Expectations from a pandemic-responsive budget

As the Covid-19 outbreak continues to impact life and livelihoods at an unprecedented scale, devising a pandemic-responsive budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 (FY22) will be critical to chart the way to a resilient recovery from the crisis. Several studies have indicated that economic activities and employment across the economy...

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A new commitment for vaccine equity and defeating the pandemic

As preparations are made for the G7 Summit in the United Kingdom (UK) next week, top of the agenda is how to end the Covid-19 pandemic and secure the global recovery. Urgent challenges face us. By now it has become abundantly clear there will be no broad-based recovery without an...

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Shahid bhai was a dependable leader

Shahiduzzaman Khan, who we called Shahid bhai, was a soft spoken and very dependable leader of the newsroom. I had the honour to work with him in three newspapers and all of them had added new chapters in English journalism in Bangladesh.Beginning at The Daily Star, we, under the leadership...

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