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Income growth leads to increased urbanisation, which due to higher concentration of the population in smaller geographical areas can cause higher rates of infectious diseases. Bangladesh…
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England has now entered the strangest phase to date of its Covid experience. Though the health secretary insisted, in a tweet he eventually deleted, that we…
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Why Bangladesh needs force majeure clauses RMG retailers in the West rely on timely shipments to fulfil time-sensitive customer orders that impose penalties on Bangladeshi garments…
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The people of Myanmar face an unparalleled national three Cs (coup, COVID and climate change) crisis today as we confront a failed military coup, catastrophic third…
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The Sri Lankan High Commissioner-designate to India, Milinda Moragoda, has communicated to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, that frequent, multifarious and systematized interactions with India from the top-most…
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System change is required to avert potential catastrophes such as climate change-induced weather events, declining agricultural productivity, and future pandemics. But it is difficult to get…
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Whether social media networking sites are a boon or a bane depends on how we use them The world today is a dangerous place. So, we…
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By Michael Johnston, Scott A. Fritzen New York: Routledge. 2020. One of the authors had a paper turned down for a 1987 conference because studies of…
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Covid pandemic, frequent lockdowns worsen the plight of pellet victims Mohammad Ashraf Wani, from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, was 25 when he was hit in the…
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As the U.S. brings its long war in Afghanistan to a close, the Chinese government this week hosted a Taliban delegation in the port city of…
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This innovative project focuses on three questions: Is there a left/right/populist distinction to practices corruption/anticorruption? If so, is there a difference in the outcomes of anticorruption…
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AS concern grows in Pakistan about the fallout of the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, protracted fighting that morphs into a civil war will pose severe…
