Abdullah Shibli

Bangladesh is running out of breath as it tries to reach the USD 50 billion garments export target for 2021 set by the industry in 2014.

I read with interest a recent story on Dhaka, the city where I was born, on the pages of this newspaper.

Should Bangladesh go ahead with the coal-powered plant in Rampal? I struggled with the question for many months before I could put together a coherent line of thought and argument.

CHINA'S President Xi Jinping has been walking a very delicate tightrope since the inauguration of the new President of the USA who has threatened to launch an economic war with China.

The apartment is quiet when Sarah wakes up this morning. She doesn't feel like getting up from bed and wants to just lie there, as though frozen, for a few minutes.

All indications are that the world economy will experience robust growth in the coming months barring any oil shocks, outbreak of open hostilities in the Far East, collapse of the British economy following Article 50 notification, and a financial crisis akin to the Greek economic crisis of yesteryears.

In recent years, many developing countries have witnessed rapid growth in GDP but this has happened in sync with a surge in the number of people left behind.

Atrick Modiano, the French language novelist and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature,is an enigmatic

Bangladesh has so far been watching from the sidelines as a major international shake-up currently takes shape in the global economic and political landscape.

It is no secret that President-elect Donald Trump's election caused some concerns in the corridors of power in Beijing.

During his presi-dential campaign, Donald Trump, the candidate, made a number of promises to the US voters, and now it is time to ask whether he can deliver on them! Some of his promises are easy to keep,

According to the recently published “Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) 2016-2017”, Bangladesh is now ranked 106th among the 138 countries included in the survey.

It’s no secret that the American public is now increasingly voicing their concerns about free trade and trade pacts such as NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.

Short stories by Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, are a veritable delight to read.

Bangladesh's garments industry, for good or worse, has been on the radar screen of policy regulators, North American and European trade union movements, international lenders, as well as global activists promoting sustainable and equitable growth.

Bangladesh is well-known around the globe for its many achievements. Rapid economic progress, exceptional exports growth, universal primary education, elimination of poverty and bold strides in addressing income inequality.

There has been no respite for the major world economies from weak economic growth, a pushback against globalisation in the form of trade pacts such as TTIP and TPP, and spiralling commodities prices.

The ink has hardly dried on the Paris climate agreement (PA) document, and it appears that global attention has moved on to other urgent matters: terrorism, election politics, Brexit, and what have you.

Bangladesh is not about to face a doomsday scenario when Britain finally leaves the European Union in 2019 as expected.

The British voters' decision to leave the European Union (EU), or “Brexit”, has triggered a major reshuffling of global political and economic alignments.