Trade in services: Invoking LDC services waiver
The services sector has been playing an increasingly important role in the global economy over the last four decades. The services sector is the fastest growing sector relative to other sectors not only in industrialised countries but also in newly emerging market and developing economies (EMDE) like Bangladesh. In Bangladesh,...
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Rohingya imbroglio: Heeding the suggestion of three Nobel Peace laureates
To the three Nobel Peace laureates - Iran's Shirin Ebadi, Ireland's Mairead Maguire and Yemen's Tawakkol Karman - who visited Bangladesh recently, issues of genocide, crimes against humanity and human rights violations are bread and butter issues. They thus concluded after their visits to the Rohingya camps that the Myanmar...
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Nigeria's schoolgirls are under attack again
They lie about 150 miles apart in the vast brushlands of northern Nigeria, but the towns of Chibok and Dapchi have a tragic bond: both have been targets of large-scale kidnappings of schoolgirls by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. Following a three-year global campaign to free the 276 girls...
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