Not many remember an event last November rekindling a new economic domain in the country. MoTIV, an integrated creative studio in Uganda, was awarded the very first UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Prize for the Creative Economy. Our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina han

SCOPUS   If delivered, the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) may serve as a truer barometer of Bangladesh's 'graduation' to a 'developing' country by 2026 than the three CDP (Committee for Development Policy) requirements. It would clinch evidence of the country advancing to a 'develop

Are we misinterpreting the U.N. General Assembly's November 2021 decision? Entitled U.N. Resolution A/RES/76/8, it placed Bangladesh on the 'graduation' list towards a 'developing' country by the end of 2026. Economic-tainted tinges have since rippled down our spine. Getting on that list, to be sur

Patterns riddle the pandemic casualty list. Some may mean nothing, but others that do help chart any future trajectory. Our kitty already tells us the pandemic is not going away until everyone is 'social distancing', which is not happening inside the critical countries. No effective medicine can

Undoubtedly the COVID pandemic will leave many unsavory ripples. Without recognising some of them, we will never be able to tackle them, or even know where to begin. One slice of them is discussed below. It includes: economic disruption; 'social distancing' (and the 'herd' instinct); social safet

Central to conventional post-Covid-19 wisdom is that neo-liberalism has run its course, the only puzzle remaining what it will be replaced by. The answer is emerging in fits and starts throughout the ongoing quarantine, for example, the massive supply chain breakdown (See Scopus, April 06, 2020, th

[The fifth of a Post-Covid-19 Recovery series]   Crises do not have to be a dead-end, certainly not if the right lessons are learned. What this means for upwardly-mobile countries, such as Bangladesh, is to pit the pandemic with the business climate, then draw conclusions. One insurance com

Infecting about a million-and-half people, and taking nearly 100,000 lives thus far, coronavirus (Covid-19) seems set to leave an epochal economic footprint. With developed countries (DCs) at or near lockdown conditions, and emergent countries unwillingly perched at cliff's-edge, recessionary condi