"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite...
Shihab Sarkar | 2011-12-21 00:00:00
Shihab SarkarAn appalling photograph, published in a Dhaka English daily recently, shows a large cargo-filled vessel cruising by one of the many rivers flowing through the normally tranquil Sundarbans. The photograph, and our frenetic attempts, laced with hype and hoopla,...
Khalilur Rahman | 2011-12-21 00:00:00
Khalilur RahmanMartin Bormann was a powerful civil bureaucrat who, as a private secretary to Adolf Hitler, Dictator of German Reich had wielded enormous authority on the administration during the whole period of Second World War. He could do it because...
"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite...
It was the 19th February in the year 1980. As we stepped out of the Tripoli International Airport it was a bright sunny afternoon. We, rather a big group of teachers from Bangladesh, have come to the oil-rich North African...
Khalilur Rahman | 2011-12-21 00:00:00
Khalilur RahmanMartin Bormann was a powerful civil bureaucrat who, as a private secretary to Adolf Hitler, Dictator of German Reich had wielded enormous authority on the administration during the whole period of Second World War. He could do it because...
"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite...
of a dead end, writes Iqbal Habib******The development of Dhaka city as a post-independence capital has been different from its 350 years of development prior to its liberation. Capital-centric development of the administrative, business, education and health sectors has led...
Continued from page 10There is another kind of interference the Bangladesh government has to contend with, and this comes from some members of the diplomatic corps stationed in Dhaka. While western diplomats in Dhaka enjoy more privileges than those enjoyed...
On the occasion of two hundredth anniversary of French Revolution, the great Chinese revolutionary leader Chou en Lai was asked to assess the historical significance of the earth shattering events in 1789. He replied, "Too soon to tell" (Schama, 1989,...
When Bangladesh emerged from its 1971 liberation war desperately poor, overpopulated, and ravaged by acute food shortages and famines, it was designated as a 'test case of development'. Four decades after, Bangladesh still remains a poor country, but it can...
Soon after emerging from the devastating effects of the global economic recession, the world economy once again is entering into another unsettling and challenging environment/period due to the rapidly unfolding Euro debt crisis. As Bangladesh is getting integrated with the...
We may have made progress in more ways than one but seem to have gone back in the overall development of the society. Contradictions in any society are universal. But here it seems to be too wide and open ended....
It is undoubtedly a reality that a firm's financial performance is not sufficient for enhancing its effectiveness in today's highly competitive business world. As an ornament of sound corporate governance, the term 'CSR' (Corporate Social Responsibility) has, in the recent...
On 31st October this year, world population reached seven billion. This is an important landmark in the history of mankind as this huge number of people vindicates both a success as well as an impending challenge for a sustainable world....
anagement Guru Shiv Khera says that good character is summation of good habits. Habits are formed by continuous repetition of good practices. Good practices are described in books of knowledge, scriptures and the same are passed on from one generation...
The large magnitude of the terms of trade shock primarily owing to oil prices along with the acceleration of food prices, especially staple food grains of wheat and rice, have imposed a tremendous burden on South Asian countries, particularly on...
Whoever thought that a day would come when middle-aged people, like this scribe, would be considered almost redundant in society not because they have graduated to become senior citizens, but for their inability to appreciate and emulate the technology that...
conventional explanation that considers The world economy is undergoing widespread changes and many countries are facing huge challenges in coping with these changes brought about by liberalisation and globalisation. One of the useful ways of meeting these challenges is to...
Bangladesh has one of the largest primary education systems in the world with 81,434 primary schools in 11 different categories. The government has had some achievement in ensuring better access to basic education. Still, an estimated 17.6 million children, aged...
Like most other central banks, employment creation has fallen off the direct agenda of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) although problems like unemployment and poverty are taking centre stage as critical issues of development in the country. In Bangladesh, almost all...
K.M.S.A. KaiserTalk of talk-shows, roundtable dialogues, articles, editorials, post editorials, gossips and what have you, the most likely topic encountered (no crossfire for sure) would be one or a cocktail from the vast gamut of burning public issues like galloping...
"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite...
Bangladesh economy was decimated by one-fifth during the liberation war in 1971. But it turned around, albeit at a slower pace, in the aftermath of the bloody war. Growth, however, has been steady and stable over the last decade, even...
K.M.S.A. KaiserTalk of talk-shows, roundtable dialogues, articles, editorials, post editorials, gossips and what have you, the most likely topic encountered (no crossfire for sure) would be one or a cocktail from the vast gamut of burning public issues like galloping...
"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite...
One of the first disappointing lessons a diplomat of a country like Bangladesh learns in his job is how little the concept of sovereign equality means in conducting foreign relations. A nation's ability to operate in an international environment is...
K.M.S.A. KaiserTalk of talk-shows, roundtable dialogues, articles, editorials, post editorials, gossips and what have you, the most likely topic encountered (no crossfire for sure) would be one or a cocktail from the vast gamut of burning public issues like galloping...
"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite...
There is apparently no chance for the inflation to come down as all the factors which generally contribute to its rise are still persisting strongly in the country, experts said. Moreover the growth in exports and remittance which generally provide...
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