Abdullah Shibli

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.

Sarah has not seen Naeema since then. She had heard from her other sons that Naeema is teaching in a school and staying with her mother.

The call to prayer wakes Sarah up every morning. There are at least three mosques surrounding her apartment and each of them take

The news that foreign hackers attempted to off $101 million from Bangladesh Bank's account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York need not be viewed as a catastrophic failure...

BANGLADESH is now poised at a historically opportune moment to initiate a “green tax” on carbon-emitting fuels. International oil

Is the world economy coming to a catastrophic, grinding crash? Would we see a global meltdown with GDP in a tailspin...

It was on a Monday morning that I was running late for work. To compound my problems, traffic was heavier than usual and only later,

While lower fuel cost may keep the cost of driving low and the opportunity cost of conservation high, the setback is predicted to be temporary.

Many years ago, in 1992, after Amartya Sen had just moved to Cambridge, USA, to take up his residence at Harvard University, I met

Bangladesh is in the frontlines of mounting costs of climate change. With the United Nations Summit on Climate Change scheduled to

The number one and number two global economic powers, USA and China respectively, appear to be venting their frustrations with each

In the coming months, the world economy will go through a period of gusty weather. A key indicator of global financial well-being is

At the forthcoming Climate Change summit in Paris, two parallel threads of conversations will take place in different conference rooms:

In these times of interconnected economies, China's recent economic troubles seem to be the last straw that broke the camel's back. First of all, less growth in China spells trouble for its trading partners. But there is another worrisome development for ROW. China, after years of goading from IMF and US economists, is undertaking a policy shift in an attempt to change its economic growth paradigm.

Two recent op-ed articles on the pages of The Daily Star caught my attention. The first one was written by architect and planner Adnan

There is a saying, “If it ain't broke, don't fix it!” Do we as a nation suffer from the same mindset? I am talking about the total dependence of the country on one group of commodities for its exports. Over the last two decades, we have successfully realigned our

During the 1992 presidential campaign in the USA, candidate Bill Clinton's campaign adopted a very powerful short message to convey to the party faithfuls and voters that the poor performance of the US economy should be the centerpiece of any conversation to unseat the incumbent President George Bush.

Financing of the efforts to mitigate the climate-change effects and provide resources to the affected countries is an important element of the next international agreement. Progress on commitment of resources to fund climate projects has been, as expected, sluggish.