24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part-2)
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 2) / Armchair activism
Was 2014 the year technology and social media took over activism?
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 2) / Why you should care about Fair Trade
Have you ever thought about where the products you use everyday come from?
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 2) / BRANDING BANGLADESH
CONSIDERING how difficult it is to establish truly global brands, the tragic event made the task even more difficult.
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 2) / At your service
Many businesses forget that human interaction is the foundation of all institutions. Individuals make a family unit which collectively creates a neighbourhood which then builds a town and so on and so forth till nations come into being forming the world that we inhabit today.
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 2) / Targeting higher hanging fruits
BANGLADESH'S recent socio-economic progress has attracted wide attention globally. In an article, the editor of The Telegraph, India reflected on how Bangladesh has weathered all odds and is now able to proudly move forward. He compared Bangladesh's achievements to that of his native state, West Bengal and lamented how the latter was falling behind.
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 2) / Health sector demonstrates the incredible power of the "system"
Abook published a decade ago by the United Nations (2005) titled “Public Enterprises: Unresolved challenges and new opportunities” stated that the performance of public enterprises is determined 80 percent by the system, 16 percent by the leadership and only four percent by rest of the staff.
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 2) / Education policy: Challenges of implementation
First of all it must be admitted that we have been able to formulate and work out an Education Policy after decades of polemics.
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part 2) / Paving the way to future?
In an article for The Daily Star, I had written:“A new National Education Policy was announced by the government in June 2010.
Higher education and a riveting rumination
Again loomed the political bedlams and remained education in the gloom and doldrums.
Degrees of empowerment: Higher education and its challenges
In 1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke to Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Society about the responsibilities of a scholar and the role played by an institution of higher learning in shaping the mind.
Consequences of capital flight
Aconsensus cannot be reached on what precisely constitutes capital flight.
"Ensure business-friendly environment," DCCI President emphasises
"POLITICAL stability is crucial for all areas of the economy, including exports, investment, business confidence, and industrial and agricultural production," says Hossain Khaled, president of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI).
SME development
ACCORDING to the National Industrial Policy 2010, any firm employing more than 10 but less than 25 workers is called a micro-enterprise.
BCIM – Economic opportunities for Bangladesh
The Asian Century has begun with the conjunction of the two growth poles of Asia – the East and South Asia through the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor Initiative (BCIM-EC).
Bangladesh in regional and interregional blocs
By forming an association or bloc of countries in a region, individual member countries can rapidly achieve political stability and economic prosperity as it helps create employment, combat terrorism and improve living standards via the implementation of thought-out projects.
Foreign investors follow local investors In conversation with President, MCCI
BUSINESSES have been affected most from the current turbulent political situation. Both the export and the domestic businesses have been passing through a difficult time.
A creative economy
It is true what Dr Seuss had said. If only we try to think, we can think of so many things, in different dimensions and beyond parameters and across boundaries. And that is what sparks creativity.
Dhaka in a crystal ball
CONSIDERED as one of the fathers of rocket science, Braun – whose list of achievements included building a booster rocket that helped put the human race on the moon – was a leading intellectual of the twentieth century.