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Can BD maintain its competitiveness with RCEP countries?

Can BD maintain its competitiveness with RCEP countries?

Khondaker Golam Moazzem 2020-11-22 20:49:09

The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on November 15 took many by surprise. Trade pundits are excited about this agreement.  Firstly because, countries involved in...

The shape of economic recovery

The shape of economic recovery

Rizwanul Islam 2020-11-19 21:22:06

The global economy seems to be coming out of the deep recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Major developed countries, e.g., USA, UK, France and Germany attained positive GDP growth in the third...

Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines -- massive challenge in a polarised world

Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines -- massive challenge in a polarised world

Delwar Hossain   2020-11-16 21:16:44

When Covid-19 first emerged as a global pandemic, people around the world expected to see the virus defeated through the advent of a new vaccine. Even though inventing methods of inoculation against n...

Rethinking financing of SDGs: Private  sector to the rescue

Rethinking financing of SDGs: Private sector to the rescue

Mohammad Nazmul Avi Hossain 2020-11-16 21:13:54

Bangladesh has only ten more years to achieve the targets of sustainable development goals followed by its robust success in attaining crucial milestones in millennium development goals. In business a...

Overcoming financial inclusion challenges in South Asia

Overcoming financial inclusion challenges in South Asia

Muhammad Shahadat Hossain Siddiquee 2020-11-04 21:27:15

Financial inclusion is the degree and ease of access to financial services by individuals and firms within an economy. Ease of access to financial resources can act as a major tool for promoting econo...

Pandemic hitting migrants the hardest

Pandemic hitting migrants the hardest

Narayan Das and Md Shakil Ahmed   2020-11-04 20:49:39

Migration plays a vital role in reducing unemployment and poverty in Bangladesh. The remittances sent by the migrants have been growing over time, mainly because of the increasing number of migrants....

Covid-19 -- exposing vulnerabilities in RMG sector

Covid-19 -- exposing vulnerabilities in RMG sector

Khondaker Golam Moazzem, Tamim Ahmed, ASM Shamim Alam Shibly and Taslima Taznur 2020-11-03 21:03:43

A policy brief titled 'The Crisis in the World of Work in View of Covid-19' was published in July 2020 by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) comm...

Behavioural insights to guide Covid-19 containment strategies

Behavioural insights to guide Covid-19 containment strategies

Minhaj Mahmud 2020-11-01 21:30:14

The main purpose of this article is to discuss how research findings can inform policies/strategies for Covid-19 containment in the context of a developing country like Bangladesh. Primarily, insights...

Uniform policy guidelines to smoothen Bangladesh's LDC graduation

Uniform policy guidelines to smoothen Bangladesh's LDC graduation

Khondaker Golam Moazzem   2020-10-27 20:18:56

The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) of the United Nation's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is going for the second triennial review of Bangladesh's performance for LDC graduation during Fe...

Low coverage of stimulus packages hinders post-pandemic recovery; small firms suffer

Low coverage of stimulus packages hinders post-pandemic recovery; small firms suffer

Selim Raihan, Mahtab Uddin, Md Tuhin Ahmed, Jonaed and Fabiha Bushra Khan 2020-10-26 16:36:27

The global pandemic has slowed down economic activities across the world. Bangladesh is also experiencing an economic downturn fuelled by the crisis. During such economic downturn, a close monitoring...

Regional cooperation essential to implementing the SDGs in Asia

Regional cooperation essential to implementing the SDGs in Asia

Mustafizur Rahman, Towfiqul Islam Khan and Md. Zafar Sadique 2020-10-25 20:47:30

The 2030 agenda with its 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 targets aims to achieve universal economic, social, and environmental progress through a collaborative partnership. This study...

Covid-19 exposes fault lines of Bangladesh's healthcare sector

Covid-19 exposes fault lines of Bangladesh's healthcare sector

Sheikh Rafi Ahmed, Tanjim-Ul-Islam, and Nahaly Nafisa Khan 2020-10-24 21:35:22

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is making policymakers around the world rethink the healthcare systems of their respective countries. There have been growing concerns over how to make the healthcare sys...

Supportive environment a prerequisite for post-pandemic inclusive development

Supportive environment a prerequisite for post-pandemic inclusive development

Hossain Zillur Rahman 2020-10-23 21:46:05

Covid-19 has not just put the economy in a momentary crisis; it has forced the people to rethink the entire paradigm of progress. The issue of post-pandemic recovery calls for inclusive development of...

Role of mobile phones in household welfare, women’s empowerment

Role of mobile phones in household welfare, women’s empowerment

Monzur Hossain and Hussain Samad 2020-10-19 18:45:21

Bangladesh has witnessed the advent of mobile phones and their swift rise in popularity among people for the last two decades. It is undoubtedly a versatile device which is said to have transformed th...

The coronavirus pandemic hits female workers the worst

The coronavirus pandemic hits female workers the worst

Narayan Das 2020-10-17 21:10:36

To combat the novel coronavirus, many countries, including Bangladesh, imposed country-wide lockdown. The economy of Bangladesh was under the lockdown from late March to May 2020, when most economic a...

Diplomatic offensive crucial to reaping benefits: Analysts

Diplomatic offensive crucial to reaping benefits: Analysts

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2020-01-25 13:12:49

Bangladesh should step up its diplomatic efforts to reap the dividend from the verdict of top UN court, foreign relations analysts say. While the order by the International Court of Justice, or ICJ,...

Onion price manipulation: NSI identifies 16 traders, 13 commission agents

Onion price manipulation: NSI identifies 16 traders, 13 commission agents

REZAUL KARIM 2019-11-30 10:29:15

The National Security Intelligence (NSI), the country's major civilian intelligence agency, has identified some 29 businesses who were allegedly behind the recent rise in onion prices in the country....

Four die in Mymensingh road mishap

Four die in Mymensingh road mishap

-- 2018-02-20 14:37:40

Four people have been killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Mymensingh-Kishoreganj highway at Ram Gopalpur area of Gouripur upazila in Mymen...

New pension provision hits upsetting headwind

New pension provision hits upsetting headwind

Jasim Uddin Haroon 2017-09-23 12:00:00

A newly introduced pension system executed from July now faces an upsetting blow amid opposition from 'influential' employees to part payout at retirement, sources said.   A government-approve...

Floating seedbeds gaining popularity in Sirajganj

Floating seedbeds gaining popularity in Sirajganj

Roving Correspondent 2017-09-10 01:30:04

SIRAJGANJ, Sept 09: Floating seedbed is gaining popularity in the district. Hundreds of trained peasants of the flood prone area have set up seedbeds on some hectares of inundated lands during the sea...