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The covid-19 pandemic hit global sustainability very hard. It slows down worldwide growth and affects health, environment, education, business, and manufacturing worldwide. Global inequality is increasing. The world was under lockdown fully or partially for several months to fight against the coronavirus from the beginning of the declaration of the covid-19 pandemic. During the lockdown, the world mainly depended on different technologies for global mobility and control pandemics, mostly digital technologies. This technological advancement will play a revolutionary role in all the affected areas' sectors during and after the covid-19 pandemic. Where the 4th industrial revolution will run faster to minimise the global losses. The countries are not yet comprised of the 4th industrial revolutionary system, and technologies will require faster adoption of the industry 4.0 standard and technologies to add value to the global value chain. Skill development for the unskilled or low-skilled workforces and the development of the innovative ideas for the new products and services for business and manufacturing will be the key policy issue of the world to adjust with the industry 4.0 standard specification, work and environment to achieve the goals of SDG 2030.

It is wellknown that real national income of an
export-oriented primary producing country may be significantly affected
by a change in its terms of trade with the rest of the world. The demand
for a country's exports is beyond its control; but a central authority
may be able to influence its terms of trade by controlling the other
blade of the scissor. Through direct and indirect controls over the
allocation of domestic investment, the central authority may seek to
regulate the domestic production of export goods and also of import
substitutes, thereby influencing the supply of exports and hence terms
of trade of the country. To do this rationally is one of the crucial
planning problems faced by the majority of primary-producing
underdeveloped countries many of which do have some central authority,
planning and controlling in one way or the other the direction of
investible resources between different sectors of the
economy.

This paper examines the combined effect of three socioeconomic deprivations: education, wealth, and health on the utilisation of maternal health care services (MHCSs) among Bangladeshi women using the data of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2014. Both bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses were employed in this study. Multivariable logistic regression analysis is used to examine the effect of the multidimensional socioeconomic deprivations on the use of MHCSs. Of the women who had given at least one live birth in the three years preceding the survey, 43% were non-deprived by any dimension; 31% were deprived in one, 20% in two and 6% in all three dimensions. The prevalence of receiving four or more antenatal care (ANC) services was 31%; 38% used facility-based delivery (FBD) and 42% sought skilled birth assistance (SBA). When education and wealth deprivations were combined, women were significantly (P<0.01) least likely to seek assistance from SBA (OR=0.18, 95% CI: 0.14-0.24) and FBD (OR=0.17, 95% CI: 0.12-0.22); and when all three deprivations were combined women were less likely to receive ANC at least once (OR=0.16, 95% CI: 0.12-0.22) than those who were not deprived. Programmes should be undertaken to expand maternal health voucher schemes in more sub-districts and quality of care should be ensured for equal accessibility and availability of MHCSs targeting deprived and disadvantaged areas and women to ensure safe motherhood practices in Bangladesh. Our findings show that the situation of maternal health care in Bangladesh is not satisfactory.Antenatal care