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Activewear Craze: How a Fitness Industry Turned Body Anxiety Into a Business Model

Activewear Craze: How a Fitness Industry Turned Body Anxiety Into a Business Model

Activewear has become one of the defining fashion shifts of the past decade, moving from gym bag to daily wardrobe with a speed that caught even its own industry off guard. The clothes now travel everywhere: errands, social occasions, the school run, the home office. What has not travelled with them, new research suggests, is the confidence the industry has spent years promising they would deliver.

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Bangladesh RMG exports

The volume of world trade has not seen a healthy outlook for a few years now, and the dynamics are being dictated by trade wars more than ever. All this would mean that a small country like Bangladesh should stand extremely worried. Yet, it is not. Bangladesh is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018 fiscal year expanded by 7.9 per cent over the previous year. Industry grew by 12 per cent (10.2 per cent in 2017) and manufacturing 13.4 per cent...

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Review: Twisting the Lion's Tail

Review of Twisting the Lion's Tail

1921. America was preparing for Armageddon against the British. In the Congress, Great Britain was dubbed "a red pox spreading across the Pacific". There were calls for the United States to "seize maritime control of the world". " As war frenzy mounted, someone said, "We were Britain's colony once. She will be our colony before she is done." For the uninitiated, it may sound confounding, unbelievable. But this Anglophobia was a reality in the US between the two wars. The deadlock did break and...

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