Economic liberalisation and rural poverty in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh economy has undergone profound transformation since the onset of economic liberalisation which started in the late 1980s. But the liberalisation process has become more vigorous since the second half of the 1990s. The liberalisation agenda incorporates an important element, foreign direct investment (FDI) to enable the country to...
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Future of our planet requires deeper cooperation, long-term thinking
For most of the 7.0 billion people on the planet, global institutions are remote, far removed from their day-to-day existence. Yet, our global institutions matter.They shape the global systems - such as international trade rules - that will enable the more than 3.0 billion poor people worldwide, who live on...
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