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Tapping solar energy: An option to fossil fuel

Tapping solar energy: An option to fossil fuel

Saleh Akram 2016-12-23 19:27:30

Energy security of Bangladesh is threatened by lack of domestic energy resources, high dependence on imported fuels and poor energy infrastructure. The country has to look for alternative energy sourc...

Textbook scenario at school level

Textbook scenario at school level

Shihab Sarkar 2016-12-22 21:22:25

Like in the last few years, textbooks are set to be ready by this December for distributing those among the school students. The government conducts the programme, in which students receive the new bo...

Hydrocarbon prospect in deep offshore areas of Bangladesh

Hydrocarbon prospect in deep offshore areas of Bangladesh

Rezaul Kabir 2016-12-21 19:27:14

Bengal delta is one of the active deltas in the world and Bangladesh is located within this deltaic region. Every year, numerous rivers flowing through Bangladesh carry a huge load of sediment and dep...

Addressing financial literacy: Strengthening efficiency of financial markets

Addressing financial literacy: Strengthening efficiency of financial markets

Shah Md Ahsan Habib  2016-12-19 22:44:01

Considering the priorities and challenges of Bangladesh banking sector, training and capacity development programmes demand attention in some critical areas.  In Bangladesh, availability of alternativ...

Economic models and Startup culture

Economic models and Startup culture

Shah Kamal Sohail 2016-12-18 20:15:30

We have been exposed to two major economic models since the beginning of this century - Capitalism and Communism. Communism always intended to confront Capitalism by eliminating the latter's major...

Remembering a grandfather in the month of victory

Remembering a grandfather in the month of victory

Helal Uddin Ahmed 2016-12-12 18:18:51

He was my maternal grandfather, the grand old man of Feni - 'Jalal Sir'. All through my life, he had been my idol, my guru. Tall, slim and upright, and sporting a white pajama-panjabi and cap,...

Rural empowerment and SDF

Rural empowerment and SDF

M I Chowdhury 2016-12-09 18:34:07

With a view to contributing to the government's poverty alleviation programme, Social Development Foundation (SDF) was established as an autonomous non-profit organisation in 2000 by the governmen...

Competition Commission: Emerging challenges

Competition Commission: Emerging challenges

Asjadul Kibria 2016-12-08 20:09:29

As the world commemorated the World Competition Day on December 05, 2016, it is critical to note that four years after the enactment of the Competition Act-2012, the country has finally got its implem...

Youths\' involvement in conservation of nature

Youths\' involvement in conservation of nature

-- 2016-12-08 18:37:44

  We do not know exactly how Hitchcock would have viewed the current trend in Bangladesh of making nests for wild birds. The great movie-maker became famous for his scary film The Birds. Thanks to...

Women\'s leadership in politics, development

Women\'s leadership in politics, development

-- 2016-12-08 18:26:37

The Impact of Women's Political Leadership on Democracy and Development by Farah Deeba Chowdhury, Margaret Wilson, Colleen Lowe Morna and Mukayi Makaya Magarangom Published by the Commonwe...

China moves into Latin America in a big way

China moves into Latin America in a big way

Sayed Kamaluddin 2016-12-05 20:16:20

Latin America is not included in China's One Belt, One Road initiative, but Beijing seems to have surprised many observers by moving closer to the region to develop industrialisation and job creat...

Rural imagination dominates Bangladeshi art

Rural imagination dominates Bangladeshi art

Syed Manzoorul Islam 2016-12-04 21:00:24

The cities in Indian subcontinent emerged in the last four to six hundred years ago. Their emergence was necessitated by the need of the conquerors/rulers to expand their political and economic power....

Money laundering -- the most serious problem banking industry faces

Money laundering -- the most serious problem banking industry faces

Shah Md Ahsan Habib 2016-12-03 20:19:29

As in other developed and developing countries, financial crime is a growing concern for the policy makers, banks and other stakeholders of the financial sector of Bangladesh. A recent study by Bangla...

EU should observe WTO rules without reservations

EU should observe WTO rules without reservations

Zhong Sheng 2016-12-02 19:16:41

The European Union (EU) recently drew global attention for its reluctance to fulfill its obligations under Article 15 of the Protocol on China's Accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). It...

Myanmar\'s metamorphosis and Rohingya persecution

Myanmar\'s metamorphosis and Rohingya persecution

Shihab Sarkar 2016-12-01 20:27:08

Myanmar might have to brace for yet another spate of global condemnation given the continued influx of its Rohingya citizens into Bangladesh. Dhaka, too, has started feeling the heat of the fallout re...

Sustainable development through education

Sustainable development through education

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2016-12-01 20:23:10

Planet Earth is in dire straits. Natural resources have been overexploited. A significant loss of biodiversity is occurring, while a massive rise in carbon levels is leading to climate change and asso...

Climate change: COP yet to address loss and damage

Climate change: COP yet to address loss and damage

Shaila Mahmud 2016-11-30 20:28:54

Over the last few decades, rise in climatic hazards, associated with slow onset and extreme weather events, warranted implementation of the 'Loss and Damage' (L&D) along with adaptation and mi...

How did pollsters get the 2016 US election so wrong?

How did pollsters get the 2016 US election so wrong?

Zahedur Rahman Arman 2016-11-29 20:57:38

The results of the 2016 presidential election came as a surprise to everyone who had been following election polling. The day before the election, most pollsters and statistical models had pegged that...

Youth civic engagement: Challenges and opportunities

Youth civic engagement: Challenges and opportunities

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2016-11-24 20:48:32

There is a saying: 'History is written by the old, but made by the young'. Young people are the most strong, self-confident, creative and productive guiding force of any nation. Given an enabl...

Financial statements: The role of credit analysts

Financial statements: The role of credit analysts

Dipok Kumar Roy 2016-11-21 20:47:46

A credit analyst generally analyses audited financial statements and recommends eligibility of loan. The analyst usually picks up figures from the statements without caring to understand, review and i...

Private equity in Bangladesh: A road yet not traversed

Private equity in Bangladesh: A road yet not traversed

-- 2016-11-16 20:30:04

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) passed the “Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (Alternative Investment) Rules, 2015” in mid-2015. The registration and regulation of fun...

Political gamble in US polls

Political gamble in US polls

Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA 2016-11-12 21:01:03

Forecast by pollsters and news media failed to click as Republican candidate Donald Trump defeated Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton in the presidential election on November 08 of 2016. She was the fir...

Bangladesh villages in 21st century - a flawed spectacle

Bangladesh villages in 21st century - a flawed spectacle

-- 2016-11-10 21:47:11

  Dinendra Kumar Roy, famous author of Pallichitra, a detailed portrait of villages in the early 20th century Bengal, would have been much hurt seeing the plight of these ancient dwelling places in...

Protecting displaced, migrant children

Protecting displaced, migrant children

-- 2016-11-10 21:31:39

We must not forget that refugee and migrant children do not bear any responsibility for the bombs and bullets, the gang violence, persecution, the shrivelled crops and low family wages driving them fr...

Bangladesh economy: A detailed view

Bangladesh economy: A detailed view

-- 2016-11-10 21:27:00

Books written on Bangladesh business and economy in English do not offer a comfortable and satisfactory picture. In this respect, the author deserves plaudits for his sincere effort, writes Raihan M C...

SMEs: Learning lessons from global experience

SMEs: Learning lessons from global experience

Ferdaus Ara Begum 2016-11-09 21:21:05

Vietnam is one of the countries which have performed well and extended policy support to the small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) for flourishing. According to a plan to support enterprises unti...

The cost of doing business increasing

The cost of doing business increasing

Ferdaus Ara Begum 2016-11-08 21:06:32

The cost of doing business index of 2016 put Bangladesh in the lowest rung of ranking. In 2015, the country's position was 172, which slipped to 174 in 2016 out of 189 economies.  The ranking of B...

SMEs face business start-up challenges

SMEs face business start-up challenges

Ferdaus Ara Begum 2016-11-07 21:17:55

As per cost of doing business index, Bangladesh slipped 6.0 points from the year 2015 in case of starting a business, while  many countries have been moving ahead much faster by simplifying business s...

Reflections on a trip to the Sundarbans

Reflections on a trip to the Sundarbans

Helal Uddin Ahmed 2016-11-06 20:41:39

Located in the southwestern tip of Bangladesh about 320 kilometres southwest of capital Dhaka, Sundarbans has an area of around 10,000 square kilometres, 60 per cent of which fall inside Bangladesh an...

Chinese loans and the risk of debt distress

Chinese loans and the risk of debt distress

Zarif Iftekhar Rasul 2016-11-03 20:38:05

Over the past few weeks, the visit of the Chinese President has been a topic generating much discussion at various levels. While the bulk of the discussion centred on the $24-billion financial assista...