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Outward remittance from investment: A legal perspective

Outward remittance from investment: A legal perspective

Mohammad Taqi Yasir and Anam Hossain 2019-11-24 21:07:31

Bangladesh is currently experiencing impressive progress in terms of economic growth, which is accelerated to a great extent by foreign investments from all over the globe. Investors from countries li...

Shadow banking serves 'social welfare' function in the economy

Shadow banking serves 'social welfare' function in the economy

Shah Ahsan Habib 2019-11-24 21:04:54

The growth of the shadow banking is prompted by the popularity of financial innovations, attractiveness of deregulation and emergent competition with non-bank entities. In several instances, shadow ba...

Palestine issue: Washington enfeebles the two-state solution

Palestine issue: Washington enfeebles the two-state solution

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2019-11-23 21:09:48

It is no surprising that the Trump Administration has now declared that Israeli settlements in the West Bank do not violate international law. Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State declared on Monday th...

The Bolivian coup: A case of lithium regime change

The Bolivian coup: A case of lithium regime change

Muhammad Mahmood 2019-11-23 20:34:16

Bolivia is in a state of crisis since President Evo Morales has been ousted in a military coup on November 10. In fact, he was forced by the military to resign and that forced resignation was a coup -...

Shadow banking: Growing trends and concerns

Shadow banking: Growing trends and concerns

Shah Ahsan Habib 2019-11-23 20:25:44

There are evidences that shadow banking activities have been increasing at high rates in both developed and developing countries. These activities may include certain sectors and activities of banks a...

Shadow banks fend for themselves

Shadow banks fend for themselves

Shah Ahsan Habib 2019-11-22 20:45:49

Although the focus of regulation on shadow banking activities emerged in the wake of its alleged role in the recent global crisis, shadow banking system is not a new development. It is well recognise...

Evo Morales: Hero or villain?

Evo Morales: Hero or villain?

Jan Lundius 2019-11-22 20:41:40

To be president in a country like Bolivia might be like a precarious act performed by a tightrope-dancer between "the Devil and the deep blue sea". After 23 years as Bolivia's President, Evo Morales f...

What next for unconventional monetary policies?

What next for unconventional monetary policies?

Stephen Grenville in Sydney, Australia   2019-11-21 21:16:43

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the central bankers' club in Basel, Switzerland, recently conducted an in-depth evaluation of the unconventional monetary policies that have become the no...

The case for herbal medicines

The case for herbal medicines

Shihab Sarkar 2019-11-21 20:56:42

In the highly industrialised regions of the world, most of the people are said to be hypochondriac. Their obsession with health, sickness and medicinal remedies is sharply at variance with the people...

Involving students in research-based educational planning

Involving students in research-based educational planning

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-11-21 20:51:57

Students are the central stakeholder in any education system. However, they are often excluded from the very conversations in educational planning that determine their lives and their futures. These c...

Moral hazard in financial sector

Moral hazard in financial sector

Hasnat Abdul Hye   2019-11-21 20:40:52

An offender can be punished with a view to having a deterrent effect both for the person concern and for others, giving an example. But when a judge is lenient and hands down a token punishment for se...

The changing face of India

The changing face of India

Md. Matiul Islam 2019-11-20 21:56:29

My visit to New Delhi with my family members from September 30 to October 10, 2019 for medical reasons coincided with the official visit of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from October 03 to 06, 2019...

Honing innate human skills to slow down robot invasion

Honing innate human skills to slow down robot invasion

M. Rokonuzzaman   2019-11-19 20:40:32

At the dawn of the 21st century, we are caught in the dichotomy between the disastrous and benign effects of artificially intelligent machines-robots.  One group has been raising the alarm of the...

Dangers and questions of the Zuckerberg era

Dangers and questions of the Zuckerberg era

Roberto Savio 2019-11-18 22:45:14

There is clearly a need for regulation to reduce the negative aspects of the Internet and to reinforce positive values. The owners of social media platforms are now under increased scrutiny so they ha...

The fall of the Berlin Wall and social democracy

The fall of the Berlin Wall and social democracy

Daron Acemoglu in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 2019-11-17 21:37:23

It was already clear 30 years ago that the fall of the Berlin Wall would change everything. But precisely what that change will mean for world politics in the twenty-first century still remains to be...

India opts out RCEP, marches to its own tune

India opts out RCEP, marches to its own tune

Muhammad Mahmood 2019-11-16 21:07:13

The Summit of the world's largest proposed free trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was held in Bangkok on November 04. RCEP comprises 16 Asian nations which includ...

UNESCO at 74: An overview of its laudable progress

UNESCO at 74: An overview of its laudable progress

Quazi Faruque Ahmed 2019-11-16 21:04:08

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is now 74 years old. The specialised agency of the United Nations came into existence on November 16, in London in 1945. The i...

CCD: A new dimension in development sphere

CCD: A new dimension in development sphere

ASM Marjan Nur 2019-11-15 20:39:26

Climate change and development are closely inter-related. Developing countries, particularly low-income countries, are at the greatest risk of climatic hazards for their development gaps and reliance...

Architecture continues to change with time

Architecture continues to change with time

Shihab Sarkar 2019-11-14 21:35:31

In the past, few of the emergent building owners would bother about architectural designs of their structures. They were seen being dependent wholly on their contractors in this regard. Many used to g...

Gender issue in development work

Gender issue in development work

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-11-14 21:29:46

Gender issue is considered a critical element in achieving decent work for all women and men, in order to effect social and institutional changes that lead to sustainable development with equity and g...

Aacademia-industry gap: Surfing uneven turf

Aacademia-industry gap: Surfing uneven turf

Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-11-14 20:31:04

Dr. M. Rokunzzaman's timely attention to any nuptial between a civilised society's two key pillars, the intellect and industry, drives the next question: can the generic outcomes he identifies apply...

India's Seven Sisters: Making a win-win connectivity deal

India's Seven Sisters: Making a win-win connectivity deal

Md. Joynal Abdin   2019-11-13 20:18:17

Seven north-eastern states of India -- Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur?, Meghalaya?, Mizoram?, Nagaland? and Tripura -- share an international border of 5,182 kilometres with neighbouring countrie...

Scorecard improves land e-mutation efficiency

Scorecard improves land e-mutation efficiency

Farria Naeem 2019-11-13 20:10:35

Using transformative potential of technology to ensure sustainable improvements in public service delivery for citizens is a crucial pathway to realise aspirations of 'Digital Bangladesh'. Technologic...

Stock market: Digitalising IPO process

Stock market: Digitalising IPO process

Nironjan Roy 2019-11-12 21:37:57

One of the common barriers in bringing more initial public offerings (IPOs) in the market is the inordinate delay in processing new issues. It is learnt that on an average about six to nine months i...

Overcoming the challenge of quality culture

Overcoming the challenge of quality culture

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Quality refers to a set of characteristics of a product or service that defines its ability to consistently meet or exceed customer expectation at an affordable cost -- for the benefit both of the cus...

ASEAN partnership getting bigger

ASEAN partnership getting bigger

Kamal Uddin Ahmed 2019-11-12 20:45:48

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong  stole the limelight at the 35th Summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).  Both...

Stock market: Allaying fear of potential entrepreneurs

Stock market: Allaying fear of potential entrepreneurs

Nironjan Roy 2019-11-11 21:39:41

In capitalistic economy stock market is considered the mirror of economic condition of a country as economic boom and recession are reflected through bull and bear condition of the stock market. Sto...

The 'third person in the room': Taming technology

The 'third person in the room': Taming technology

Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-11-11 21:18:02

How often these days do we hear a parent say, "My son/daughter will be a Scientist, Engineer, Computer specialist, or a Business graduate in the best university"? Pushing the point, how often do we fi...

Climate change, disaster management and human rights

Climate change, disaster management and human rights

Muhammad Zamir   2019-11-11 21:01:25

In the fourth week of September this year, a UN panel of scientists associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)   issued a report on future impact of climate chang...

Mismatch between import liberalisation and export competitiveness

Mismatch between import liberalisation and export competitiveness

MS Siddiqui 2019-11-09 20:11:35

After liberation in 1971, Bangladesh adopted an industrial policy pursuing an import-substituting industrialisation. Its key objectives were to safeguard the country's infant industries, reduce balanc...