the change agents that inspire markets to evolve. And with their resourceful and resilient ability to quickly adapt, many are looking to this sector to play a cr...
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