2017 — A year of clash of politics and economies
Martin Khor :Yet another new year has dawned. But 2017 will be a year like no other.There will be a thunderous clash of policies, economies...
Editorial
Medical colleges producing substandard physicians
AN alarming situation is obtaining in the country’s medical education where lack of adequate number of teachers, class rooms and other infrastructures is adding to...
BPC must be transparent when it comes for slashing oil prices
MEDIA reports on Thursday said Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has asked the government to convert its outstanding dues worth Tk 27,419 crore into subsidy although...
Readers’ Forum
Poor cricket team management We are surprised by the behaviour of the team management in omitting spinner specialist Mehedi Miraj from the teams that disgracefully...
Trump`s extreme oligarchy
Simon Johnson :US President-elect Donald Trump is filling his cabinet with rich people. According to the latest count, his nominees include five billionaires and six...
Learning to love a multipolar world
Jeffrey D. Sachs :American foreign policy is at a crossroads. The United States has been an expanding power since its start in 1789. It battled...
The threat to global banking standards
Howard Davies : The financial crisis of 2008 gave a big boost to the global standard-setters. Suddenly, the Basel Committee (which sets the standards for...
Bigger ADP, poorer implementation
THE annual development programme (ADP) is quite slow as the Planning Minister himself said on Tuesday after half yearly review of the progress under fiscal...
Fire at Gulshan market
A DEVASTATING fire once again gutted a sprawling two storied city market at Gulshan-1 reducing at least 300 shops to ashes rendering shop owners penniless....
The next migrant wave
Stephen Groff :Imagine that you are a farmer. Your crops are withering as weather patterns become more volatile, your well water is too salty to...
Stop worrying about ‘Doing Business’ ranking
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame :Without any hint of irony, the World Bank’s most recent Doing Business Report 2017 promises ‘Equal Opportunity for All’. Bangladesh...
MPs must make the govt to be competent for safety of all
REFERRING to the killing of ruling party MP from Gaibandha-1 Constituency Manzurul Islam Liton, lawmakers from both the Treasury and Opposition Benches on Monday demanded...