UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the youth to be part of decision-making steps with their ideas and innovations to build a future which would be resilient and sustainable both at this Covid-19 pandemic period and also the post-pandemic one.
“The Covid-19 is forcing both the pace and scale of workplace innovations. These silver linings are thin compared to the scale of the disruptions though,” she said. The Prime Minister said this while virtually inaugurating ‘Dhaka-OIC Youth Capital 2020’ and its first
event the ‘Resilient Youth Leadership Summit’ from her official residence Ganobhaban through video conferencing connecting youths from OIC countries and beyond.
The theme of this mega event is “Parity and Prosperity: For a Resilient Future.”
Sheikh Hasina said there is now one choice — human being could choose rigidity in economic and executive control or it could choose flexibility and dynamism for innovation and new ideas in the face of overwhelming obstacles.
“Probably, somewhere in the middle lies the proverbial ‘golden mean’. The youth has the great opportunity to be part of this decision-making by engaging themselves with ideas and innovations to build a future which they think would be resilient and sustainable,” she said.
Hasina said the Covid-19 pandemic has placed extraordinary demands on leaders everywhere – governments, private sector, the international community and beyond. “What leadership needs during a crisis is not a predetermined response plan but behaviors and mindsets of the people involved in the process,” she said.
Terming Covid-19 crisis a watershed, she said its aftermath could see a paradigm shift in “restructuring the global economic order” in various means.
Firstly, she said, it intensifies the pre-existing signs of unease, expressed in calls for protectionism and more restrictive trade, immigration and visa policies. But it also highlights the need for global cooperation for the basic survival of humanity.
Secondly, the Prime Minister said, signs and signals are clear that the Covid-19 could end up surpassing the financial crisis of 2008-2009 in economic damage. But it also opens new avenues for networked financing and wealth creation.
Thirdly, Hasina said, there has been economic intervention already on a scale that has not been seen for decades.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the youth to be part of decision-making steps with their ideas and innovations to build a future which would be resilient and sustainable both at this Covid-19 pandemic period and also the post-pandemic one.
“The Covid-19 is forcing both the pace and scale of workplace innovations. These silver linings are thin compared to the scale of the disruptions though,” she said. The Prime Minister said this while virtually inaugurating ‘Dhaka-OIC Youth Capital 2020’ and its first
event the ‘Resilient Youth Leadership Summit’ from her official residence Ganobhaban through video conferencing connecting youths from OIC countries and beyond.
The theme of this mega event is “Parity and Prosperity: For a Resilient Future.”
Sheikh Hasina said there is now one choice — human being could choose rigidity in economic and executive control or it could choose flexibility and dynamism for innovation and new ideas in the face of overwhelming obstacles.
“Probably, somewhere in the middle lies the proverbial ‘golden mean’. The youth has the great opportunity to be part of this decision-making by engaging themselves with ideas and innovations to build a future which they think would be resilient and sustainable,” she said.
Hasina said the Covid-19 pandemic has placed extraordinary demands on leaders everywhere – governments, private sector, the international community and beyond. “What leadership needs during a crisis is not a predetermined response plan but behaviors and mindsets of the people involved in the process,” she said.
Terming Covid-19 crisis a watershed, she said its aftermath could see a paradigm shift in “restructuring the global economic order” in various means.
Firstly, she said, it intensifies the pre-existing signs of unease, expressed in calls for protectionism and more restrictive trade, immigration and visa policies. But it also highlights the need for global cooperation for the basic survival of humanity.
Secondly, the Prime Minister said, signs and signals are clear that the Covid-19 could end up surpassing the financial crisis of 2008-2009 in economic damage. But it also opens new avenues for networked financing and wealth creation.
Thirdly, Hasina said, there has been economic intervention already on a scale that has not been seen for decades.
