Editorial

Rabah Arezki :Oil prices have plummeted by about 65% from their peak in June 2014 (see chart below), and there is now intense debate about...

Sawkia Afroz :The UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cover a sprawling agenda with 17 goals and 169 targets. While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...

G Richard Olds :With physicians already scarce worldwide, demand for foreign-born doctors in the United States and the United Kingdom is stretching developing and middle-income...

Disposal of nuclear waste no easy job :Recent news updates have reported that Russia, who will supply, install and operate the proposed nuclear power plant...

BANGLADESH’S exports to northeastern states of India through Akhaura land port has drastically declined since India started transit shipment of essential goods from last June....

THAILAND`S King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who was the world’s longest-reigning monarch, died on Thursday at the age of 88. He reigned for seven decades after ascending...

Clean air–a basic right The air in Hazaribagh is seriously polluted. With residential houses and tannery factories cohabitating in the same area, smoke from the...

Barry Eichengreen : At the start of October, China’s currency, the renminbi, was added to the basket of currencies that make up the International Monetary...

Daniel Gros :As the world’s financial elite converges on Washington, DC, for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, they...

Avner Offer :Of the elites who manage modern society, only economists have a Nobel Prize, whose latest recipients, Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, have just...

CHINESE President Mr Xi Jinping arrives Dhaka this morning on a state visit with a big entourage at a time when Bangladesh-China relations have steadily...

THE price of soybean oil has increased by Tk 2 to Tk 4 per litre in the kitchen markets after a move by the refiners...