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Digital initiative to promote RMG good governance

Digital initiative to promote RMG good governance

Syed Rabius Shams and Md. Mofazzol Karim 2020-07-10 23:40:18

The ready-made garment (RMG) industry in Bangladesh is the home of the second-largest apparel seller in the world. RMG is the primary export-oriented industrial sector of Bangladesh and it looks forwa...

Synergy between agent banking and MFS

Synergy between agent banking and MFS

Jakirul Islam 2020-07-10 23:38:41

Bangladesh boasts of a number of globally reputed digital financial service (DFS) providers. Some banks in Bangladesh have progressively developed alternative digital channels for financial inclusion....

Ensuing recession and major economic downturns

Ensuing recession and major economic downturns

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2020-07-10 23:36:52

Although fundamentally being considered as a global health crisis, the Coronavirus Pandemic is supposed to lead towards a massive economic downturn which according to many experts can overshadow most...

Is it Public Limited Company or Limited Public Company?

Is it Public Limited Company or Limited Public Company?

Haradhan Sarker 2020-07-10 21:12:44

Global average trend indicates that corporate shareholding tends to increasingly get concentrated disowning the legal rights of the general public. Hopefully, Bangladesh seems not yet so infected with...

A tribute to Poet Mashuk Chowdhury

A tribute to Poet Mashuk Chowdhury

Helal Uddin Ahmed 2020-07-04 00:00:00

An outstanding poet of the country, first appearing on the literary scene in the decade of 1960s, Poet Mashuk Chowdhury (1947-2020) recently passed away to the other side of the rainbow. He was born i...

Coronavirus will cost global tourism at least $1.2 trillion

Coronavirus will cost global tourism at least $1.2 trillion

-- 2020-07-03 21:39:11

The world's tourism sector could lose at least $1.2 trillion, or 1.50 per cent of the global gross domestic product (GDP), having been placed at a standstill for nearly four months due to the coronavi...

Reopening Asia: How the right policies can help economic recovery

Reopening Asia: How the right policies can help economic recovery

Chang Yong Rhee 2020-07-01 21:50:24

For the first time in living memory, Asia's growth is expected to contract by 1.60 per cent-a downgrade to the April projection of zero growth. While Asia's economic growth in the first quarter of 202...

Covid-19: Bangladesh budget deficit for FY21 and external balance

Covid-19: Bangladesh budget deficit for FY21 and external balance

Muhammad Mahmood 2020-06-27 23:00:46

Bangladesh has been going through a period of continuous budget deficits for a considerable period of time. Available data indicate the budget deficit is hovering around 5  per cent of  GDP...

COVID-19: A plea for a dispensation on war footing

COVID-19: A plea for a dispensation on war footing

DR MOHAMMED FARASHUDDIN 2020-06-20 20:57:48

Congratulations to the government, it’s Head in particular, for fighting the corona menace with all the might and gutsy steps. As the scale of testing escalates, the identification of the corona...

A budget amid Covid-19 pandemic

A budget amid Covid-19 pandemic

M Nurul Alam 2020-06-20 00:00:00

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, MP proposed allocation of a significant amount of fund in the budget for the fiscal year 2020-21 to face the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Tk 100 billi...

Covid-19: Economic challenges facing Bangladesh   

Covid-19: Economic challenges facing Bangladesh  

Muhammad Mahmood   2020-06-13 22:09:47

It now appears that Bangladesh is facing a major economic crisis in the making caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. After a brief reopening of the economy, the country now has reverted to  'hard' loc...

Effects of the pandemic on the education sector in Bangladesh

Effects of the pandemic on the education sector in Bangladesh

Mahtab Uddin 2020-06-13 21:17:27

As of 1 June 2020, globally, 1.2 billion learners (68.0 per cent of the world's total enrolled learners) were affected due to the education institute closure in 144 countries, according to  ...

The challenge  of eliminating  child labour

The challenge of eliminating child labour

Emran Emon 2020-06-13 00:00:00

Today's child is the future of tomorrow.  Children are the artisans of building the country. Children constitute 45 per cent of the total population of Bangladesh. But they are crushed on the thr...

Drawing up tourism recovery plan

Drawing up tourism recovery plan

Md. Ziaul Haque Howlader 2020-06-13 00:00:00

The sudden outbreak of Covid-19 has plunged the tourism industry of Bangladesh into a worst-ever evolving challenge. Like elsewhere of the world, the virus has already taken a great toll on the slow-p...

Extending GSP for post-LDC Bangladesh

Extending GSP for post-LDC Bangladesh

Md Mazadul Hoque 2020-06-06 00:00:00

Bangladesh, as a least developed country, enjoys a lot of facilities provided by the European Union (EU). These facilities came following the request made by our government to be promoted economically...

What the virus means for Chinese economy

What the virus means for Chinese economy

Prottoya Chowdhury 2020-06-06 00:00:00

The gradual slowdown of manufacturing behemoth China, the spike in the values of inflation-hedged assets such as gold, and central banks around the world adopting lax monetary policies were not enough...

COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy framework in three infographics

COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy framework in three infographics

-- 2020-06-05 21:44:24

Key aspects behind the Covid-19 exit strategy for Bangladesh   Where to Open Each area to be categorised into four risk categories (or phases) with varying degrees of openness; need to const...

Merger or amalgamation to avoid liquidation of ailing NBFIs

Merger or amalgamation to avoid liquidation of ailing NBFIs

Md. Asiful Huq   2020-05-29 22:09:58

Major non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) in the country are operating with vulnerable financial health for long putting the sector to serious threats. Operational loss, poor credit quality, very...

Charting a course for economic renewal

Charting a course for economic renewal

QAZI KHOLIQUZZAMAN AHMAD, Economist and Chairman, Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) 2020-05-10 15:20:39

The Government of Bangladesh has allowed partial opening of the economy with effect from early May, while the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading faster than has been the case hitherto. Broadly, the issues...

Bangladesh progress report on SDGs   

Bangladesh progress report on SDGs  

Shamsul Alam   2020-05-07 22:40:39

The concluding part of a three-part essay on SDGs & Bangladesh The first Bangladesh progress report on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation was prepared in 2018 following a rigor...

Scientific reality indicates otherwise

Scientific reality indicates otherwise

Tarik Adnan Moon, Nur Muhammad Shafiullah, Adib Hasan and  Sanzeed Anwar 2020-05-06 21:34:48

On April 27, different news outlets, including some of the leading newspapers in the country, quoted Singapore University of Technology and Design's (SUTD) Data-Driven Innovation Lab claiming 97.0 per...

Economic activity must pick up amid virus battle

Economic activity must pick up amid virus battle

Dr Mohammed Farashuddin 2020-05-04 19:47:48

Like in other parts of the world coronavirus is spreading its ugly destruction in Bangladesh as well. The number of people infected has crossed the ten thousand mark and the cruel death has snatch...

How businesses can build resilience   

How businesses can build resilience  

Natalie Blyth   2020-04-28 21:23:18

A bee sting nearly killed me. My passion for beekeeping therefore comes as a surprise to many. Through tending their hives, I observe nature's complex system of interdependency, adaptability and effic...

How to face real economic fallout of Covid-19

How to face real economic fallout of Covid-19

Dennis J. Snower in Berlin 2020-04-11 21:38:43

Governments around the world are pursuing extremely expansive monetary and fiscal policies to combat the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. But such largesse is appropriate for an old-style...

Inter-active engagement between great powers

Inter-active engagement between great powers

Muhammad Zamir 2020-03-29 21:09:09

Strategic analysts have been following the carefully organised efforts being undertaken by great powers in their efforts to underline their influence within the international paradigm. This is being v...

Safeguarding the economy during COVID-19 pandemic

Safeguarding the economy during COVID-19 pandemic

Md. Rakib Hasan Rabbi 2020-03-27 20:36:29

While governments around the world are struggling to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting human suffering, the global economy is on a downward spiral moving towards a full-blown recession....

Genocide : What the World Ignored

Genocide : What the World Ignored

Mokerrom Hossain 2020-03-25 20:51:40

Please don't give me any news of death What matters with the numbers .... A mother lost a son A brother lost a brother ... Mankind lost mankind ....        ...

The role of press during Liberation War

The role of press during Liberation War

Helal Uddin Ahmed 2020-03-25 20:43:36

The newspapers of the then East Pakistan were quite vocal in favour of emancipation of the Bangalis during the non-cooperation movement launched by the Awami League in March 1971 against the Pakistani...

How RHD developed digitalisation of procurements

How RHD developed digitalisation of procurements

Kazi Sayeda Momtaz 2020-03-23 20:29:15

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is responsible for management of national, regional and district road network of bridges under the Bangladesh government and construction and maintenance of maj...

Dark Web: A cyber heaven of criminal activity

Dark Web: A cyber heaven of criminal activity

Md Hafez 2020-03-20 00:00:00

The Internet refers to the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It has brought massive revolution in our communica...