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Making finance resilient to the smallholder farmers
We are still a heavily agro-based society and economy. Perhaps the most neglected are those that are feeding this economy – the farmers.
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Coronavirus Pandemic: Tasks Ahead
The times are different. The whole world is different. We have never faced a situation like this before. In a sense, we are all confused. As a responsible newspaper, we want to communicate authentic information to the public. The public needs to know what the tasks ahead are.
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Progress and Challenges in TB Control Programme
Tuberculosis (TB) is a global public health issue, with Bangladesh being among the 30 high burden TB countries.
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#EachforEqual
Although Bangladesh has progressed a lot in terms of women’s empowerment in the past 10 years, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030,
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Preventing discrimination and harassment of women at workplace
Millions of women across the world face sexual harassment at work. Even though reports indicate high levels of harassment incidents, more than one in three countries do not have any laws against harassment in the workplace.
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End violence against women and girls: Sharing ideas about workplace violence prevention
In Bangladesh, the proliferation of informal work has opened the doors for many women to find work. However, this has its negative sides.
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The challenges faced by women-led SMEs and the way forward
The SMEs operating in Bangladesh are important contributors to the economy’s booming sectors including industry, service and manufacturing.
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Construction Hazard: Creating awareness and the role of stakeholders
RFL Pipe & Fittings (a brand of RFL Group) in association with The Daily Star organised a roundtable titled “Construction Hazard: Creating awareness and the role of stakeholders” on December 12, 2019. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.
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Prospect of Digital Platforms in Getting Service-Related Information and Providing Feedback
Save the Children has been working all across the globe for the last 100 years to ensure the rights of the children.
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Realizing population goals: Translating strategies to actions
Bangladesh Population Policy 2012 has six objectives and 16 strategies, with most strategies having 10-12 sub-texts. Therefore, there are actually 75 strategies.
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Triggering digital transformation: Reducing operating cost and expanding customer base
We have been supporting various innovations for the last three to four years. We are now at a stage where many business models are generating useful information about how to help small businesses.
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The business partner of the future
Today, we are discussing the future of finance, and the ever-evolving job of a finance manager. We have to try to create pathways for future chief financial officers (CFOs) in the era of artificial intelligence to become business controllers, planning managers and heads.
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Use and misuse of defamation law and its impact on journalism
In a democratic society, we need defamation laws to protect individual reputation from false allegations. Unfortunately, in many cases, both in Bangladesh and abroad, this law is often misused to impose restrictions and curtail freedom of expression. It is high time we discussed how to prevent the misuse of this law.
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Investment in Skills in 8th Five-Year Plan
There is no alternative to skills training when it comes to utilising new technologies in skills development.
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Enabling fruits and vegetable export to improve farm income
Bangladesh has already achieved food security in staple crops like rice, potatoes, and vegetables. Bangladesh is the third largest growing vegetable producer and the tenth largest tropical fruit producer in the world.
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South Asia in a changing world
South Asia is a critical link to the rise of Asia and its position in the international system. With a population of 1.8 billion people, it houses one fourth of the global humanity.
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Alternative Credit Scoring: Collaterising Data for MSE Financing
The Business Finance for the Poor in Bangladesh (BFP-B) is a 25 million-pound programme to increase access to finance for micro and small enterprises. BFP-B has assisted financial sector regulators to develop regulation and common industry infrastructure that make
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A roadmap for sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis
The Daily Star in association with North South University (NSU) organised a roundtable titled “A roadmap for sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis” on September 24, 2019. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.
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Patterns and effects of climate change in the north-west Bangladesh and its policy implications
Bangladesh is one of the worst sufferers of climate change. The north-west part of Bangladesh has improved a lot in the last few years in terms of both poverty and employment but the adverse impacts of climate change are putting our progress at risk.
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Affordable homes for all
A comprehensive policy taking into account the interests of landowners, builders, financiers and prospective homeowners can give a boost to the housing sector and enable more people to own homes, said industry players and financiers yesterday.
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Bangladesh as the next destination: Deepening economic ties with Japan
Japan has been a trustworthy and dependable friend since the birth of Bangladesh. It gives Bangladesh immense pride and confidence
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Creating blended finance architecture for catalysing impact investment in Bangladesh
Over the last four years, BFP-B has made three investments in Alternative Investment Vehicles (AIV). We did this to find an alternative
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Role of family and religious values in preventing violent extremism
It’s been quite some time now since we have noticed the rise of militancy and violent extremism in the country. The Holey Artisan
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Realising the unfinished agenda of ICPD in Bangladesh
The 25th anniversary of the ICPD (International Conference on Population and Development) is a momentous occasion to assess what Bangladesh has done so far and what we need to do for the future regarding population issues. It seems that earlier, we were very intense on population
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Belt and Road Initiative: Perspective from Bangladesh
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a major undertaking. In the words of President Xi Jinping “This is the project of the century”. It
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Win back trust to thrive
Bangladesh’s financial sector is suffering from a crisis of trust among savers in the face of continued governance failure, said top
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Skills strategies for jobs
A central focus of BYLC’s work over the past decade has been in instilling values of public service in youth and equipping them with leadership skills. After having trained more than 4,000 youth, another major strand of our work now is in ensuring livelihood for them.
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People’s participation, democracy and local governance: Features of democracy in Switzerland and Bangladesh
Democracy is under a lot of pressure globally.
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Way to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Sector Wide Approach (SWAp): Opportunities and Challenges
The topic of discussion today is technical and vocational education. We would like to talk about how development partners, private
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Promoting eco-friendly production process in the RMG sector
The key question of today’s discussion is how we can sustain the growth of the RMG sector and yet protect our natural resources. We are most concerned about water. The Daily Star has written umpteen times about pollution of water sources due to inefficient management of industrial wastes.
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