US showing concentration with Bangladesh betterment .The US yesterday unveiled a $210mn plan for helping Bangladesh ensure food security.
US Ambassador James F Moriarty unveiled the plan at a seminar on food security, organised by the ‘local government’ division of the Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Ministry and the USAID in Dhaka.
US President Barrack Obama last year committed $1bn annual fund to address global hunger and food security. USAID will launch the $210mn programme in Bangladesh from this fund.
Under this plan, USAID will channel the fund to ensure adequate food supply to the ultra-poor and vulnerable group of the society.
LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzak also addressed the seminar.
Referring to different programmes for food security, Syed Ashraf said those programmes had already started enhancing food security.
He, however, suggested non-government organisations (NGOs) to contribute more to strengthen the social safety net and development initiatives of the present government.
Dr Razzak also emphasized the government social safety net programme, which had already increased food allocation for the poor.
The Food Minister, however, raised concern over the impact of climate change on food production and sought more funds from the development partners to address the issue.
James F Moriarty said his government would also increase its investment in agriculture and health sectors besides the fund for food security.
He lauded Bangladesh’s progress in improving the food security for the people, but cautioned about some external and internal causes, which could hinder the progress.

The first Asia Ministerial Conference (AMC) on Tiger Conservation has decided to make efforts for doubling the number of tigers in the world by the year 2022.

A joint declaration of the conference held at Hua Hin, Thailand said Friday.

Ministers from 13 Tiger Range Countries (TRC) as well as 16 international donor agencies attended the conference.

The countries are Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam.

Russia and a dozen other nations vowed yesterday to double the number of wild tigers by 2022 by cracking down on poaching that has devastated the big cats and by prohibiting the building of roads and bridges that harm their habitats.

However, the historic declaration adopted by the 13 countries that have wild tigers – including China, India, Myanmar, and Thailand – provides for no new money for the conservation efforts.

The agreement mentions plans to approach international institutions such as the World Bank for money and projects to tap money from ecotourism.

“This is a historic meeting. Before this, not many people paid attention to tigers,” Thailand’s minister of natural resources and environment, Suwit Khunkitti, said after the three-day meeting.

Tiger numbers in the wild have plummeted because of human encroachment and poaching.

From 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, the number of tigers today is less than 3,500.

source :  www.in.reuters.com

The World Bank has raised its loan for construction of a bridge over Padma river by 54 percent to $460 million, a statement from the bank said on Sunday.

“The loan assistance will be now at $460 million instead of earlier commitment of $300 million for the construction of Padma bridge, an important project for connecting one third of the country’s population in the southwestern region,” the bank said in the statement at the end of a visit of World Bank Vice President for South Asia Isabel Guerrero.

Following up the progress of World Bank activities in Bangladesh since her last visit in March this year, Guerrero, concluded a four day visit to Bangladesh today.

During her visit, Guerrero met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Finance Minister A. M. A. Muhith to discuss the government’s priorities, including infrastructure development and regional cooperation for economic development and poverty reduction.

During the last fiscal year to end June 2008 the World Bank committed a record $1 billion to Bangladesh.

The World Bank is preparing its Country Assistance Strategy that will outline the Bank’s lending programme for the next few years.

“The World Bank will support the priority sectors of power and infrastructure, human development, social safety nets, and water resources management including the Padma Bridge

Its open secret that America is not friend of Muslim World. To change the view the new leader of US innitiated from the core policy oath. which is bringing the light to develop the real relation for Muslim World and US.

U.S. President Obama speaks at Cairo University. In his speech, Obama called for a “new beginning between the United States and Muslims,” declaring that “this cycle of suspicion and discord must end.” The address was designed to reframe relations after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the war in Iraq

IF it ain’t broke, the saying goes, don’t fix it. And so it was that the Muslim world got to hear the 2009 version of Barack Obama’s 2004 Democratic convention speech.

In the first rendition before a swarm of fellow party members, though aimed at a national audience, Obama assured Americans that we are not a nation of Red States and Blue States.

“There’s not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”

Four years later, Obama was elected president of those United States.

At Cairo University Thursday, Obama delivered essentially the same message on a slightly grander scale – telling the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, as well as the planet at large: “The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.”

The nearly hour-long speech, which contained many inspired passages, was essentially a teaching moment. A lecture, if you will. Here’s the lesson: We have to get along or we’re all doomed. Freedom works; oppression doesn’t. Your homework: Clear your mind of the past, evict stereotypes, and join the global future.

Beyond delivering core messages of partnership and a new beginning based on mutual understanding and respect, Obama made three big scores: He essentially neutralized Osama bin Laden. He managed to call Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a hateful ignoramus without ever mentioning his name.

And, he affirmed Western values of democracy, human rights, religious freedom and women’s right to self-determination – all while making Muslims feel complimented, appreciated and understood.

No small feats.

To delegitimize the man whose name rhymes with his, Obama had only to show up and not be George W. Bush. Osama the cave-dweller’s latest blurt, timed to pre-empt Obama’s speech, was more pathetic than threatening – the muffled bleat of an emasculated warrior powerless against an enemy he can no longer demonize.

Osama is the withered and quivering Gollum – seething with envy and nursing his precious hatred – to Obama’s robust and hope-driven Frodo. The forces of darkness and light personified.

Obama similarly defused the nutty nuke-chaser, Ahmadinejad. Obama was talking about Iran’s alleged desire for access to “peaceful” nuclear power and his own goal for a nuke-free world.

“The people of the world can live together in peace,” said Obama. “We know that

World economy impacts Bangladesh economy – Bangladeshi economist waching the activities and decessions of G20

On April 2, the G20 will hold a summit in London to discuss what we hope will be an internationally coordinated plan to address the world economic crisis.Robert Shiller is a professor of economics at Yale University and chief economist at MacroMarkets LLC analysis for the summit is markable !!! In his analysis he put the real facts to ocercome.

By Robert Shiller  :The basic problem, of course, is confidence. People everywhere, consumers and investors alike, are canceling spending plans because the world economy seems very risky right now.

The same thing happened during the Great Depression of the 1930s. A contemporary observer, Winthrop Case, explained it all in 1938: Economic revival depended ¡§on the willingness of individual and corporate buyers to make purchases that necessarily tie up their resources for a considerable length of time. For the individual, this implies confidence in the job, and in the end comes equally back to the confidence of industry leaders.¡¨

Unfortunately, confidence did not return until World War II ended the depression.

If the leaders meeting in London are to succeed where governments failed in the 1930s, they must commit themselves to a fiscal target that is sufficient to restore full employment under normal credit conditions. They must also commit themselves to a credit target that will restore lending to normal. People will not spend normally unless they have both a job and normal access to credit. During the Great Depression, such targets were not used on a large enough scale, merely fueling public despair that stimulus policies would ever work.

The G20 Summit should also be an occasion for affirming some basic principles. Confidence isn¡¦t built up on the basis of spending or lending alone. People need to believe that the money represents something more lasting than stimulus measures, which may eventually end in failure. After all, the Great Depression did not end simply because of the massive stimulus of war-related expenditures. Why should World War II have produced any confidence in the future?

To be sure, World War II reduced the unemployment rate in the US dramatically ¡X from 15 percent in 1940 to 1 percent in 1944, and had a similar effect in other countries. But this was not because of a revival in business confidence. It was because of a nasty war, plain and simple, with people drafted into fighting or into industries supplying the war effort.

The real recovery of confidence did not occur until after World War II, when the world did not sink back into depression. The US Council of Economic Advisors warned of this possibility in 1949, and it was not alone.

There appears to be more than one reason why confidence came roaring back. First, there was a general perception of ¡§pent-up demand.¡¨ After years of privation (and, in many countries, the physical destruction of war), people just wanted to live normally ¡X to rebuild and to own a home, a car and other consumer goods.

The widespread impression that there was such pent-up demand also led people to believe that there could not be another depression. The perception of pent-up demand was like a powerful economic stimulus package, and it had the advantage that people believed it would be long-lasting. Indeed, the same long-term confidence triggered the post-war ¡§baby boom.¡¨

According to some contemporary observers, however, ¡§pent-up demand¡¨ was only part of the story. During the brief but deep recession of 1949, the financial commentator Silvia Porter reflected on the attitudes that led to the 1929 crash: ¡§We saw nothing wrong ¡X in fact, we saw everything right ¡X with the wild speculative boom and credit inflation that ¡K culminated in the now almost unbelievable gambling orgy of 1929.¡¨

But now, Porter wrote, after the depression and war, ¡§We began to listen to the idea that a hundred million citizens, acting through a central government, could achieve much more than a hundred million acting as separate selfish units. We developed, in short, a new attitude toward the responsibilities of government.¡¨

She concluded that the positive effect of ¡§pent-up demand¡¨ and government measures can ¡§make sense only when viewed against the background of our changed economic and political philosophy.¡¨

The Marshall Plan, which operated from 1947 to 1951, became a symbol of this new attitude. The US gave billions of dollars in aid to rebuild war-ravaged countries in Europe. The plan was widely viewed as reflecting a new kind of enlightenment, a recognition of the importance of supporting people who needed help. Europe would not be allowed to languish, and the stimulus came from abroad.

After the war, Keynesian economic theory, which was generally not accepted or understood during the Great Depression, became the basis of a new social compact. It was a theory that was perfectly suited to a generation that had just endured exceptional sacrifices, for it reaffirmed a belief in our responsibility for each other. The effect of economic stimulus is redoubled by this kind of inspirational belief.

That is why all of the commitments made and intentions expressed at the upcoming G20 summit matter. The countries represented must show a generous spirit and make the world economy work for all people. Seemingly peripheral issues, like aid to the developing world and the poor, who suffer the most from a crisis like this one, will be part of the primary story of the renewal of confidence, just as the Marshall Plan was part of that story after World War II.

ABOUT G20

Since 1999, the G-20 has contributed to strengthen the international financial architecture and to foster sustainable economic growth and development. The G-20 now has a crucial role in driving forward work between advanced and emerging economies to tackle the international financial and economic crisis, restore worldwide financial stability, lead the international economic recovery and secure a sustainable future for all countries.

 QUOTES FROM Interview of Chief Researcher of EXPLOREXDARK

If we feel World is a contry,, so How is world.?!! America the capital of world declared their odd economy….many jobless….many business stoped…….Market fall down and much more?

So economy of world is going bad????

I laugh on !!! The calculation of the world economy can be done in diffrent way !!! How it is?

Ans me few question !!!

Do you think that the production of any product ,agriculture to technology is growing down ? I say no. and if i am correct than the world economy is going good ,,,only the theory of economics and the international policies should litte updated and fine tuned.

These are the basic point to find out the way explolerxdark is working to bring a suggestion. Sanjida Afroz, the research assistant of explorexdark

said that we are working to bring a basic suggestion that can accepted and we will ensure the better world through the suggestion.

To develop a errorfree suggestion we are collecting the informations and analyzing the datas, may be by next 3 month

we will able to bring the basic line of the suggestion.