Food security and growth in Asia

A disquieting finding of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017, Building Resilience for Peace and Food Security, or (SFSN2017), Rome, is that, in 2016, the number of chronically undernourished people in the world increased to 815 million, up from 777 million in 2015 although still...

Increasing export competitiveness of plastic industry

The plastic industry that began its journey in Bangladesh in a small scale in the 1960's has developed into an important industrial sector in the last two decades. A 2012 UNESCAP (The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) study estimated that Bangladesh plastic industry could raise its...