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Friday, April 30, 2010

Zero supply to push Sydney rents sky high


I wrote this article in October ,2007. Two years ago what was assumption , today it is down to earth.The name of the article /topics, which I am going to discuss article “ Zero supply to push Sydney rents sky high ” written by Richard Hemming published in daily news paper "The Australian Financial Review "on 10th May 2007. The article indicates that rents are increasing very rapidly in the Sydney market (CBD) over the next two years. Because the demand of office space in Sydney CBD is increasing very much , on the other hand the supply of office space is decreasing. About the scarcity of the renting space , the writer of the article highlights the statements of Mark Clapham senior director of CB Richard Ellis’s –“ It is the year we are calling the ‘Sydney gap ’ and we have not seen this before , where nothing is coming on in one year . We are expecting rents to grow at double –digits rates instead of low single –digit rates, which we have seen in the last three years. ” (The Australian Financial Review 10 may) .The article also indicates that this scarcity of supply of office space is diminishing not only in Sydney but also in Brisbane and Perth. This article has also published some important data to highlight the supply and demand of office space in Sydney CBD , how much the demand has increased and how much the supply has decreased in recent few years . About the future, the writer predicts that no commercial office renting place is supposed to come onto the Sydney CBD market place in 2009. So it is obvious that the main issue of this article is the supply and demand of commercial renting space in the Sydney CBD market, and analyzing the reason why the price is increasing so sky high. The writer has given us the answer. He claimed that the zero supply of commercial renting space is liable for increasing rent so high.
This article can be analyzed from the perspective of microeconomics. Because the main issue of this article is the supply and demand of commercial renting space in the Sydney CBD market .Moreover supply and demand are also the most important aspects of microeconomics.
So it is very obvious that supply and demand , these two phenomenon are closely related to microeconomics .They are the two most commonly used terms in economics. Their interaction widely affect economic variable of real life . This sort of reflection has been presented in the above mentioned article. If we discuss supply and demand and their interaction from the perspective of economic theory or models . Then it should be easy for us to understand why the rent of commercial office space has increased so rapidly in Sydney CBD. Supply and demand are the two most prominent economic event of microeconomics in real life. Without these two events, it is impossible to think about economics .On the other hand price and market these two important variables are also closely interacted with supply and demand. The interaction of supply and demand obviously brings the impact on the price and which is visible on the market. Now it should be better to discuss all the economic variable, supply, demand, price and market in order to explain the relationship between these variables and the above mentioned article. About all these variable the Stonecash ,Gans ,King and Mankiw( 2003, p 64)states “A market is a group of buyers and sellers of a particular good or service .The buyers as a group determine the demand for the product , and the sellers as a group determine the supply of the product ”. So it is obvious, market is one of the pre-requisite condition for supply and demand. The physical existence or nature of market can be different on depending on the nature supply and demand of goods. But it is expected in economics that markets should be competitive. Usually a competitive market indicates that there should be a lot of buyers and sellers in the market, so that impact on the price can be very less or negligible ( Stonecash, et al , 2003) . In the above mentioned article, the market is commercial renting space in Sydney CBD. In this market, the impact on the price of renting commercial space is very high. Because in this market the number of seller is less but the number of buyer are many. As a result it has made a serious impact on the price; price has grown up so high within few years.
We should justify the market of commercial renting space in Sydney CBD from the perspective of supply and demand. It is obvious that almost all of the economic events or variables are the interaction of these two events. Supply is one of the most important economic events. Supply indicates that the quantity of goods or the amount of services, that the manufacturers or producer can provide in the market for sale. The nature of supply can be in different sorts of, some of them can be goods or some of them can be services. The main issue of these topics is the supply of commercial rental office space in Sydney CBD. Now it can be discussed in this topics about implications of the economic law of supply in the supply of commercial rental office space in Sydney CBD , or how the consequences of law of supply has been reflected in this situation .
Economic theory of supply indicates that the supply of goods increases in the markets , because the price goes up in the market , on the other hand if the supply of goods decreases in the market , due to the decrease of price in the market On the other hand the theory of demand indicates that when the price of any goods goes up ,then the demand of that goods goes down and if the demand goes down then the price goes down as well. Different economic theories indicate that supply, demand and price all are closely interrelate with each other. Every market has got two most important aspects, they are supply and demand and their interaction determine the price of a goods in the market. The relationship the price of a goods and the quantity demanded is depicted by a graph which is known as demand curve, on the other hand the relationship between the price of a goods and the quantity supplied is depicted by a graph which is known as supply curve . With the help of these tools (demand curve and supply curve) the price rise of commercial renting space in Sydney CBD can be easily understood. It can be mentioned here the writer of the newspaper article has presented one graph in the article so that the readers can easily understand the main idea. Thus sometimes different sorts of graph are used to highlight economic variables. From the topics of newspaper we can understand about the supply and demand of commercial office space renting in Sydney CBD , all the statistics given in the newspaper article indicates that supply of office space has decreased tremendously , on the other hand demand of office space is increasing at large scale , as result it has made serious impact on the price and the price of renting space has gone up too much in recent few years.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Carbon emission


In summer, temperature goes up at extreme level in some Asian countries like, Bangladesh,Indian ,Pakistan or in African countries or in Europe or America.On the other hand ,during the winter temperature goes down at extreme level of mercury in Europe ,Asia or America: just couple months ago wild freezing winter in Great Britain for couple of weeks continuously, which is unprecedented. Sea level is going up; consequently, some coastal countries are going to be engulfed by sea: their mainlands are going to be shrinked gradually,as a result ,millions of people are turning into homeless every year .Bangladesh, India are the glaring examples of this phenomenon; people of coastal areas of these two countries are terrible victims of sea level every year.Most of thepeople of these areas very poor and uneducated.Due to sea level rise , they lost all of their lands, properties and even their homes. Being homeless, they are trying to migrate to different parts of the country or to some other countries of the world.But unfortunately none of them know , why they are homeless, rather they blame their destiny.Sea level rise is the direct consequent of global warming; carbon emission is mostly liable for global warming.Any educated person can understand all the causes of carbon emission and which countries are responsible for excessive carbon emission. At present some of the poor countries are facing the disasters of global warming but sooner or later all the countries of world must face the dangerous consequences of global warming.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Long Way to home


I wanna get the smell of soil

but its long way

to get the touch of dew drops of morning

on the grass

to touch the sky line of the endless blue

but above all

I wanna get the smell of soil

I wanna touch my soil.

Soil of my love

soil of my heart

soil of my bones

Soil of my all ancestors.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Aganagar and Bhairab bazar



















        MOHIUDDIN AHMED


Aganagar is one of the Union Councils ( Union Parishad ) of Bhairab Thana of Kishoreganj district .Most of the villages of this union council are in low-lying areas and during the rainy season all of them look like islands.The lives of the people of these villages are pretty hard and frequently their lives are affected by different sort of Natural disasters



My father Mohiuddin Ahmed  was one of the persons who had spent most of his life to develop the fates of thousands of poor,  and uneducated villagers around his village Aganagar . Locally he was known to people as Bacchu Mia . During 1960s, 70s it was very popular name to people . He used love  and care his people and vice-versa.

 He was born in Aganagar in 1920s .He completed his Bachelor of Arts( BA) from Govt.Comilla Victoria college in early 1950s. And he was the first who completed Bachelor Degree at that time in Aganagar and adjacent areas .Even his father Monir Uddin Ahmed had his SSC ( at this time known as Entrance ) in early 1920s though Mohiuddin Ahmed lost his father in his childhood but he was strongly motivated by patriotism .

He could have joined in Civil Service , rather joining in any lucrative job he engaged himself in teaching .He worked as Lecturer in a college ; later joined in a school as Headmaster. After working couple of years in teaching then he got back to his own village Aganagar . He had been elected Chairman of Aganagar Union Council for couple of times until 1971.

 During the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971 he helped the Freedom fighters in a large scale by taking the risk of his own life. A  large contingent of freedom fighters used his house as reservoir of their arms and ammunitions during the liberation war of 1971 . During the tenure of his chairmanship he tired to develop the communication infrastructure by building up many bridges. He tried couple of times to established a High School in Aganagar but some anti- social , criminal groups vandalised his great project every time..He dedicated his whole life for the development of his own society . He was  a silent partriot and never liked to be expoused. This great patriot paid the debt of nature with couple years struggle with cancer on 10 th August 1985 ( may ALLAH rest his soul in Heaven forever) .




MoniruddinAHMED ( died in 1930)

my paternal Grandfather

Abdul Latif Bhuiyan ( died in 1967)

my maternal Grandfather


Keramat Ali Sarkar

my Great Grandfather

Arif Sarkar

my Great Great Grandfather

Ayenuddind Sarkar

my Great Great Great Grandfather




















Blue Mountains


Out back Australia is fascinating, whenever you travell out back, then it is terribly difficult to get back to city of bricks, concrete and life of hassles.Couple of months ago me and my wife visited BlueMountains.the scenic beauties of this place is awe-some.The whole sites belong to City of Blue Mountains. Its almost 100km from Sydney.Every year millions of tourists visit this attractions, apart from the native visitors.This is one of the World heritage sites in NSW, Australia. This place is very significant from the perspective of ecological and envioronmental, still thousands of very very ancients trees, which are are more than 2/3 hundred years; and the rocks of this area are probably millions of years old. Every where is so green and lush, unbelievalbe.Three big rocks connected together for more than thousands of years. Still they are know as "Three Sisters".what has impressed me that I have been able too see such an ancient place and trees and rocks in intact situation.Moreover, the altitude of the place is more than 1 km from sea level.-