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Shrinking farm land

All is not well in the agricultural sector. In sync with continuous decline in its contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP), per capita farm land holding has been shrinking for the last few decades. The rate of reduction in per-capita farm holding has got pace in recent years. The...

Risks in rising private borrowing from abroad

Even a few years back, Bangladesh's private sector hardly knew how to go for foreign borrowings for their business needs. As such, they did never ask for permission from Bangladesh Bank (BB), the regulator. But things started getting changed only a few years back. And since then, more and more...

Falling trend in manpower export: Tasks ahead

With steep decline in manpower export to the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia, the country's remittance earnings from the non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) abroad are likely to fall in the coming months. Bangladesh's overseas employment, according to an official estimate, dropped by more than 24 per cent in the first nine...

High migration cost does not help economy

Migration cost from Bangladesh to other countries is high, when compared with neighbouring countries. This trend is quite bad for the economy. According to a World Bank study, Bangladeshis pay the highest for migration and often it takes between two to three years for them to get back their initial...

Public transport system needs improvement

Dhaka's traffic seems to be getting slowed down with the passing of every single day. Transport experts say that the average speed of buses in the city should be around 30 kilometres per hour. But regrettably in Dhaka, the average speed of buses hover at 10 kilometres/hour during the day...

When gaming turns out to be an addiction

Playing games on Smartphone or on the personal computer may sound rather innocuous. But, is that how it really is? Online and mobile games are very much addicting. It is popularly said that children often addicted to games. But adults are equally addicted to online and mobile games.Over the past...