Author: Amir M Sayem

National health policies of a country are important for improving the overall health of the population with the improvement of the health sector and its response to diverse health problems. In Bangladesh, the health sector plays crucial roles in the provision of health services at three tiers such as primary, secondary and tertiary and has contributed much to better health situations in terms of different health indicators such as maternal and child healthcare and life expectancy, compared to many other countries, including South Asian neighbours such as India, Pakistan and Nepal. In this respect, health policies have played important roles,…

Of course, the tourism sector is increasingly being considered as an important sector in the world. It contributes in economic and other ways. In Bangladesh, it is undeniably a significant sector. It is usually rendered as service sector but it immensely contributes to the local and national economy in a variety of ways and helps Bangladesh to earn a huge amount of revenue each year. This sector, which consists of several sub-sectors such as accommodation, transportation and travel services, food and beverage, recreation and entertainment and events and conferences, has huge potentials in economic, infrastructural development, human resource development and…

Of course, globalization is inevitable in the world and important for development. But globalization, which is usually indicative of the process by which economic, social, political and cultural aspects are integrated globally with the flows of goods, ideas, norms, values and many others across countries, is dynamic and is multi-directional, meaning that it is an ongoing process and different social, economic and other aspects of any country can be globalized, even if some countries can dominate some aspects in economic, social, political, cultural or other terms in the globalization process. It affects the economic system, political system, cultures or cultural…

The pandemic made devastating impacts across the world by causing the death of the lives of millions and bringing enormous economic loss and other negative impacts. But it reduced conflicts around the world to a greater extent. The world has already started to recover from the losses caused by the pandemic in economic and other terms with vaccination programs, increased economic activities and normalizing other activities. By this time, China has intended to increase its nuclear arsenal, while the USA, the UK and Australia formed a group called AUKUS to contain China. Moreover, Russia and China included India and Pakistan…

Of course, water is needed for everyone’s life in the world – be it a member of Homo sapiens or any other species. Without water, life cannot be even thought of. But it needs to be clean for drinking, cooking, bathing, and so on. Clean water has enormous benefits. Potable water keeps one healthy by preventing the spread of diseases and improving health conditions. This alternatively indicates that safe water results in reduced mortality, morbidity or injury. On the contrary, a lack of safe water causes diarrhea and other types of diseases. Moreover, a large number of persons die each…

Of course, teachers are respected and valued with some differences across countries including Bangladesh. This is not only because they are very important to guide students but also for a range of other crucial reasons including they disseminate good norms and values among students, the community and society. Indeed, they provide enormous time for playing their roles and responsibilities to students, the creation and dissemination of knowledge as well as their contribution to society. From the educational viewpoint, they provide services not only to the primary or elementary level but also to secondary and tertiary levels. For all of these,…

The coronavirus pandemic has brought enumerable harms to humans through taking lives, devastating the economy and many others but benefitted much to the environment, both natural and built-in, across the world, even if there are some negative aspects including the continued deforestation in the Amazon forest. Since the beginning of lockdown, the whole world has been experiencing a very different sort of environment mainly because of the absence of man-made reasons for environmental degradation. Indeed, carbon emissions declined much (according to Carbon Brief), water and air pollution that was dangerous in many countries decreased now, wild-life animal trading stopped, and…

Education, which is usually the process of gaining knowledge and developing skills and capacities, mind, characters and other qualities, is very important for all across countries. Of course, education is given in all countries and is given at different tiers such as the early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary levels. It is very important for persons who are educated as well as for their families, communities and wider societies. Indeed, education helps human beings to not only gain knowledge on diverse sorts, become aware of the surroundings and get better jobs but also improve diverse problem-solving skills, improve and refine…

The arms trade is on the rise. It is one of the most economically significant trades around the world. Each year, around one hundred billion US dollars are spent for buying arms by state and non-state actors. Usually, developed and militarily powerful countries spend more on the development of weapons than developing and less developed countries. But many developing countries are increasingly spending more on producing and buying arms for increasing military strengths. Furthermore, non-state actors in some countries buy arms for continuing civil wars or other reasons. Because of the increased arms race and conflicts, the development of weapons…

The crisis in Syria, also known as the Syrian Civil War, is a conflict among different groups with multiple agendas. But the conflict is broadly between the government and anti-government groups in Syria. Civil war has already brought enormous negative impacts including the deaths of around 500000 people, injuries of hundreds and thousands of civilians (including children) and displacements of around 12 million people from their home places as refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). Moreover, the conflict made socio-economic conditions vulnerable through devastating infrastructure (including school buildings, health facilities, roads and supply lines), damaging heritage sites, hindering economic activities,…