Mega-regional trade agreements and Bangladesh

Regional integration has always been a pressing issue for the members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) who have actively voiced in favour of widespread regional tie-ups in liberalising trade barriers and, in some cases, eliminating the trade barriers between the regionally integrated nations as well. The underlying notion behind...

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China: Overcoming the middle-income trap

According to the World Bank, high-income economies ($12,236 or more) include the US, Western Europe and Japan, while upper middle-income economies ($3,956 -$12,235) feature Turkey, Russia, Brazil and China, among others.In the past, many countries have attained moderate living standards, yet failed to graduate to the next level. China entered...

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Urban environmental benefits of green roofs

Different locations of a city experience varying degrees of heat on account of segregated urban development. The temperature of urban areas is likely to be higher than rural and suburban areas. In urban areas, heat waves get exacerbated by urban heat-island effect. This has the potential to negatively influence health...

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