In recent times, yet another buzzword called ‘Quiet Quitting’ has shown up, walking hand in hand with the popular post-pandemic phenomenon buzzword ‘Great Resignation’. While the hype may seem contemporary, it is practically old wine in a new bottle. The famous Stanle
Professor Rehman Sobhan is undoubtedly one of the few living legends of Bangladesh, who has contributed greatly to the development of the country and its people. He is the most influential member, leader, mentor, friend, philosopher and guide of the academic-economist community in Bangladesh. Above
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina joined the fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC) held in Doha, Qatar on 4-9 March 2023. The Conference was organised with the theme 'LDC5: From Potential and Prosperity'. Prime Minister Hasina has eloquently demonstrated that
Books by two prominent Bangladeshi economists have been published simultaneously and both by renowned international publishers. But their resemblances are superficial and end there as the books' content are as different as apple is from orange, their taxonomy notwithstanding. Professor Wahiduddin
Loosely speaking, Bengal has been an ethnic entity for many centuries. Mostly inhabited by the 'early Bengalees', it could be passed off in the past as the land of a South Asian ethnic unit speaking Bangla. Since they flourished in today's greater Bengal, and finally picked Bangla after traversing
After a year, the search for peace, partnership and accountability has resumed in Europe. The world has watched how NATO, the European Union, USA and Canada have taken upon themselves the role of partnership and failed to find the least common denominators that can result in peace and safety for mi
Agent banking, a new model of banking services across the developing world especially in Bangladesh, aims at providing formal banking services to the unbanked segment of the population who are excluded from formal banking services. Since agent banking can be offered without opening a full-fledged b
Where is Messi - Where is Messi? Just a few months ago, this was the ostensibly the most popular question in the world. Lionel Messi's response to it has been inarguably, incontrovertibly, and unquestionably overwhelming - Messi is at the epitome of football, with the highest title in his hand, and
A K Nazir Uddin Ahmad was popularly known as A.K.N. Ahmed, or simply by the initials AKN. He served as the second governor of Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of the country, from November 19, 1974 to July 13, 1976. The celebrated banker passed away on February 24, 2016 in Washington DC in h
There was this interesting analogy about Actions against Climate Change: you are on a boat which has experienced a sudden leakage, and water is rushing in. Now your priority is plugging the hole, but what of the water that is already in? You must act on two fronts to combat this problem and stay af
A K Nazir Uddin Ahmad was popularly known as A.K.N. Ahmed, or simply by the initials AKN. He served as the second governor of Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of the country, from November 19, 1974 to July 13, 1976. The celebrated banker passed away on February 24, 2016 in Washington DC in h
M Azizul Huq (1935-2020) was undoubtedly a pioneering figure who made unique contribution in the early stages of the establishment of Islamic banks in Bangladesh. He started his banking career with Habib Bank in1958 in Karachi, Pakistan. Since then, he has worked at National Bank of Pakistan and So
Mirza Nurul Huda - or Dr M N Huda, as he is widely known at home and abroad - was undoubtedly a prominent and illustrious Bangali of the 20th century. With a career rooted in Dhaka University as an outstanding scholar and professor of Economics, he occasionally ventured outside the academic arena f
