Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) & Awami League

In the upcoming elections, it would be foolhardy for the BNP to expect a re-run of previous results. Especially with 10 of its key members breaking away fromthe party to fl oat a new party under the stewardship of the former Bangladesh President Badruddoza Choudhary and BNP leader Oli Ahmed.

External factors contributed to her victory in 2001. However, this time, she would have to the answer killing questions related to her mis-rule, which could well ensure her speedy exit. Is there a solution for her? Well, yes. Rigging!

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Barack Obama‘08 – Can US do it!

He is billed as the most charismatic leader to have emerged in the United States of America since John F. Kennedy. His youthful exuberance and fresh ideas swept the people off their feet. And his intention to contest for Presidency in 2008, has sent alarms ringing among the front-runners in the Republicans as well as Democratic camps.

Meet the 45-year old African American, Barack Obama. Born in Hawaii, he studied in Indonesia before moving to California. If he manages to make it to the White House, he will be the first black president of the United States.

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MARKET STRUCTURES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Most product markets comprise four distinct tiers: A global customer segment that wants products of global quality and with global features – that is, offerings with the same quality and attributes that goods in developed countries have – and is willing to pay global prices for them; a “glocal” segment that demands products of global quality but with local features (and local soul) at less-than-global prices; a local segment that wants local products with local features at local prices; and a bottom-of-the-pyramid segment, as Michigan University’s C.K. Prahalad calls it, that can afford to buy only the most inexpensive products.

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Latin American economies have proved more open to foreign investments than Asia

On the brighter side of things again, Latin American economies have proved more open to foreign investments than Asia. Since the 1950s, foreign multinationals have controlled far larger shares of industrial production in Latin America than in the East Asian success stories, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development. The World Bank reported that foreign investment and privatization have tended to substitute for other capital flows in Latin America, transferring control and sending profits abroad, unlike East Asia.

Meanwhile new socio-economic programs under way in Latin America are reversing patterns that trace back to the Spanish conquests – with Latin American elites and economies linked to the imperial powers but not to one another. Of course this shift is highly unwelcome in Washington, for the traditional reasons: The United States has expected to rely on Latin America as a secure base for resources, markets and investment opportunities. And as planners have long emphasized, if this hemisphere is out of control, how can the United States hope to resist defiance elsewhere?

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It is high time for the policy makers

Despite having only one percent of the world’s vehicles, India accounts for nearly 10% of its fatalities. The Motor Vehicles Act of 1988 has yet not been revised; the draft National Road Safety policy and draft National Road Transport policy are lying on paper only; and there is no legislation that regulates the pedestrians and non-motorised vehicles. As India progresses economically, it cannot afford to lose precious human lives as they form a very important constituent of the country’s assets. It gets even worse if those who die in road related accidents belong to 15-40 year age group as they form the most productive group in an any economy’s human resources.

It is high time for the policy makers to think out of the box and find out a comprehensive solution for this complex problem, if they are at all serious about transforming Indian cities into world class cities.

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