24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 1) / Stocktaking of stock market
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Supplements
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 1) / Reform and policy support for capital market
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Supplements
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 1) / EDITOR'S NOTE
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Supplements
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 1) / Privatising government owned enterprises
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Supplements
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 1) / Serving better through eGovernance
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Supplements
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 1) / In search of strategies for export diversification
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Supplements
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 1) / It's not about IT, is it?
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
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24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 1) / The future of RMG trade
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
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24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 1) / Mobile technology in health and agriculture service deliveries
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
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24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 1) / GSP suspension - blessing in disguise?
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
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Stocktaking of stock market
Dhaka stock market started functioning in 1956. Sixty years have passed since then. But the Bangladesh stock market remained immature and failed to be an important force in shaping the economy of the country.
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Reform and policy support for capital market
Those who say that the Bangladesh capital market has already had enough reforms and also the policy support, they are mainly outsiders; they did not have any stake in the market directly.
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EDITOR'S NOTE
IT is with great pleasure that we present to you a three-part special supplement series beginning today to mark the 24th founding anniversary of The Daily Star.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Privatising government owned enterprises
Following the worldwide pattern of a limited role of government in industrial and commercial activities and divesting of government owned enterprises into private hands; Bangladesh too has been doing this for decades.
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Serving better through eGovernance
SERVING the citizens through electronic governance or “eGovernance”, is more essential for the developing countries than forthe developed and less populousones.
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In search of strategies for export diversification
The export structure of Bangladesh looks like a 'tadpole'- an early phase of a frog's life cycle where a big upper part of the body is linked with a shallow middle part and a long tail in the lower part. A limited number of 'dynamic' export products at the upper part dominate Bangladesh's export basket.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
It's not about IT, is it?
The US Secretary of State in the 70s, Dr Henry Kissinger, after the birth of our nation, infamously dubbed Bangladesh as a 'bottomless basket' because it was considered to be a country with no hope.
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The future of RMG trade
Bangladesh’s garment exports increased from USD 6.8 billion in 2005 to USD 19.9 billion in 2012, recording a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.6 percent.
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Mobile technology in health and agriculture service deliveries
Acombination of rapid proliferation of mobile technologies coupled with improved connectivity has opened up innovative possibilities for ICTs in last-mile service delivery like never before.
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GSP suspension - blessing in disguise?
Prompted by the Rana Plaza disaster that killed about 1137 workers in April 2013, the US government suspended duty-free privileges it had granted under the GSP programme to products exported from Bangladesh.
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Towards Digital Bangladesh
On January 12, 2014, the present government has elapsed one more year towards the destination of Digital Bangladesh.
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A new paradigm for global generic medicines
Bangladesh has all the potentials to become a new paradigm for global generic medicines. With a population of 156.66 million, the country's social development indicators are very promising.
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Computer science education and research
This part of the world, particularly Bangladesh, has always been fortunate in making great starts.
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Leather goods: Relocation issue
Bangladesh’s effort to emerge as a major leather products exporting nation is not getting momentum due to long dilly-dallying over the relocation of polluting tanneries from the capital to Savar.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
E-commerce needs a new prefix to grow up
We humans are physical and social beings. We like to interact with people and things physically. Overlooking this simple fact and assuming digital interactions can substitute our inherent desires of touch and feel would fundamentally challenge what makes us human.
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Agriculture: Future Challenges
HISTORIC PERFORMANCE OF AGRICULTURE: Despite a precipitous fall in the relative contribution to the GDP of Bangladesh, agriculture has performed remarkably well so far.
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Digital Bangladesh: Dreams and reality
Digital Bangladesh is one of the nation's dreams, and so special emphasis is given on the application of digital technologies to realise Vision 2021, which we commonly call Digital Bangladesh.
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Agriculture: Technology gives boost
In the last 40 years the amount of arable land has shrunk at a rate of 1 percent per annum. In the last 40 years many natural sources of irrigation water have dried up permanently.
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Internet and Bangladesh: A brave new world awaits
Digital Disruption, a word which didn't make any sense ten years back, is now a buzz word.
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The white revolution
SEVENTY-NINE years ago, Manik Bandopadhyay painted the picture of the strugglesof fishermen in his famous novel,'Boatman of the Padma River.' The struggle for survival and livelihood remains to this day for many fishermen.
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