Readers’ Forum
‘All-time best XI’ in Football Holland’s Johan Cruyff, architect of total football, has announced the names of the footballers of his ‘All-time best X1’. Cruyff...
Editorial
Of corporate accountability
Jerome Chaplier, Urs Rybi and Sandra Cossart. :Earlier this year, eight EU parliaments sent a letter to the European Commission, urging the institution to take...
Two lessons for the next US President
Chris Patten :Looking out of my window across the harbor of the remarkable city of Nagasaki, Japan, two thoughts of considerable relevance to the next...
Demographics and development
Mahmoud Mohieldin :Achieving the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals – which aim to end poverty, boost shared prosperity, and promote sustainability, between now and 2030 –...
TIB can`t be so wrongly and so baselessly biased against World Bank
WORLD Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, concluding a two-day trip to Bangladesh on October 18 pledged $2 billion over the next three years in...
Over subscribing in Govt saving tools will only increase its debt obligations
THE New Nation on Saturday reported, people in recent years are very much hesitant to keep their money in banks due to squeezing or negative...
Fighting climate change needs multi-dimensional capacity building
Dr Mike Cherrett :Capacity building has traditionally been the developed world empowering the developing world. That direction of travel fits, to an extent, the demands...
CETA failure reveals Lisbon Treaty`s structural flaws
Iana Dreyer :Trade policy is at the heart of the EU, because it is inherent to the bloc’s customs union and to the EU’s single...
Smuggling through Maitree Express must be stopped
ACCORDING to recent media report Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) alleged that many passengers of Maitree Express, a Dhaka-Kolkata train service, were involved in...
Losses should worry PDB
THE New Nation reported on Friday that the Power Development Board (PDB) has become a reckless loser on state exchequer as its cumulative loss stands...
Readers’ Forum
A great singer indeed Renowned folk-lore singer Abbas Uddin Ahmad was born on October 27 in 1901 in West Bengal of India, but the day...
Why farmers respond differently to higher food prices?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Higher food prices are supposed to induce farmers to increase production for sale. In reality, however, their supply responsiveness is influenced by...