• Time to break social, legal barriers to adoption
  • Govt’s misplaced priority
  • Management’s underbelly
  • Saudi Arabia can stop Iran from going nuclear
  • A fork in the path: growth or contraction?
  • Why deprive immigrant workers?
  • Shadhona premieres Mama Manasha Sathi
  • 33 join group art show
  • Investment of PD banks in T-bonds rises by 22.83pc
  • Broiler, salt prices rise further
  • Putin warns of civil war in Syria, rules out intervention
  • Suu Kyi urges ‘healthy scepticism’ over Myanmar reform
  • An arm made stronger by tragedy
  • Merwe boost for Prime Bank
  • Clients vandalise MLM co office
  • People still live at CU foothills amid landslide risk 
  • No principal at 31 of 45 polytechnic institutions
  • Family files case, 4 arrested
  • No new power projects in 2012-13 ADP
  • BGMEA point comes under fire
  • TIB fears instability due to rising corruption, terrorism
  • Petrobangla extends bid submission date again
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A fork in the path: growth or contraction?

IN BANGLADESH, social safety net programmes have been developed and evolved on ad hoc basis. The major shortcoming of these programmes is that they are short-term in nature and only designed to... Full story

Why deprive immigrant workers?

THE government for promoting export of some traditional and non-traditional items provides cash incentive in local currency from 5 to 25 per cent to the exporters in accordance with variety of products. Full story

Reinventing govt

THE big economic question in much of the world today is usually framed as the fight between advocates of austerity and advocates of growth. But another way to view the debate is as a contest between... Full story


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