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Naziba Ali 2020-11-11 17:58:30
The people of Chattogram are well-known for their hospitality. They are foodies and do not shy away from entertaining others with foods. During the stagnant lockdown days when everyone was worried ove...
Patrick Njoroge and Ceyla Pazarbasioglu 2020-11-10 21:09:34
Digitalisation has in the past few years enabled developing countries in particular to leapfrog on financial inclusion. Countries like Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania have made great advances in c...
FARIA ABDULLAH 2020-11-10 13:56:25
Nilkhet, a paradise for Dhaka city bibliophiles, is still reeling from Covid-19 losses. Not just tiny bookstalls, but prominent bookstores in the Nilkhet book market have experienced a financial rundo...
Md Touhidul Alam Khan 2020-11-09 20:30:27
The 10th of November, this day is observed as International Accounting Day across the world every year to celebrate the deeds of accountants and the impacts of their contribution to smooth operation o...
Farabi Shayor 2020-11-08 17:10:16
Over the past decades, Bangladesh has surmounted expectations by transforming it into one of the largest apparel exporters in the world. Given the large-scale manufacturing capacity, the country is on...
MICHAEL TACKETT 2020-11-08 16:48:37
President Donald Trump lost. But Trumpism did not. It won in the parts of the country and with the voters whom Trump catered to over four years, constantly jabbing the hard edges of almost every cont...
Shihab Sarkar 2020-11-05 20:41:19
Few will believe that in his 75-year life, Abul Hasnat had led eventful phases since his early youth up to the weeks before his death on November 1. Fewer will realise that like his least-known subtle...
Tareq Ahmed Robin and Eusha Rahman 2020-11-05 20:37:53
The impressive GDP growth over the last decade, thanks to a significant industrial expansion during this period, has raised energy demand in Bangladesh. To address this increasing demand, Bangladesh...
Hasnat M Alamgir 2020-11-05 20:36:33
Given the very large size of population, increasing health awareness, and growing purchase capacity, Bangladesh is supposed to be a major consumer of pharmaceutical products in the world. The high and...
Nayeem Chowdhury 2020-11-05 16:54:58
"Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The gunpowder treason and plot; I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot!" This is what a traditional old British rhyme says. Nov...
RUBAYAT SALEHEEN 2020-11-04 13:54:50
Every entity on the planet bears the responsibility for understanding the circumstances that enable its existence. While in quest of superiority, we tend to forget the responsibility towards the envir...
Vijay Prashad 2020-11-03 20:30:56
Not for one minute during this pandemic has the United States stopped trying to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. A seam of cruelty runs through US policy, which by its s...
Muhammad Zamir 2020-11-01 21:13:23
Myanmar is gearing up for another parliamentary, state, and local elections. They are scheduled for November 8, 2020- a few days away. Their government has been trying to portray this election as th...
MARIA ANIS CHOWDHURY 2020-11-01 15:47:21
The question of whether it is the mind or the body that pulls the strings of the self is still inconclusive. At least for once in our lives, the question of our existence must have come to our minds....
Muhammad Mahmood 2020-10-31 21:46:15
Luis Arce won 55.1 per cent of the votes in the presidential election held on October 18 against six rival candidates including a former President. This election victory provided vindicati...
Arefin Mizan 2020-10-31 19:26:35
After the recent proposal to raise the tax-free income ceiling and other reforms in the tax policy, it is the right time to ponder if Bangladesh has come to a point where it can be called a tax-friend...
ABDULLAH IBN MAHMUD 2020-10-30 12:31:10
If one looks up the phrase ‘City of Mosques,’ on the net, what is found is the name Istanbul, once known as Constantinople, the bicontinental city of Europe and Asia, now the capital of Tu...
Terry Chan and Alexandra Dimitrijevic 2020-10-29 21:52:08
As countries, companies, and households confront the Covid-19 pandemic's economic fallout, many market watchers are sounding the alarm about rapidly rising leverage worldwide. And for good reason: in...
Shihab Sarkar 2020-10-29 20:45:42
In many of his novels Humayun Ahmed quite deftly portrays the life in the lower middle-class families in Bangladesh. These unremittingly poverty-battered people are mostly concentrated in the countr...
Asjadul Kibria 2020-10-28 21:45:32
A recent move to suspend some provisions of the multilateral agreement on the trade-linked intellectual property did not get the necessary support in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The move was i...
Afra Nawmi 2020-10-28 21:38:03
The goal of bringing the country’s neighbourhood shops and online sellers on a single digitised platform is one step ahead: ShopUp has raised the largest Series-A financing. The startup has jus...
FE Online Desk 2020-10-28 17:57:29
Latifur Rahman, chairman of Transcom Group, was the founding member and vice president of ICC Bangladesh and founding vice president of Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre until his sad demise...
W T Whitney 2020-10-27 21:08:05
Buffeted for six decades by the United States (US) economic blockade and recently having had to cope with restrictions on daily life and work due to Covid-19, Cuba's already shaky economy is deteriora...
Samuel Pienknagura, Jorge Roldos and Alejandro Werner 2020-10-26 21:09:34
Covid-19 has hit Latin America and the Caribbean harder than other parts of the world, both in human and economic terms. The relatively large human toll is evident: with only 8.2 percent of the world...
Ismot Hasnine Masrur E Khuda 2020-10-26 20:27:30
The sweetest memory of most kids of 90s is coming back home from a game of cricket in the afternoon and sitting in front of the television for the latest episode of Pokemon, Macgyver or Alif Laila. Th...
Oscar Jonsson and Taylor Owen 2020-10-24 22:04:55
Today, as our economic and social lives increasingly move online owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the digital and physical domains are becoming more integrated than ever. And now more than ever, govern...
Muhammad Mahmood 2020-10-24 22:00:04
The 2020 Annual Meetings of World Bank Group (WBG) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) were held during the middle of this month conducted from Washington. The reports released prior to and during t...
Anne O. Krueger 2020-10-23 21:43:13
It has taken four years, but US President Donald Trump's tax avoidance and deep indebtedness are finally being exposed, as are his many acts of self-dealing and efforts to benefit his cronies. Under T...
Shihab Sarkar 2020-10-22 20:53:24
Cinema halls occupied the largest segment of the recreational outlets in the Dhaka of early 1960s. By the time this writer mustered enough courage to watch movies with school friends Dhaka alrea...
Shah Md Ahsan Habib 2020-10-22 20:51:03
Policy makers of the most developing countries have been very active in promoting some forms of sustainable banking activities. Likewise, policy makers and banks in Bangladesh have been pursuing susta...
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