Farmers in a price-trap: A year-long phenomenon

If there was any doubt that farmers in Bangladesh are the most indifferently served groups of producers in the country, the record of rock-bottom price during the three seasons of paddy production should put paid to that. The ringing irony of the situation is that in numerical terms they are...

Bangladesh in global production networks: Identity search

Bangladesh may soon find itself tossing and turning between two key questions: 'What are we', that is, identifying what the country sees itself as; and 'What do we do with what we are', the obvious sequel imposing often taller tasks than meets the eye, if, and only if, country leaders...