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Overcoming challenges of financing SDGs

Overcoming challenges of financing SDGs

Shamsul Alam 2018-01-27 21:46:02

It is pertinent to shed light on the challenges regarding the proper implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Bangladesh. One of the main challenges in achieving SDGs is making impro...

Much more than a life story

Much more than a life story

Zaidi Sattar 2018-01-26 12:00:00

To be sure, posterity will still judge Prof. Nurul Islam as the architect of Bangladesh's initial strategy of economic development: first, in recovering from the devastation left from the war of indep...

Nurul Islam: The accidental economist

Nurul Islam: The accidental economist

Zaidi Sattar 2018-01-25 12:00:00

Professor Nurul Islam, the accidental economist, as he deems himself to be, leaves yet another lasting legacy for Bangladeshi economists and professionals, in his book -- An Odyssey: The Journey of My...

From Kafkaesque celebration of loneliness to the British Ministry of Loneliness

From Kafkaesque celebration of loneliness to the British Ministry of Loneliness

Shihab Sarkar 2018-01-25 12:00:00

Conceiving of a government department dealing with loneliness would have come naturally with Franz Kafka or Albert Camus. Writers belonging to their genre have delved deep into the abyss of detachment...

Youth labour market around the world: An overview

Youth labour market around the world: An overview

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2018-01-25 09:13:32

The world of work for today's youths is quite different from that experienced by their parents. On average, young people are now better educated than their previous generations. They are thus emba...

Addressing governance issues of the telecom industry

Addressing governance issues of the telecom industry

M Rokonuzzaman 2018-01-24 09:25:51

Often-cited success criteria of market-led reform of the telecom sector in Bangladesh are: teledensity, Internet penetration and tax revenue. There is no denying the fact that there has been a phenome...

Simplifying the process of tax refunds

Simplifying the process of tax refunds

Masih Malik Chowdhury 2018-01-23 08:35:02

The collection of income tax takes place through various means and modes of law enunciated in the Income Tax Ordinance 1984. Every year, while presenting budget in parliament for the next fiscal, the...

Social media in election campaign   

Social media in election campaign  

M Alamgir Hossain     2018-01-22 10:37:50

Social media is comparatively a new form of communication around the world. This has rapidly grown in importance as a forum for political activism in its diverse forms. Social media platforms, such a...

Iran protests highlight issues of good governance and accountability

Iran protests highlight issues of good governance and accountability

Muhammad Zamir 2018-01-21 12:00:00

Different views have been expressed by analysts as to why instability in the form of protests struck several cities and townships in Iran in the last week of December and then continued for a few days...

Iran: The people have spoken up

Iran: The people have spoken up

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2018-01-20 08:31:03

Sudden protests in the second largest Iranian city of Mashhad in late December triggered agitation among people in other parts of the country. Protests erupted when people could not withdraw their dep...

A single book that can change your life in 2018!

A single book that can change your life in 2018!

Khandaker Zia Hasan 2018-01-19 08:35:04

Andrew Carnegie, a very well-known American industrialist, business magnate and philanthropist led the expansion of American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of t...

Cleansing minds of pollution

Cleansing minds of pollution

Shihab Sarkar 2018-01-18 08:56:55

Creative pursuits are activities that most of the artists prefer to carry out in private. Be one is an author, a painter or a composer, he or she prefers solitude to crowds. This is what has been happ...

Trump blames Obama for postponing his UK visit!

Trump blames Obama for postponing his UK visit!

M. Serajul Islam 2018-01-17 08:54:23

Who would have believed that Washington would become anything like what it is today, politically speaking that is? No world leader or country now takes the president of the United States with the same...

Modernising the bonded warehouse system

Modernising the bonded warehouse system

Md Matiur Rahman 2018-01-16 12:43:38

Bangladesh has made significant achievements in attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The focus is now on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs are: overcoming pov...

Thousands still dying at sea en route to Europe

Thousands still dying at sea en route to Europe

Tharanga Yakupitiyage 2018-01-16 08:38:29

Amid concerns that 160 people may have drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean this week alone, the UN refugee agency have urged countries to offer more resettlement places. Though the in...

Curbing bad loans: Streamlining the banking system

Curbing bad loans: Streamlining the banking system

Soniya Akter Lima 2018-01-16 08:13:45

Banks are central to the monetary system of a country. They play a vital role in the economy by disbursing credit to business entities, and at the same time, they collect the surplus capital from over...

Resuscitating Africa's healthcare

Resuscitating Africa's healthcare

Samuel Kargbo 2018-01-13 12:00:00

In late October, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) confirmed what many had long suspected: millions of dollars donated to fight the Ebola outbreaks in Guinea...

India today and Nehru's secularism

India today and Nehru's secularism

M Serajul Islam 2018-01-12 12:00:00

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was like a principal character of a great historical novel for my generation that went to the university in the 1960s, the protagonist who had all the characteristics of such a...

Preservation of ruins: The climate factor

Preservation of ruins: The climate factor

Shihab Sarkar 2018-01-11 08:42:41

Given its geophysical condition, Bangladesh was not supposed to be conducive to preservation of ancient structures. Its neighbouring Indian state of Bihar, and also Nepal, have played host to the grow...

Islamic banking: Meeting the global standard

Islamic banking: Meeting the global standard

Chowdhury Shahed Akbar 2018-01-10 12:00:00

In Islamic banks, depositors who deposit for sharing profit or loss with banks are known as IAHs (investment account holders). The IAHs typically expect their funds to be managed and invested in such...

The paradox of growth and inequality

The paradox of growth and inequality

Md Shahadat Hossain 2018-01-10 09:49:14

The term "economic development" typically refers to the improvement in various indicators such as literacy rate, life expectancy, poverty rate, etc. In respect of all the indicators, Bangladesh econom...

Making state-owned banks viable, allowing them to charge fees for services to the government

Making state-owned banks viable, allowing them to charge fees for services to the government

Masih Malik Chowdhury 2018-01-09 07:47:36

The private sector has been exploring in recent months overseas funds at competitive rates but at low cost. These funds are available at LIBOR plus a minimal rate of interest. Despite vulnerability to...

Acquiring technology to increase competitiveness

Acquiring technology to increase competitiveness

M S Siddiqui 2018-01-08 07:03:01

Most enterprises in the country have no Research & Development (R&D) division and there is also no enthusiasm in acquiring technology through various ways and means from multinational enterpri...

Nepal's Left alliance creates new paradigm

Nepal's Left alliance creates new paradigm

Muhammad Zamir 2018-01-07 12:00:00

Election results in Nepal in December, 2017 took by surprise political analysts and election observers alike. An alliance of former Maoist fighters and the Communist Party in Nepal routed the Nepali C...

Billionaires, fiscal paradise, the world's debt, and the victims

Billionaires, fiscal paradise, the world's debt, and the victims

Roberto Savio in Rome 2018-01-06 12:00:00

Among Bloomberg's many profitable activities is a convenient Bloomberg Billionaires Index that has just published its findings for 2017. It covers only the 500 richest people, and it proudly announces...

Potable water crisis in southwest coastal belt

Potable water crisis in southwest coastal belt

Mohammed Norul Alam Raju 2018-01-05 09:33:14

Aleya Begum, a 25-year-old woman, lives in Sutarkhali Union of Dacope Upzazila, Khulna. Waking up before dawn every day, Aleya Begum walks to a water plant near Sutarkhali Union Parishad, five kilomet...

"Nothing but lies and deceit from Pakistan," tweets Trump

"Nothing but lies and deceit from Pakistan," tweets Trump

M. Serajul Islam 2018-01-05 08:07:23

President Donald Trump's first tweet of 2018 was music to Indian ears but a bombshell to Pakistani ears. He targeted Pakistan for fighting the Taliban targeting the Pakistan government but not the Tal...

Boarding the branding bandwagon: A make-or-break year

Boarding the branding bandwagon: A make-or-break year

Imtiaz A. Hussain 2018-01-04 09:05:57

Branding can happen naturally, through comparative advantage, or by the marketing and advertising skills typically taught in business schools. Eye-catching sceneries depict the natural type, Banglades...

The conundrum of keeping a permanent address

The conundrum of keeping a permanent address

Shihab Sarkar   2018-01-04 06:52:10

It's misnomer to term a piece of land as one's own. As history of countries has shown, lands continue to change hands even if successive generations are capable of possessing a landed plot for even ov...

Critical issues to watch in 2018

Critical issues to watch in 2018

Martin Khor in Penang, Malaysia 2018-01-03 12:00:00

Another new year has dawned, and on a world facing serious disruption on many fronts.  What are the trends and issues to watch out for in 2018? One obvious answer is to anticipate how Donald Tru...