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FTA with US: Its prospects and implications

The United States of America (USA) is the single largest export market for Bangladeshi products. But Bangladeshi products are yet to get any preferential market access to the US market, let alone Duty-Free Quota-Free (DFQF) access. Rather, the US administration suspended the Generalised System of Preference (GSP) facility in 2013....

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UN stands by UNRWA: America shuts the schoolhouse door on refugees

No international institution has done as much for children's schooling on the ground for as long as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). And yet, no international organisation has suffered an overnight funding cut as devastating as the one UNRWA now...

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