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Bangladesh has some US$28 billion in foreign currency reserves. A comical typo saved Bangladesh's central bank from losing as much as US$1.0 billion to hackers. But of the US$101 million...
Investors, by and large, want a burgeoning stock market, but such a market also brings in more risks than a normal or submerged bourse. In a surging stock market, everyone,...
There is a proverbial story that once a woodcutter went to the forest with an axe when a tree told him, “the handle of your axe is one of us”....
According to Mercer's18th annual quality of living survey (2016), European cities continue to offer the world's highest quality of living. The vast region of Asia has considerable variation in this....
Finally, there is something on the proposed Competition Commission. News reports say that the Bangladesh Competition Commission (BCC), the newly designated entity to look after various kinds of market scheming...
It is often seen as the responsibility of the government or large non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to address societal issues that negatively affect women. After all, it is the government that...
Technology Neutrality is a policy approach that allows the use of any technology in any spectrum band. That means, with technology neutrality in place, the mobile operators can offer services...
Writing about elections in Bangladesh is an experience one should avoid as far as possible, because of the repulsion besieging the mind. It is a nation which has never been...
Before crossing a city road one would pause for a while. He or she ought to check on the approaching traffic and become sure about not being hit by a...
Famine, hunger, malnutrition, etc. are often used interchangeably which should not be the case. According to international institutions dealing with food security such as the International Food Policy Research Institute...
The concept of terms of trade is important for an open economy. This is so because it can be seen as an indicator of the health for an open economy....
For a small open economy, exchange rate stability is vital for promoting trade and welfare. In Bangladesh, sustained stability of its exchange rate has been a cornerstone of the government's...
Bangladesh is producing around 18,144,000 litres of industrial fuel per year, worth US$ 9,072,000 to substitute furnace oil or industrial diesel by adopting pyrolysis technology to recycle around 50,400 tons...
The headline of the lead story of yesterday's issue of a leading Bengali contemporary screamed, "Tk.300 billion embezzled in seven years". In fact, the amount mentioned in the story was...
A legion of reasons, guesses and conspiracy theories keep circulating about why Lehman Brothers failed in 2008. This week, previously unreported incidents emerged that should forever keep the blame squarely...
Two business plans are on the table for the $491 million leveraged buyout of Landmark Luggage by KMM Capital. One promises to make about 3.2 times its money, the other...
The World Economic Forum envisaged that global gender parity would be achieved by the year 2014. They also projected in the following year that a slowdown in the frosty pace...
In a year marked by volatility of commodity prices, Dhaka City has ranked joint 71st with Canadian city Montrea. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU's) 2016 Worldwide Cost of...
The Brussels carnage of 34 innocent civilians committed apparently by the jihadists has triggered global outrage. Millions of people belonging to different religious faiths have joined hands in condemning the...
There was no bank in the old past nor was there any money as we see them today. But there were transactions among the people; transactions were carried through exchange...
The World Water Day this year has brought into sharp focus the need for treating water issue with the high priority it deserves. This is more so because meeting the...
The decision to set up a specialised industrial zone for light engineering and electrical goods manufacturing units is a long awaited one. Materialising the project is expected to exploit the...
For the first time Bangladesh is a founding member of a multilateral development bank (MDB), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), whose majority shareholders are developing countries. AIIB, which was launched...
No sooner had our banking industry tackled ATM fraud than the Bangladesh Bank (BB), the guardian of the country's banking sector, itself received a big blow of hacking money from...
On the morning of March 09 a cargo flight of True Aviation took off from Cox's Bazar airport R/W 35 for Jessore with shrimps. The set of crew were all...
The recent death of artist and award-winning filmmaker Khalid Mahmood Mithu in a tree fall on a road in Dhaka has stunned the city's cultural world. His untimely death shocked...
A recent report quoted a doctor with Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital as saying that the reason for primary and middle school children committing suicide is that they are so worried about...
Too long time has been given to tanners to shift out of Hazaribagh, the heart of the capital city of Dhaka, to suburban Savar with their factories blamed for environmental...
In Bangladesh, the court system is mostly urban-centric. To address the serious need of protecting the majority of rural population through law, a separate court system was introduced in 2006....
Bangladesh has a solid history of poverty reduction which it can boast of. Admittedly this has largely been induced by income growth. From a feeble 4.0 per cent or less...
Regional connectivity has to be based on a wider canvas linking Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar by road, rail, water and air, if it is to deliver desired outcomes, following a...
The news that Janata Bank, too must be probed for inappropriateness in loans sanctions close to Tk 7.42 billion (742 crore) has had more impact than the now usual, if...
Research is a part and parcel of economic and technological development of a country in order to ensure better living standard for the people and sustainable development. Developing countries like...
The other day this writer was asking one of his ex-students, who is now a teacher at the Dhaka University, what the size of the Bangladesh economy is. He replied,...
The story about the hassles a public servant has to encounter to get his/her retirement benefit file cleared is an old one. The situation in this area has not changed...
The title may raise a few eyebrows. But the title justifies itself if we look at what is happening around us. Urban demand for consumer products continues to be sluggish...
Bangladesh has been found to be an attractive business destination in a recently released survey report of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO). Although there are some ifs and buts,...
Once upon a time, jute bags produced in this land used to make their way across the oceans. Dubbed 'the golden fibre', it carved the most distinctive agro-industry here stipulating...
As we today mark UN Women's Day, it is worth considering what the inequality between men and women costs South Asian countries and what can be done about it. One...
As a boy growing up in post-war Korea, I remember asking about a tradition I observed: women going into labour would leave their shoes at the threshold and then look...
Bangladesh is no longer a "basket case" as the country was derisively described by Henry Kissinger at its independence. It has attained lower middle-income status. Today none dies of starvation;...
Cropping pattern is influenced by a host of factors. It is not only the size of the owned land but other important factors such as subsistence pressure, infrastructural facilities, information...
Rags-to-riches stories are no monopoly to fairy tales. Almost two-thirds of the world's 946 billionaires have indeed relied on their financial acumen, perseverance and sense of purpose to acquire wealth...
The government has been trying hard to sell Private-Public Partnership (PPP) concept since 2009 to help implement large projects that would benefit the people. But the response from the private...
Signs of the ravages of time are everywhere. Yet one can make out the lost beauty of the sprawling park. Arrays of tall trees stand still; dust-laden bushes remind one...
Response to undertaking projects on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiative is not that much encouraging. Final agreements on only six projects have been signed so far while the feasibility studies of...
Evidence has shown that in certain sectors, developing countries are actually more integrated into global value chains than developed countries. The garments and textile industry in Asia provides an unparalleled...
With the world looking to Asia to drive economic growth, it's time to remove a major roadblock to the region's prosperity-subpar infrastructure. We need to close the infrastructure gap, and...
The Finance Minister will soon commence his annual ritual of consulting the high and mighty of the populace to prepare the draft of the next budget. This is a good...
Twenty-four years ago, in the midst of an ugly US presidential campaign, Bill Clinton's campaign manager neatly summed up his candidate's message: "It's the economy, stupid." Today, as investors struggle...
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