Making RMG growth lasting
Bangladesh's garments industry, for good or worse, has been on the radar screen of policy regulators, North American and European trade union movements, international lenders, as well as global activists promoting sustainable and equitable growth.
7 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Can we have full disclosure, please?
Bangladesh is well-known around the globe for its many achievements. Rapid economic progress, exceptional exports growth, universal primary education, elimination of poverty and bold strides in addressing income inequality.
27 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Why aren't the leaders smiling?
There has been no respite for the major world economies from weak economic growth, a pushback against globalisation in the form of trade pacts such as TTIP and TPP, and spiralling commodities prices.
16 September 2016, 18:00 PM
THE CHALLENGES AHEAD
The ink has hardly dried on the Paris climate agreement (PA) document, and it appears that global attention has moved on to other urgent matters: terrorism, election politics, Brexit, and what have you.
16 August 2016, 18:00 PM
“Brexit” and Bangladesh
Bangladesh is not about to face a doomsday scenario when Britain finally leaves the European Union in 2019 as expected.
3 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Britain can benefit from Brexit
The British voters' decision to leave the European Union (EU), or “Brexit”, has triggered a major reshuffling of global political and economic alignments.
29 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Trump's campaign slogan, “It's the Economy, Stupid” is a risky one
Economic times in the US are not bad in comparison with the uncertainty and volatility that has gripped the rest of the world following Brexit...
15 July 2016, 18:00 PM
The tyranny of cost-benefit analysis
When economists hand over their findings from a cost-benifit analysis to politicians, it is important to be upfront about the “ifs and buts” of the analysis, and to caution the user of the dangers of making sweeping statements about the superiority of alternative technologies or policy options.
12 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Brexit and its economic fallout
The United Kingdom is now in the midst of a Shakespearean dilemma, “to stay or not to stay”. Voters will decide in a referendum on June 23...
14 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Will US elections sound the death knell for TPP?
He US presidential election campaign is a fascinating case study on how politics overwhelms better judgment. The case in
28 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Going forward - Balance between convenience and security
If we stay attuned to the experts and practitioners working in the financial and banking sectors worldwide, new threats and methods used by the crooks can be neutralised before any damage is done to our own emerging system.
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The Immediate Tasks at Hand
More than three months have passed since the Bangladesh Bank (BB) heist, and in the interim much water has flown down the Padma, Meghna,
16 May 2016, 18:00 PM
What can be done?
I hear from union leaders, labour law advocates and “garments owners”. Unfortunately, I heard different versions of what's going on in the field.
11 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Carbon Tax?
Bangladesh Government Proposes a Tk. 15 Carbon Tax”. This headline would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. However, it
23 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Is economic uncertainty the latest norm?
What is happening in the world today? An apt manner to describe the current economic situation and future prospects is to paraphrase
9 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Do We Need to Worry?
Labour practices and the right to organise by workers have recently received a lot of attention in Western media, triggered by terrible industry accidents in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Blue Afternoon
Sarah has not seen Naeema since then. She had heard from her other sons that Naeema is teaching in a school and staying with her mother.
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Blue Afternoon
The call to prayer wakes Sarah up every morning. There are at least three mosques surrounding her apartment and each of them take
18 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Need for better systems and protocols
The news that foreign hackers attempted to off $101 million from Bangladesh Bank's account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York need not be viewed as a catastrophic failure...
13 March 2016, 18:10 PM
Petroleum price: Reduce price and add a green tax
BANGLADESH is now poised at a historically opportune moment to initiate a “green tax” on carbon-emitting fuels. International oil
2 March 2016, 18:00 PM