M.G. Quibria
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Why Bangladesh must reconsider its trade agreement with the US (opens the original)
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Some trade deals are negotiated. Others are simply accepted. Bangladesh's Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) with the United States, signed in the last frantic days of an interim government, looks unmistakably like the second kind. And seven months later, Dhaka is still making commitments under a bargain whose legal foundations have crumbled twice.An old grievance, formalisedThe programme that produced it began on April 2, 2025, when President Trump unveiled what his administration called "Libe
Why Bangladesh must reconsider its trade agreement with the US (opens the original)
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Some trade deals are negotiated. Others are simply accepted. Bangladesh's Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) with the United States, signed in the last frantic days of an interim government, looks unmistakably like the second kind. And seven months later, Dhaka is still making commitments under a bargain whose legal foundations have crumbled twice.An old grievance, formalisedThe programme that produced it began on April 2, 2025, when President Trump unveiled what his administration called "Libe
Bangladesh's education crisis: The future has already begun (opens the original)
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Bangladesh's educational crisis is often described as a list of unrelated problems: exam cheating, poor learning outcomes, a curriculum built around memorisation rather than critical thinking, weak technical training, politicised universities and chronic underfunding. It is not a list—it is one failure repeated in different forms. Bangladesh has largely failed to make education the mechanism for building capability and character, and every symptom can be traced back to that larger failure. The d
Bangladesh’s FDI puzzle: Why human capital, not red tape, is the real constraint (opens the original)
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Bangladesh and Vietnam started from strikingly similar places. Both emerged from war and partition in the 1970s. Both turned to export-oriented growth in the 1980s. Both built their early industrial strategies around cheap, disciplined labour and access to Western markets. Four decades later, the gap between them is stark: in 2024, according to UNCTAD data, Vietnam attracted $20.17 billion in foreign direct investment, while Bangladesh drew just $1.27 billion — a fifteen-to-twenty-fold differenc
The new world of geoeconomics: From comparative advantage to coercive advantage (opens the original)
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Until recently, international economics was taught mainly as a story of efficiency. Countries traded because they differed in factor endowments. Labour-abundant economies exported labour-intensive goods; capital-abundant ones exported capital-intensive products. Trade encouraged specialization according to comparative advantage, capital flowed towards higher returns, and consumers benefited from lower prices. In the most stylized versions of the theory, integration even promised a quiet converge
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