Professor Mushfiq Mobarak speaking tomorrow at OCIS. Please attend if you are in Oxford.

Vietnam is set to emerge as Asia's next industrial powerhouse. Its manufactured exports per capita have increased 57-fold since 1990. This makes Vietnam the host of the world's fastest-growing manufacturing sector in this time period.

Today we need to speak about Greta Thunberg and her colleagues! All other celebrities can wait!

Great meeting today with Dr Martin Rama, former World Bank Chief Economist for the Latin America and South Asia region. Martin is so vastly knowledgeable and deeply insightful. I feel lucky that I could learn directly from him.

Back in Oxford now but seems like we left a piece of our heart in Vietnam!

Now this is what you call radical reform! vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/…

In a historic move, the Vietnamese parliament has passed a resolution today merging 63 provinces and centrally run cities into 34! This is what you call radical reform!

Finally met Chelsea Ngoc Minh Nguyen! A great friend and someone whose work I deeply admire! Thank you for visiting us at Oxford!

A promising Oxford–Vietnam collaboration is on the horizon!

Today is probably the last day for a container ship to leave Vietnam and reach a US port before the Trump tariffs come back into force on 9 July. Will factories in Vietnam now go quiet while their owners wait to see what happens?

Vietnam has agreed on a deal with Trump! One of the first movers to reach an agreement with Trump after the Tariff!

The US tariff on Bangladesh makes no sense. There is no way US will achieve comparative advantage in Garments. It will only hurt the US consumers. It is not even a high-tech sector that US should aspire to re-shore! Garments from 🇧🇩 to 🇺🇸 is a mutually beneficial trade!

Across rivers and rice fields, from chars to hills, there are voices that are left unheard. “One Land Many Voices” brings the hopes, struggles, and truths of everyday people to the heart of the nation. Because every story matters. #OneLandManyVoices

PR in Upper House would be judicious PR in Lower House would be stupid! My two cents on the current Proportional Representation debate in Bangladesh!

Thank u for the simple praise Mr Tharoor… would not have understood something more magniloquent and sesquipedalian… ha ha

“For what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim.” -Amor Towels A Gentleman in Moscow

From bad to worse. A victim of a mob, a rickshaw driver, gets arrested by the #bangladesh police on a July 2024 attempted murder case, filed months ago, where his name had not been originally listed. A police officer tells the court that new eyewitness evidence links the rickshaw