Abdullah Shibli

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.

Economic times in the US are not bad in comparison with the uncertainty and volatility that has gripped the rest of the world following Brexit...

When economists hand over their findings from a cost-benifit analysis to politicians, it is important to be upfront about the “ifs and buts” of the analysis, and to caution the user of the dangers of making sweeping statements about the superiority of alternative technologies or policy options.

The United Kingdom is now in the midst of a Shakespearean dilemma, “to stay or not to stay”. Voters will decide in a referendum on June 23...

He US presidential election campaign is a fascinating case study on how politics overwhelms better judgment. The case in

If we stay attuned to the experts and practitioners working in the financial and banking sectors worldwide, new threats and methods used by the crooks can be neutralised before any damage is done to our own emerging system.

More than three months have passed since the Bangladesh Bank (BB) heist, and in the interim much water has flown down the Padma, Meghna,

I hear from union leaders, labour law advocates and “garments owners”. Unfortunately, I heard different versions of what's going on in the field.

Bangladesh Government Proposes a Tk. 15 Carbon Tax”. This headline would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. However, it

What is happening in the world today? An apt manner to describe the current economic situation and future prospects is to paraphrase

Labour practices and the right to organise by workers have recently received a lot of attention in Western media, triggered by terrible industry accidents in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.