How SDG9 seeks to boost growth, employment
Investment in infrastructure is required for the growth in productivity and income, and improvement in health and education. The UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9 argues that inclusive and sustainable industrial development is the primary source of income generation which in turn allows for rapid and sustained increases in living...
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Exploring blue economy to enhance GDP growth
Considering Bangladesh's now expanded maritime boundary in the Bay of Bengal, experts have called for exploring the 'Blue Economy'. They say it could take the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to a staggering 10 per cent growth in the next decade. A bright prospect in the country's marine resource-based Blue...
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Modernising the shrimp sector
With its export earning being heavily dependent on readymade garments (RMG) sector which contributes over 80 per cent to the total exports, diversification of Bangladesh's export basket has long been a major concern of the policymakers. Here comes the issue of revamping the shrimp sector which has the potential to...
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Those draconian measures ... and our worries
We have news. And it certainly does not make us happy. Of course, it all depends on how you take it. The bigger truth is that as citizens, as men and women who believe in the high principles of democracy, in the idea that is liberalism, indeed in the idea...
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