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Edgy countdown to Book Fair 2021

Edgy countdown to Book Fair 2021

Shihab Sarkar 2020-08-27 21:11:32

Like seen in many other sectors, the novel coronavirus pandemic has left its debilitating impact also on the country's socio-cultural activities. Due to relentless involvement of scores of social acti...

What Covid-19 movement restrictions mean for nomadic pastoralists in the Sahel

What Covid-19 movement restrictions mean for nomadic pastoralists in the Sahel

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)   2020-08-27 00:00:32

Ould Ne Salem, a nomadic pastoralist from southeast Mauritania, has been stuck in the country since the outbreak of Covid-19 earlier this year. Like many other nomadic herders in the region, Ould Ne...

Closing digital divide in BD's online education

Closing digital divide in BD's online education

Md. Ashraful Goni   2020-08-26 21:38:56

The current pandemic has brought us to a new reality in the culture of education - learning online,which has been a major trendin the past four months. Online classestranscend geographical boundary,...

Risk of memory loss and cognitive decline due to Covid-19

Risk of memory loss and cognitive decline due to Covid-19

Natalie C Tronson 2020-08-24 23:36:25

It is now clear that many patients suffering from Covid-19 exhibit neurological symptoms, from loss of smell, to delirium, to an increased risk of stroke. There are also longer-lasting consequences fo...

New realignment in the Arab World: UAE and Israel normalise relations

New realignment in the Arab World: UAE and Israel normalise relations

Abdur Rahman 2020-08-24 21:46:44

In a stunning development the United Arab Emirates and Israel declared on Thursday, August 13 to end decades of hostility and begin a new chapter in their relationship. Both announced recognition of e...

Quickly getting food to the hungry is vital while battling covid-19

Quickly getting food to the hungry is vital while battling covid-19

Stefania Dina 2020-08-23 21:31:47

It has become increasingly clear that the problem of food insecurity needs special attention when addressing the impact of Covid-19. The suspension of public transportation, disrupted local and inter...

Coronavirus: Measured optimism from Dhaka slums?

Coronavirus: Measured optimism from Dhaka slums?

Mohammad Riad Uddin, Jobaida Behtarin, Syed Basher, and Salim Rashid 2020-08-22 21:36:42

In early March 2020, when Bangladesh took Covid-19 as a serious threat to public health, many thought the virus would wreak havoc on the millions of slum dwellers of Bangladesh. Covid-19 presented its...

Covid-19 and international trade: The underlying trends

Covid-19 and international trade: The underlying trends

Muhammad Mahmood   2020-08-22 21:04:32

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused the global economy its worst contraction in almost a century. Current forecasts portray a very gloomy  picture for 2020 with  a 13 to 32 per cent decline i...

Rehabilitation challenges of injured garment factory workers

Rehabilitation challenges of injured garment factory workers

Hasnat M Alamgir   2020-08-22 21:01:39

The sequence of garment factory fires and building collapses provoked widespread calls domestically and internationally to improve workplace health and safety conditions in Bangladesh which is a key...

Income inequality: When does it matter?

Income inequality: When does it matter?

Haradhan Sarker 2020-08-21 20:43:50

The issue of inequality occupies a dominant place in development discourse and debate pervading across the globe. Reportedly, the economy of Bangladesh is infected by inequality malaise. Not only crit...

Kamala Harris . . . and stories of America's vice presidency

Kamala Harris . . . and stories of America's vice presidency

Syed Badrul Ahsan 2020-08-20 23:29:44

Many Indians in particular and South Asians in general are quite enthused by Joe Biden's vice presidential pick in the United States. The child of Jamaican and Indian parents, Senator Kamala Harris is...

The artistic uniqueness of Murtaja Baseer

The artistic uniqueness of Murtaja Baseer

Shihab Sarkar 2020-08-20 21:16:15

Late artist Murtaja Baseer (1932-2020) passed an eventful creative life. Few artists are fortunate enough to be able to lead their lives in a dignified freedom like that of Baseer. Son of Dr Muhammad...

Coronavirus: The policy response

Coronavirus: The policy response

Hasnat Abdul Hye   2020-08-19 21:53:23

The pandemic of Coronavirus overwhelmed almost all countries in the world about the same time, taking them by storm. Having no parallel in terms of rapid spread, scope and severity, it became a wate...

How to count humans

How to count humans

Joel E Cohen   2020-08-18 20:46:00

New research published this July in The Lancet forecasts that continued growth "through the century is no longer the most likely trajectory for the world's population." Rather, the global population...

Can reduced grid power tariff attract captive power users?

Can reduced grid power tariff attract captive power users?

Mushfiqur Rahman 2020-08-18 20:42:22

The government has been considering to reduce power tariff for industrial consumers. Power Division of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources has reviewed the current power consumption...

Estimation of GDP in Bangladesh needs a reform

Estimation of GDP in Bangladesh needs a reform

-- 2020-08-17 21:31:48

Over the past decade, growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been at the centre of attention of economic policy discourse in Bangladesh. However, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has al...

Skills development in RMG sector

Skills development in RMG sector

Sabbir Rahman Khan 2020-08-16 21:44:45

Building on the foundation of low wage rate, our RMG sector has been labeled by foreign buyers as a low cost hub for high volume product sourcing. This is quite ironical that we are proudly selling ou...

Covid-19: Rethinking Economics

Covid-19: Rethinking Economics

Muhammad Mahmood   2020-08-15 19:54:00

The economic outlook for the Bangladesh and other economies around the world is now being driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. The economic contraction caused by the pandemic is quite staggering. The sobe...

Bangabandhu's indestructible dream

Bangabandhu's indestructible dream

Mokerrom Hossain 2020-08-14 22:27:33

August 15 has become a national mourning day of Bangladesh and it will remain so forever. This day will be solemnly observed across the country. Forty five years ago, a young group of military personn...

Putting flood recurrence in a wider context

Putting flood recurrence in a wider context

Shihab Sarkar 2020-08-13 20:54:32

The country passed through the ordeals of devastating floods in consecutive years in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Geologically, Bangladesh has been a flood-prone country since ancient times. Followin...

The evolving political dynamics within the US

The evolving political dynamics within the US

Muhammad Zamir 2020-08-09 21:34:10

President Donald Trump, about three months away from the next US Presidential elections in November, is creating havoc for himself and his Republican Party through controversial comments and decisions...

EU economic rescue plan: An attempt at debt mutualisation

EU economic rescue plan: An attempt at debt mutualisation

Muhammad Mahmood 2020-08-08 21:53:13

In the very early hours of Tuesday, July 21, 27 member countries of the European Union after four days of  very acrimonious negotiations agreed to  an economic rescue plan to help member cou...

Covid-19 in an Urban World

Covid-19 in an Urban World

-- 2020-08-08 21:19:45

The remarkable growth of cities in recent decades has intensified a number of humanity's most pressing challenges. It has also presented many of our greatest opportunities to protect people, prosperit...

Preparing for an unknown world

Preparing for an unknown world

Era Dabla-Norris, Vitor Gaspar and Kalpana Kochhar 2020-08-06 21:39:20

Once Covid-19 abates, we will be reminded of how everything changed, of the world that was. But the unfolding crisis contains profound lessons for the future. When international delegates met at Br...

Is the monetary policy adequate?

Is the monetary policy adequate?

Hasnat Abdul Hye   2020-08-06 21:36:28

Conventionally, monetary policy in Bangladesh has played a secondary role, complementing the fiscal policy as embodied in annual budget. It now appears, as an irony of history, that among the scarc...

Understanding money creation process: RM to MS

Understanding money creation process: RM to MS

Md Habibur Rahman 2020-08-06 21:15:55

Money is the lifeblood of an economy. It moves into various economic steams to keep the economy alive. Depending on the degree of liquidibility, the money can be defined as M0, M1, M2, M3, M4, and so...

Reviewing existing energy policy

Reviewing existing energy policy

Sakib Bin Amin 2020-08-05 20:21:50

The fundamental role of electricity in shaping the global economy is widely acknowledged nowadays. No country has managed to develop beyond a subsistence economy without ensuring that a large section...

Performance of SOCBs during 2019 with single-digit interest rate

Performance of SOCBs during 2019 with single-digit interest rate

Zaid Bakht 2020-08-04 22:02:52

The audited accounts of different commercial banks for 2019 started coming out in the newspapers in recent weeks. Usually, these are published earlier in the year during April-May. Dislocations relate...

Sensitive European agreement reached

Sensitive European agreement reached

Muhammad Zamir 2020-08-04 21:54:45

Most of the world thought that the EU leaders would be unable to reach a compromise with regard to finding a recovery solution in the post-Coronavirus world. However, such a recovery deal was reached...

Abdullah M Hasan: The curtain down on a long career

Abdullah M Hasan: The curtain down on a long career

Anisur Rahman 2020-08-04 21:48:22

It was an early spring evening. The sun was setting behind the trees on the bank of the river Shitalakkhya on the opposite side of Palash in Narsingdi. We all gathered on the riverbank on the way back...