So…whats an EHM?
“There were two primary objectives of my work. First I was to justify huge international loans that would funnel money to Main and other US companies (such as Bechtel, Halliburton, Stone & Webster and Brown & Root) through massive engineering and construction projects. Second, I would work to bankrupt the countries that received those loans . . . so they would be forever beholden to their creditors, and so they would present easy targets when we [the US] needed favours, including military bases, UN votes or access to oil and other natural resources.”
- Excerpt from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Read the rest here: http://brnaeem.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-is-economic-hit-man.html
Price of Vegetables and Rice
From time immemorial until around fifty years ago, vegetables and rice in Bangladesh was produced in the countryside and then brought to the towns to be sold there at a higher price than in the markets in the countryside. Now this has reversed and vegetables and rice are bought from the towns and sold in the markets in the countryside.
What this category is about
In this category I will note various changes that are being affected in Bangladesh by the powers of modernisation.
