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‘Free Visa’: Challenges and opportunities in Middle East

The Middle East (ME) countries have channelised the recruitment of migrant workers meant both for government and private employment through kafala (sponsorship) system. Under this scheme, the original employers request kafeel (sponsor) to obtain government permission for appointment of overseas...

Rising cost of public transport

Despite a number of efforts, public transport system in the...

Inequality index: The global scenario 

Inequality income has been a global phenomenon for long and...

The fundamentals of industrial psychology

Industrial psychology is almost as old as psychology itself. It...

Declining innovation productivity

Upon exploiting labour and natural resource advantage in fuelling economic...

Adopting a new approach towards industrial cluster development

Ensuring employment at optimum level for citizens who can work...

Can Eurozone reform help contain Trump?

US President Donald Trump is using economic warfare to pursue...

'Politics' in grooming educated Muslim girls in South Asia    

Muslim women and girls are usually viewed as oppressed victims...

Poor rural households doing better but income inequality rising

There are various factors to fuel income of rural households....

What distorts the growth story of Bangladesh

The final estimate of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...

Choosing appropriate SME development approach

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered to be the...

G20 Women's Summit pushes for rural women's rights

Rural women play a key role in food production, but...

Trump intensifies trade war with China: Its ramifications

President Trump has further intensified trade war with China by...

Refund of tax: Woes of taxpayers

Income tax is a levy on income. The collection of...

Asia Cup 2018: India's off-field stranglehold

What is it that the International Cricket Council or ICC...

Arms race: The case for a no-first-use policy

Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 film Dr. Strangelove delivers an eerily...

Reformers' thoughts on education

'Education' is a social phenomenon as well as an indispensable...

The ever beckoning overseas shores

Some haggard and apparently dazed Bangladeshi unskilled workers have recently...

Changing trends in marketing agricultural crops

History tells us that agriculture in this part of the...

Japanese FDI versus WTO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has recently disclosed a...

UNGA 2018: Hasina drums up world support for solving Rohingya crisis

World leaders at the on-going 73rd session of the United...

An insider view of how the tax administration operates

One of the long-standing problems of economic management of Bangladesh...

Environmental sustainability and decent work

A green economy is one that "results in improved human...

Happy birthday to Lata Mangeshkar

Two 16-year old girls unfurled a new dawn of the...

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