Managing farm productivity risks
With close to 9.0 million hectares of available cultivable land, which too is shrinking by around 2,500 hectares annually, thanks mainly to urbanisation, feeding some 175 million mouths is a challenge of miraculous proportions. But the farming community of the country has been successfully meeting the challenge so far. Obviously,...
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Fake note and the honest man's loss
Counterfeiting is a crime that has existed for millennia, but in contemporary Bangladesh it has evolved into one of the most sophisticated forms of financial deception. Detecting the newest generation of fake notes has become extraordinarily difficult, even bordering on impossible for the untrained eye. Professional bankers who handle cash...
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Lingering curse of autocracy
Three and a half decades ago, people of Bangladesh ousted the country's first autocratic regime through a mass uprising that reached its climax during the last three months of 1990. The united stance of all the students' organisations, keeping aside their political rivalry for the time being, on October 10...
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Rising threat of online gambling
A growing number of young people in our country are becoming increasingly trapped in mobile games, online betting and virtual casinos. With easy access to smartphones and the internet, combined with a lack of proper supervision, these harmful activities are spreading rapidly among the youth. Many students are drifting away...
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Bangladesh needs PayPal now
The recent decision by Bangladesh Bank to allow local entrepreneurs to sell their products on global platforms such as Amazon and Alibaba through the B2B2C model marks a transformative moment for the country's digital economy. This policy shift has opened valuable opportunities for small businesses to access foreign markets. Yet...
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