Editor’s note
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Top News
Bangladesh as a ‘developed country’: ‘Graduating’ imperatives
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Recovering From Covid Reinventing Our Future
An action agenda for fostering inclusive growth in Bangladesh
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Recovering From Covid Reinventing Our Future
Future bright for RMG sector after record year
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Recovering From Covid Reinventing Our Future
Pandemic induced accelerated adoption to stay, or revert?
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Top News
The economic impacts of the 4IR on Bangladesh
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Top News
Tackling corruption for inclusive development
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Top News
Institutional reforms are essential to create jobs
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Recovering From Covid Reinventing Our Future
Role of agriculture in Bangladesh’s economic growth
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Recovering From Covid Reinventing Our Future
Sustaining our economic growth for a better society
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Recovering From Covid Reinventing Our Future
Editor’s note
Like the previous years, we are celebrating our 31st Anniversary with yet another colourful, well-illustrated 200 - page special supplement in five segments.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh as a ‘developed country’: ‘Graduating’ imperatives
“Graduation” has become a Bangladeshi buzzword. Journalists, scholars, and technocrats were working on that term even before November 24, 2021. On that day, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly green-signalled a possible exit from the “least developed country” (LDC) to join the “developing” list from 2026.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
An action agenda for fostering inclusive growth in Bangladesh
Analytically speaking, if economic growth is to be inclusive, it must fulfil three mutually synergetic criteria: it must be sustained and pro-poor; it must ensure equity in resource availability, access to basic social services and income distribution; and it must be accompanied by productive employment.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Future bright for RMG sector after record year
The future looks bright for Bangladesh’s RMG sector after a period of profound uncertainty due to the global pandemic. The latest apparel export figures show that, despite the coronavirus pandemic and global lockdowns in key markets, Bangladesh set a new record for apparel exports in the 2021 calendar year.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Pandemic induced accelerated adoption to stay, or revert?
The onset of the Coronavirus pandemic at the beginning of the year 2020 has affected human civilisation like no other since the Spanish Flu pandemic exactly a hundred years ago.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
The economic impacts of the 4IR on Bangladesh
Bangladesh is gearing up for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Hardly a day goes by when a national political leader or a prominent civil society stalwart does not bring up the issues relating to 4IR in the national media. One could even say that 4IR is the new buzzword for the country.
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Tackling corruption for inclusive development
Bangladesh has transformed from a war-ravaged, resource-starved and acutely poverty-stricken least developed country (LDC) at independence in 1971, into a low middle income country by 2015.
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Institutional reforms are essential to create jobs
In the post-independence period, Bangladesh’s number one problem was population growth.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Role of agriculture in Bangladesh’s economic growth
After independence, the agriculture sector was Bangladesh’s main economic driving force. Its contribution to GDP was around 60 percent.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Sustaining our economic growth for a better society
While most economies around the world today are suffering from an economic crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow by 6.4 percent in the 2021-22 fiscal year (FY), according to the World Bank.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Development prerogatives for South Asia’s economic progress
In 1960, China’s GDP per capita was USD 89.52. Until about the mid-1990s, China was a low-income country, with a per capita income of USD 317 in 1990.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Our next big leap will be driven by innovation
At the peak of the pandemic in 2020, Japan-based Hitachi launched an IoT application-based airCloud Pro device which could manage large cooling and heating systems remotely.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Public universities and research: In 2022 and beyond
Research is like the cygnet: it grows and transforms with power and beauty. It represents endurance, elegance, promise and joy! (Adapted from a quote on a consumer product)
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Learning loss from Covid-19: Can a generational threat be averted?
The United Nations has called it the “longest disruption to education in history” worldwide. In Bangladesh, schools remained closed non-stop for 543 days from March 17, 2020 to September 11, 2021.
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