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Calling out for next-gen trade finance

Md Wahidul Islam 2020-11-29 19:50:11

With Covid-19 completely dismantling the economy, innovation sprung in different spheres of business as coping mechanisms. With regard to international business, trade finance –constituting fina...

Rethinking development effectiveness: Perspectives from the global South

Debapriya Bhattacharya and Sarah Sabin Khan 2020-11-27 22:40:12

Discourse on the effectiveness of external public development finance flows is at a turning point. The development landscape has experienced dramatic shifts over the last two decades. The rise of the...

Can BD maintain its competitiveness with RCEP countries?

Khondaker Golam Moazzem 2020-11-22 20:49:09

The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on November 15 took many by surprise. Trade pundits are excited about this agreement. Firstly because, countries involved in...

The shape of economic recovery

Rizwanul Islam 2020-11-19 21:22:06

The global economy seems to be coming out of the deep recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Major developed countries, e.g., USA, UK, France and Germany attained positive GDP growth in the third...

Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines -- massive challenge in a polarised world

Delwar Hossain 2020-11-16 21:16:44

When Covid-19 first emerged as a global pandemic, people around the world expected to see the virus defeated through the advent of a new vaccine. Even though inventing methods of inoculation against n...

Rethinking financing of SDGs: Private sector to the rescue

Mohammad Nazmul Avi Hossain 2020-11-16 21:13:54

Bangladesh has only ten more years to achieve the targets of sustainable development goals followed by its robust success in attaining crucial milestones in millennium development goals. In business a...

Overcoming financial inclusion challenges in South Asia

Muhammad Shahadat Hossain Siddiquee 2020-11-04 21:27:15

Financial inclusion is the degree and ease of access to financial services by individuals and firms within an economy. Ease of access to financial resources can act as a major tool for promoting econo...

Pandemic hitting migrants the hardest

Narayan Das and Md Shakil Ahmed 2020-11-04 20:49:39

Migration plays a vital role in reducing unemployment and poverty in Bangladesh. The remittances sent by the migrants have been growing over time, mainly because of the increasing number of migrants....

Covid-19 -- exposing vulnerabilities in RMG sector

Khondaker Golam Moazzem, Tamim Ahmed, ASM Shamim Alam Shibly and Taslima Taznur 2020-11-03 21:03:43

A policy brief titled 'The Crisis in the World of Work in View of Covid-19' was published in July 2020 by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) comm...

Behavioural insights to guide Covid-19 containment strategies

Minhaj Mahmud 2020-11-01 21:30:14

The main purpose of this article is to discuss how research findings can inform policies/strategies for Covid-19 containment in the context of a developing country like Bangladesh. Primarily, insights...

Uniform policy guidelines to smoothen Bangladesh's LDC graduation

Khondaker Golam Moazzem 2020-10-27 20:18:56

The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) of the United Nation's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is going for the second triennial review of Bangladesh's performance for LDC graduation during Fe...

Low coverage of stimulus packages hinders post-pandemic recovery; small firms suffer

Selim Raihan, Mahtab Uddin, Md Tuhin Ahmed, Jonaed and Fabiha Bushra Khan 2020-10-26 16:36:27

The global pandemic has slowed down economic activities across the world. Bangladesh is also experiencing an economic downturn fuelled by the crisis. During such economic downturn, a close monitoring...

Regional cooperation essential to implementing the SDGs in Asia

Mustafizur Rahman, Towfiqul Islam Khan and Md. Zafar Sadique 2020-10-25 20:47:30

The 2030 agenda with its 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 targets aims to achieve universal economic, social, and environmental progress through a collaborative partnership. This study...

Covid-19 exposes fault lines of Bangladesh's healthcare sector

Sheikh Rafi Ahmed, Tanjim-Ul-Islam, and Nahaly Nafisa Khan 2020-10-24 21:35:22

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is making policymakers around the world rethink the healthcare systems of their respective countries. There have been growing concerns over how to make the healthcare sys...

Supportive environment a prerequisite for post-pandemic inclusive development

Hossain Zillur Rahman 2020-10-23 21:46:05

Covid-19 has not just put the economy in a momentary crisis; it has forced the people to rethink the entire paradigm of progress. The issue of post-pandemic recovery calls for inclusive development of...

Role of mobile phones in household welfare, women’s empowerment

Monzur Hossain and Hussain Samad 2020-10-19 18:45:21

Bangladesh has witnessed the advent of mobile phones and their swift rise in popularity among people for the last two decades. It is undoubtedly a versatile device which is said to have transformed th...

The coronavirus pandemic hits female workers the worst

Narayan Das 2020-10-17 21:10:36

To combat the novel coronavirus, many countries, including Bangladesh, imposed country-wide lockdown. The economy of Bangladesh was under the lockdown from late March to May 2020, when most economic a...

US eases economic and trade sanctions on Sudan

BBC 2017-10-07 10:30:49

The US is lifting most of the economic and trade sanctions it first imposed on Sudan two decades ago. However Sudan will remain listed as a state sponsor of terror. US officials said Sudan had made...