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M. A. Taslim 2017-02-28 19:35:30
Transparency International (TI) has been publishing its annual flagship report Corruption Perception Index since 1995. The index was estimated for only 41 countries in the first year from the polls of...
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As more than 95 per cent of the country is covered by already deployed 30,000 towers, the policy should encourage access of smaller operators as well as new entrants to this resource at negligible ma...
Subhash Kumar Sengupta and Abdullah-Al-Mamun 2017-02-23 20:46:37
Most recently Muktobuddhi Prokasana, a leading publishing house in the country, launched a book of outstanding merit authored by noted academician Professor Abul Barkat. The book entitled Political Ec...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-02-23 20:24:24
Perhaps no other recognised language in the modern world ever meets the same pitiable fate as Bangla. The language is spoken by over 210 million people in Bangladesh, India's West Bengal, Tripura...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-02-18 18:51:48
The multilateral trading system as envisioned by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) now faces more uncertainty than ever before. The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiation launched in 2001 has m...
Sakib Bin Amin, Muntasir Murshed and Saanjaana Rahman 2017-02-17 19:32:37
The exceptional growth of global tourism over the last 6 decades is one of the most remarkable economic phenomena of the 21st century. It has emerged from being a relatively small scale activity into...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-02-16 20:14:24
The vastness and neat arrangement of the Ekushey Book Fair this year has surely made the book lovers happy. At the main fair opposite the earlier venue at the Bangla Academy compound, dust no longer i...
Md. Joynal Abdin 2017-02-15 19:33:15
Economic integration is a process of harmonising trade and investment-related policies and reducing/withdrawing tariff and other non-tariff trade and investment barriers between two or more countries....
Shah Md Ahsan Habib 2017-02-14 19:55:43
Producing Renewable Energy (RE) and improving energy efficiency (EE) are two key areas for energy sustainability and policymakers of both developed and developing countries are increasingly focusing o...
M Rokonuzzaman 2017-02-12 20:01:04
With continued erosion of competitiveness of jute mills in Bangladesh, it has been news worthy update that the government has taken a large project to upgrade production technology of jute mills under...
Jamaluddin Ahmed 2017-02-11 20:15:42
Good corporate governance should provide proper incentives for the board and management to pursue objectives that are in the interests of the company and its shareholders and should facilitate effecti...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-02-11 19:53:27
Donald Trump is on the saddle and his party controls both Houses of the Congress. He can now push through his tax plan. His tax package has apparently two major components - a cut in corporate tax rat...
Syed Jamaluddin 2017-02-10 19:13:27
Despite 11 ultimatums, the Ministry of Industries has not succeeded in shifting tanneries from Hazaribagh. The last deadline has expired but raw hides are entering Hazaribagh as usual. Leather is bei...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-02-09 19:50:20
Inequality is one of the key challenges of our time. Numerous studies conclude that in 2015 almost half of all household wealth was owned by 1 per cent of the global population (Crédit Suisse, 2015) a...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-02-09 19:48:15
Kristine Carlsson, a Swedish poet visiting Dhaka, was found engrossed in poetry as he listened to the poems being read out on the dais. The event was the annual open-air session of poetry for 2017. Un...
Jamaluddin Ahmed 2017-02-08 20:03:07
The decision to demutualise is initially undertaken because of several external and internal factors related to stock exchanges. While it is important to look at the external factors that may drive st...
M Rokonuzzaman 2017-02-05 20:30:37
Developing nations, like Bangladesh, have been increasing investment in technology usages-primarily in the capital goods. In the globally connective economies, competition force is driving the usages...
Mohammad Ishaq Dar 2017-02-03 20:44:24
THE BURDEN OF PUBLIC EXTERNAL DEBT HAS FALLEN: Some analysts are often misquoting the level of public external debt in media as US$73 billion. They lump together public debt with private debt, which i...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-02-02 20:05:30
Education and gender equality are the key concerns in the new Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda adopted at the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly in September 2015. The Education 2030 Fra...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-02-02 20:02:50
Printed books still enjoy a buoyant market in New York, Washington DC, London or Paris. In the 21st century, bookstores in many cities have their avid clientele. The news may surprise lots of doomsaye...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-02-02 19:41:25
The Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), the first agreement negotiated and adopted by the members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 22 years since its inception, is now set to come into force....
Mohammad Ishaq Dar 2017-02-01 21:08:46
Economic indicators are always open to interpretation and debate. Some analyze these numbers objectively whereas others fall prey to their biases. In the latter case, analysts gather and present only...
M. SYEDUZZAMAN 2017-02-01 21:06:32
SYEDUZZAMAN: Yes, President Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as you know, was assassinated by a faction of the army. That was a very sad day for Bangladesh because--well, it's a sad and long st...
M. Syeduzzaman 2017-01-31 20:46:16
LEWIS: How long did you continue as the Secretary for aid coordination? SYEDUZZAMAN: Well, I continued until end of '75, throughout the period of the first government [of Bangladesh]. And in Fe...
M. SYEDUZZAMAN 2017-01-30 20:48:40
SYEDUZZAMAN: The Pakistan government had also suspended payment of debt because their balance of payments position was also very precarious. And I remember that the Pakistan government had obtained t...
Muhammad Shafiullah and Faridul Islam 2017-01-29 20:31:58
The rising demand for vegetables led to a rise in price, which allowed farmers to get higher returns, compared to low-incentive rice. Rise in profitability contributed to the boom. The United Nations...
Mahfuz Kabir 2017-01-28 20:46:48
Bangladesh has been widely recognised to be one of the top climate-vulnerable countries for quite some time. According to the latest Global Climate Risk Index 2017, Bangladesh is one of the most expos...
Muhammad Shafiullah and Faridul Islam 2017-01-28 20:11:28
With its developing economy, Bangladesh is heavily reliant on its agricultural sector. In the old days, the sector was major employer, income generator, and importantly the largest contributor to the...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-01-26 20:22:09
Festivities centring wedding events are universal. They are placed among the most widely participated socio-familial events effusing pure jubilation. Sociologists consider marriage to be one of the an...
Md. Abdul Hannan 2017-01-26 20:04:16
As vowed, the US President Donald Trump scrapped Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal by an executive order within a couple of days of his inauguration. The much-hyped TPP have had ripples long back i...
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