Asjadul Kibria | 2019-11-24 00:00:00
Nobel Prize in Economics was introduced 67 years after the original Noble Prize. The subject was not included at the will of Alfred Nobel. 'The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel' was introduced by the...
Monsurul Aziz | 2019-11-24 00:00:00
It is of no surprise that in Stone Age days we used to rely on barter system to trade where goods were exchanged for goods. With time money came into play which carried certain values and got accepted as a...
Ali Ahmed | 2019-11-24 00:00:00
It is by now quite well-known in the informed circles that Bangladesh is on its way to come out successfully in the next assessment in March, 2021, to be conducted by the Centre for Development Policy (CDP) of the United...
Muhammad Nazmul Khan | 2019-11-24 00:00:00
The idea of protecting claims to intellectual property (IP) – proprietary knowledge and inventions – is involved with almost as many tricky aspects as the inventions themselves. After all, how many of us haven't heard about the story of Sir...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2019-11-24 00:00:00
Socially responsible investment (SRI) is an umbrella term to describe an investment process which takes environmental, social, governance (ESG) or ethical considerations into account. SRI is not a new concept and has gone by many names throughout the years: Values-based...
Babui Salsabil | 2019-11-24 00:00:00
Development practitioners often tend to detach the people that they try to benefit from the process of development, albeit unconsciously. That is, they think of the beneficiaries - for the lack of a better word - as passive recipients of...
SM Abdullah, Nahian Azad Shashi and Rumana Huque | 2019-11-24 00:00:00
Effectiveness of tobacco control initiatives is subject to the status of trade regulations of a region. As a direct effect of trade liberalisation by many countries, the world has experienced stimulation in trade volume of tobacco and tobacco products in...
Khondaker Golam Moazzem | 2019-11-24 00:00:00
The county's export sector has confronted the second generation challenge, i.e. failure to diversify its export base beyond readymade garments (RMG) sector. Its US$45 billion worth of export is overwhelmingly dominated by RMG products (85.0 per cent of total export).More...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2019-11-24 00:00:00
Once again annual forecast has been made by the Bangladesh Government and three multi-lateral institutions regarding the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) well before the half-way mark of the current fiscal. Though it is possible to make such...
Abdul MONAyEM KHAN | 2019-11-23 00:00:00
Sonadia Island, a nine-square kilometre small island in the Bay of Bengal, is likely to lose its 'virginity' as the authorities concerned are building an eco-tourism park there, according to local people and environmentalists.An island is called virgin when the...
Syful Islam | 2019-11-23 00:00:00
India is pushing for finalising the standard operating procedure (SOP) of using the Chattogram and Mongla seaports for sending goods to its north-eastern states, officials have said.The big neighbour in a recent letter to the government of Bangladesh requested for...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2019-11-23 00:00:00
The share of bank loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) has been on the rise for the straight eighth year, as the banks are required to meet their farm loan target.According to the Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA), the share of banks...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2019-11-23 00:00:00
Bangladesh is famous for its woven fabric worldwide, the tradition stretching back to over one thousand years. Previously, there were arrangements for selling the woven clothes locally through informal channels. Later their marketing has been consolidated through establishment of 'haats'...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-11-23 00:00:00
On the Bangla calendar Jibananada's Hemanta has arrived more than a month ago. Blades of Aman paddy plants or grasses heralded the advent of this dusky season spreading, in its turn, a thin veil of gloom on human mind weeks...
Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Quamrul Ahsan, Anisul Haque, Munsur Rahman, Shampa and Shamal C. Das | 2019-11-23 00:00:00
For more than 55 years, ever since the first Water Resources Master Plan was formulated by IECO (1964), the policy makers and engineers have continued to seek more rigorous means of managing the water resources, floods and natural disasters in...
Jan Lundius in Stockholm/Rome | 2019-11-23 00:00:00
To be president in a country like Bolivia might be like a precarious act performed by a tightrope-dancer between "the Devil and the deep blue sea". After 23 years as Bolivia's President, Evo Morales finally lost his foothold and ended...
Asjadul Kibria | 2019-11-23 00:00:00
Anguish and pain of a large number of people due to unexpected and undesirable trouble is growing day by day in this country. While trouble or danger is part of life, lack of tools to deal with it turns people...
Abdul Bayes | 2019-11-23 00:00:00
S. R. Osmani, an eminent Professor of Development Economics at Ulster University, UK, published an interesting and insightful paper about changing social norms and the culture of repayment of credit in rural Bangladesh (The Bangladesh Development Studies, 2016, Numbers 3...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2019-11-23 00:00:00
The 49-year old Bangladesh economy has got two malignant tumors growing to engulf its successes as an economic hub in south Asia -- one in the area of border trade and the other in revenue realisation as well as public...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2019-11-22 00:00:00
The prices of onion remained almost unchanged at their previous high level on Thursday despite arrival of imported consignments in the market, according to traders and consumers. Visits to some kitchen markets in the city revealed that onion of local...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2019-11-22 00:00:00
The customs authorities are now empowered to halt the products imported or exported, violating the Intellectual Property Rights, or IPR.According to the provisions of new rules, customs officials will be able to halt the import and export of products and...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2019-11-22 00:00:00
Students are the central stakeholder in any education system. However, they are often excluded from the very conversations in educational planning that determine their lives and their futures. These conversations often happen around students and not with them. But, students...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2019-11-22 00:00:00
The Ministry of Food started this year's Aman rice procurement programme Wednesday last with food officials buying paddy in some areas where harvesting has already begun. The deputy commissioners of a number of districts inaugurated the routine seasonal drive amidst...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-11-22 00:00:00
The High Court's observation to the effect that production, sale and storage of fake and adulterated medicines should be dealt with maximum punishment resonates with the sentiments of most people in the country. The remark was made at the time...
Stephen Grenville in Sydney, Australia | 2019-11-22 00:00:00
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the central bankers' club in Basel, Switzerland, recently conducted an in-depth evaluation of the unconventional monetary policies that have become the norm in many countries since the 2008 financial crisis. It should come as...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2019-11-22 00:00:00
An offender can be punished with a view to having a deterrent effect both for the person concern and for others, giving an example. But when a judge is lenient and hands down a token punishment for serious transgression, taking...
Md. Matiul Islam | 2019-11-21 12:00:00
My visit to New Delhi with my family members from September 30 to October 10, 2019 for medical reasons coincided with the official visit of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from October 03 to 06, 2019. During a dinner in...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2019-11-21 00:00:00
Alongside provision of other basic needs like food, clothing, education and healthcare, shelter or housing is a constitutional right of Bangladeshi citizens. This is a fundamental obligation of the state, as enshrined in Article 15 of the Constitution. Also the...
Vladimir Popov in Berlin and Jomo Kwame Sundaram in Kuala Lumpur | 2019-11-21 00:00:00
Any balanced assessment of the so-called Chinese economic miracle will recognise that it was extremely successful, not only during the reform period from 1979, but also since Liberation in 1949 despite the setbacks of the Great Leap Forward and the...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2019-11-20 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has proposed that the government set a cash transaction limit of Tk 10,000 in a bid to curb corruption through unrecorded transactions.The government might also make it mandatory for all transactions above that limit to be...
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