Post-tariff trade: Dovetailed or dead-ended?

"Unhampered trade dovetailed with peace," US Secretary Cordell Hull once said, "high tariffs, trade barriers, and unfair competition with war." Hull spoke on the heels of the 1930 Hawley-Smoot Tariffs which made the United States as protectionist as any other on this planet, fostered the Great Depression in the 1930s,...

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Rural economy: Impact of migration, remittance

Migration has long been the attention of academics and policymakers as, at macro level, remittances play a pivotal role. The role of remittances in Bangladesh's growth and development needs no elaboration as two Rs (ready-made garment and remittance) on the external account are keeping the economic wheel moving. The direct...

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