Editorial

Steven Hill :What is the future of work, and the future of jobs? For the last several decades, the workers of Germany, the US and...

AMAR Ekushey is being celebrated today with due solemnity and colourful festivities to remember the Martyrs of the 1952 Language Movement. In fact, it is...

THE newly fixed increased train fares have come into effect from Saturday, as per media outlets, despite criticism against widespread corruption, misuse of public money...

OFFICIAL disclosure in Dhaka on Wednesday said Malaysia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the city under which it would take 1.5 million...

TAXICABS in Dhaka city are still in small number but drivers are often blamed for not properly respectful to commuters’ travel-destination choices. The high fare...

George Friedman :This was a week in which you could hear the political foundations of much of the global system creaking. I have been writing...

Niels Keijzer and Adam Moe Fejerskov :The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) plays a key role in defining and monitoring global standards in the field...

Mindless cruelty From the newspapers of February18,2016 we learned that bodies of four kids were found buried under sand after they were missing for five...

Support the Palestine’s just cause On February 14, 2016, the honourable president of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas along with his delegation made a two-hour stopover in...

Daniel Gros :For the better part of a decade, central banks have been making only limited headway in curbing powerful global deflationary forces. Since 2008,...

Dani Rodrik :The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a mega trade deal covering 12 countries that together account for more than one-third of global GDP and...

Anders Åslund :It is time to put the rise of the emerging economies in perspective. The rapid economic growth in much of the developing world...