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Md. Mazadul Hoque and Dr. Md Nazmus Sadekin 2021-06-12 00:00:24
Golam Hossain, a handicraft trader ftom Katuli under Tangail Sadar upazila, borrowed Tk 20,000 from a microcredit lender. He was supposed to repay the loan in 46 equal weekly installments of Tk 550 ea...
Zaidi Sattar 2021-06-07 20:07:15
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal just completed one of his primary public responsibilities - presenting the national Budget for fiscal year 2021-22 (FY22), a document that lays out the annual progra...
Md. Touhidul Alam Khan 2021-06-05 00:00:41
World Environment Day gets recognition as the biggest and most significant global celebration that encourages people to protect our natural environment from several challenges our world faces today. T...
Abul Quasem Haider 2021-06-05 00:00:34
China's commercial and cultural influence on the Muslim world, including Bangladesh, is noticeable. Over the past few decades, China has not only been conducting economic activities with Bangladesh, P...
Tay Yi Ting and Utkarsh Dipesh Gupta 2021-06-04 20:57:49
Bangladesh, like many others across the globe, struggled with the number of infections and the new normal of Covid-19-social distancing, virtual meetings, online classes etc.-since reporting their fir...
Md Akhtaruzzaman, Sabri Boubaker and Ahmet Sensoy 2021-06-02 20:45:51
The outbreak of Covid-19 has been declared as a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The outbreak of Covid-19 has shaken the global financial markets. Level 1 mark...
CGTN Insight 2021-05-12 12:17:57
How fast can a government respond to an earthquake? The answer not only affects how many lives might be saved, but also speaks to a government's leadership. China's answer to this question, even 13 y...
Tapash Chandra Paul 2021-05-08 00:00:41
As the Covid-19 global pandemic has mired economies around the world and thrown the future of the global economy into ambiguity, Bangladesh's economy (the ratio of trade volume to GDP was 31.5 per cen...
Naima Farah 2021-05-08 00:00:11
The other day I was reading Jhumpa Lahiri's Pulitzer winning book "Interpreter of Maladies." I always wanted to read this one but could never managed time and kept on making flimsy excuses like today-...
Fahmida Khatun, Mustafizur Rahman, Khondaker Golam Moazzem, and Towfiqul Islam Khan 2021-05-04 21:27:42
Almost after a year since the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, the country is passing through a second wave of the pandemic. The second wave seems to be stronger than the first one b...
M S Siddiqui 2021-05-01 00:00:50
Bangladesh has been combating the Covid-19 pandemic with limited financial resources and poor health infrastructure since March, 2020. The government has imposed several measures to curb the progressi...
Nilratan Halder 2021-05-01 00:00:26
'Buy one get one free', 'up to 50% discount' on this or that occasion, 'now an attractive mug' or a free tub with a packet of detergent (brand) ….these are but a few of the catchwords of aggres...
Tobias Adrian, Rohit Goel, Sheheryar Malik, and Fabio Natalucci 2021-04-26 21:16:05
The rise in long-term US interest rates has become a focus of global macro-financial concerns. The nominal yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury has increased about 70 basis points since the beginni...
UNCTAD 2021-04-24 21:09:26
When the Ever Given megaship blocked traffic in the Suez Canal for almost a week in March, it triggered a new surge in container spot freight rates, which had finally started to settle from the all-ti...
Nilratan Halder 2021-04-24 00:00:18
For a small country like Bangladesh to rank 3rd in the world for producing inland fish is an enviable feat. Not long ago, many indigenous fish species were on the verge of extinction. But different me...
Shafaat Ali Choyon 2021-04-24 00:00:07
We have never seen the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) that we are seeing today. The second wave of Covid has already started to rip through businesses causing havoc. Consider...
Nilratan Halder 2021-04-17 00:00:11
The ongoing lockdown has prompted an exodus of lower-income people from cities, the capital city in particular, on the presumption that it might be extended like the general holiday last time was done...
Mashrur Ahmed Zidane 2021-04-17 00:00:10
Extra curricular activities have always been an important part of a student's life. These ECAs not only help students develop their inner skills or ability but at the same time help them connect with...
Abul Quasem Haider 2021-04-03 00:00:51
The present government has been making its tireless efforts for last several years with a view to building Bangladesh as a developed and resourceful country and it is trying to go forward with various...
Syed A Mamun and Alima Aktar 2021-04-03 00:00:24
A Board of Directors (hereafter, Board) is one of the most important internal corporate governance instruments. The main responsibilities of the Board are to monitor management to minimize any conflic...
Reuters 2021-04-01 17:36:36
Joe Biden will almost certainly be the last US president born as a member of the “silent generation” demographic group who were children during World War Two came of age in an economic boo...
Haradhan Sarker 2021-03-27 20:28:53
Is Bangladesh's economy leaning towards capital intensive production approach? Can we say that output growth is characterised by concomitant employment growth? Indications seem not optimistic. Our Gro...
Tim Maurer and Arthur Nelson 2021-03-20 17:54:30
In February 2016, hackers targeted the central bank of Bangladesh and exploited vulnerabilities in SWIFT, the global financial system’s main electronic payment messaging system, trying to steal...
Md Nazmus Sadekin and Md Mazadul Hoque 2021-03-20 00:00:19
Faruk, a fisherman from Japoria village of Hatia Island under Noakhali district, travels about 300 kilometres to catch fish in the Bay of Bengal. He enjoys the call of the blue water. He forgets about...
Nilratan Halder 2021-03-20 00:00:14
It was a knee-jerk reaction initially when general holiday---a misnomer of lockdown ---was announced for restriction of people's movement. The hard-pressed segments of people were at the greatest disa...
Nilratan Halder 2021-03-13 00:00:48
A nostalgic journey down the memory lane at an advanced age retrieves small joys, wonders and bits and pieces of treasures one thought lost forever. Some of them stand no chance of staging a comeback....
Md. Neyamul Islam 2021-03-13 00:00:44
Political willingness of the governments can significantly contribute to the inclusive growth in South Asia. Strong regional connectivity is central in ensuring food security, job creation, better nut...
Nilratan Halder 2021-03-06 00:00:26
The city's ragpickers are both a miserable and queer lot. Miserable, because the trash they collect are not only worthless in terms of economic value but also carry in most cases the risk of infecting...
Nasir Hossain 2021-03-06 00:00:06
Spring is here! The mercury is rising bringing sunnier skies. New flowers are blooming. Nature starts shining the brightest - promising something that will rejuvenate the soul. Along with the breathta...
Davide Furceri, Jonathan D Ostry, and Anthony CK Tan 2021-03-03 20:37:07
Asian economies are performing better than expected. In the IMF's latest World Economic Outlook Update, we upgraded our growth estimate for 2020 by 0.7 percentage point from our previous forecast in O...
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