Editorial

A DEVASTATING fire in a section of the Sundarbans damaged plants on around 1.66 acres of forestland on Monday raising doubts about the cause of...

IN a landmark verdict the Supreme Court (SC) has convicted two ministers for contempt of court and fined them Tk 50,000 each for making highly...

FOOD inflation in terms of rising prices of food items is bringing pressure on both urban and rural poor by limiting their intake of nutritious...

Too many unemployed There are many educated people in our country who are unemployed. Frustrated, many of them get involved in criminal activities and also...

Nitin Paranjpe(From previous issue)Starting in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast, the programs will promote handwashing in schools and improve water management. The aim is...

Amy Liu at Brookings :“Embracing a broader vision of economic development is an economic and fiscal imperative,” Amy Liu writes in her new report, “Remaking...

The 22 March terrorist attacks in Brussels come as the European Union is still reeling from the November Paris attacks and scrambling to solve the...

Jeffrey Frankel :When it comes to the rise in economic inequality since the 1970s in the United States and some other advanced economies, it doesn’t...

Living with a friendly neighbour India is a big country, along side it Bangladesh looks like a molehill beside a mountain. It is a pity...

Nitin Paranjpe :Access to clean, safe water is fundamental to life. It is essential to health and well-being, but also food, energy, prosperity and economic...

Jeffrey D. Sachs and Hannah Sachs :Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba is the first by a US president since Calvin Coolidge went in 1928. American...

Michael Spence and David Brady :Over the last 35 years, Western democracies have seen a rapid rise in political instability, characterized by frequent shifts in...