Legal support for returnee maids
Many of our migrant women workers end up facing double jeopardy: Once in their place of work going through the mill of a hostile environ; and thence having been driven by exploitation, even traumatised by the host, they arrive back home pauperised.The two sets of circumstances have a cause-and-effect relationship,...
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RMG needs better business model
Following the Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013, the country's readymade garment (RMG) industry experienced a huge watershed in workplace safety and factory remediation. Thanks to the remediation process that took more than four years to bring this remarkable change. Although there has been controversy over the remediation process that...
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Difficult year ahead for global economy
Around the last quarter of 2018, economists across the world maintained that the United States (US)-China trade war and tightening financial conditions would trigger the next downturn, thus dimming the outlook for global growth in 2019. This is in contrast with an optimism expressed unanimously about a robust global economic...
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Pitfalls of loan pricing
A bank is a financial institution, primary target of which is to gain profit by mobilising deposit. As the market is competitive with more banks for a small economy, bankers are now facing challenges to achieve their targets according to their employers' demands. That is why different types of unethical...
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Football should be revived in 2019
Football is one of the most popular sports in the country. It is still played in the rural and urban areas by children and teenagers in almost all seasons. In the 1980s and 1990s, football was the most popular sport in Bangladesh. People from far and near used to mill...
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