Mineral Extraction in Bangladesh: Some Fundamental Reform Suggestions

Mentoring in biostatistics: some suggestions for reform

Mentoring is routinely used as a tool to facilitate acquisition of skills by new professionals in fields like medicine, nursing, surgery, and business. While mentoring has been proposed as an effective strategy for knowledge and skills transfer in biostatistics and related fields, there is still much to be done to facilitate adoption by stakeholders, including academia and employers of biostati...

Some Suggestions.........

I wish to bring a few issues to the attention of our fellow professionals for their consideration and further action through our professional body (of IPS) as may be deemed fit. The first three issues are about functional aspects of our Indian Psychiatric Society , which I consider have acquired unhealthy flavour; and, the fourth issue is about a policy that should actively and urgently be purs...

hepatitis b in bangladesh: further suggestions

Some Methodological Suggestions

Rather than providing a big picture about monetary policy, I appoint myself as a discussant of the two papers presented in this session, one on inflationary expectations by Galati, Poelhekke, and Zhou, and the other on the recent commodity boom by Erceg, Guerrieri, and Kamin. For each of the two papers, which I take to be the best industry practice, I will suggest an alternative methodology. My...

Administrative Reform in Bangladesh: Where to Start?

Expansion of the private, NGO, and international sectors has made administrative reform very urgent in Bangladesh. The rigidity of the government pay scale in presence of private and international pay scales has led to a bad equilibrium in the government service factor market. This bad equilibrium has led to decline in effort and quality of entrants. It has led to an unhealthy gap in official a...