Automation, avocation, or a future of both?

Missing the meaning of the 'Great Recession' (2008-12) may be more detrimental for businesses than going with stock-market, or short-term, spurts. Investopedia calls it 'great' since it went beyond the conventional interpretation of a recession (two consecutive quarters of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decline, or 2.0 per cent unemployment growth...

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Agriculture most vulnerable to climate change

As an economy, Bangladesh has performed remarkably well in recent years regardless of socio-political obstacles. It has maintained an average economic growth of 6.0 per cent per annum. Also, it performed well in reducing poverty rate to 24.3 per cent and extreme poverty rate to 12.9 per cent. The country...

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Alternate employment

In structured societies the concept of alternate employment used to be reserved for students and those between jobs. Inflation, soaring costs of living and pay rises in dissonance with those costs have resulted in some institutionalised jobs no longer being enough to run families in the west. The numbers of...

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