Editorial

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram IN LIGHT of the uncertainty caused by the US-China trade war, the IMF expects the US economic growth to slow from a three-year high of 2.9 per cent in 2018 to 2.5 per cent in 2019, while China’s expansion has already slowed in recent years, albeit from much higher […]

US-China trade deal reported to be in the making Nick Beams MEDIA reports over past few days have suggested that China and the US are close to a deal on trade with the possibility of a signing ceremony at a summit between US President Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping within a few weeks. According to the Wall Street Journal, […]

Despite the fact that there are adequately knowledgeable traders in the business community, it cannot but defy common sense why the guild leaders of dealers in combustible chemicals and flammable substances of Churihatta — the spot of the 21 February devastating blaze at Chawkbazar killing 69 persons — after long 8 (eight) years could not […]

Idriss Jazairy HISTORY testifies that there is no end to its evolution despite what some have claimed. This is because aspirations of its actors are in constant flux and because the quest for an « ideal city » is asymptotic. Each generation wants to put its imprint on the present and to be the architect […]

Andre Damon A HALF-CENTURY after the Cuban Missile crisis that brought human civilization to within a hair’s breadth of destruction, Washington is fueling a global nuclear standoff that is, if anything, even more dangerous. Last month, the White House announced that the United States would leave the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which prohibits […]

Irrefutably unique in the annals of mankind, the campaign for due recognition of our mother tongue Bangla—popularly known as the Ekushey Language Movement 1952—was the prelude to the struggle for the independence of Bangladesh inasmuch as the Ekushey was the spark that ignited the fervent zeal amongst the masses who took up arms against the […]

Peter Schwarz THE Munich Security Conference, which ended on 18 February, laid bare a capitalist world order rapidly breaking apart and heading for disaster. As the motto of the conference, the organizers chose the image of a fragmented puzzle and posed the question: Who would pick up the pieces. The course of the meeting made […]