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The Financial Express

New reality absent in budget

The annual budget for 2021-22 has been placed by the...

Data, not conjectures, key to development planning

Soon after the announcement of the national budget by the...

Exorcising nations of dark past

Treating a class of people with ethnic bias by another...

Budgetary goals and vaccination 

The economic growth of any country is now inextricably intertwined...

Apt policy to address growth-inequality trade-off

Finance, globalisation, technology and urbanisation - key drivers of economic...

Climate change stares us in the face

Even by the turn of the century, the subject of...

Celebrating the golden jubilee budget

The nation this year is celebrating the golden jubilee of...

Women in agricultural work

As evident from official statistics, the participation of women in...

Solar power - more than off-grid energy  

Until recently, solar power has mainly been an off-grid power...

Changes in nature of postal service

The Prime Minister's inauguration of the 14-storey new Postal Building...

The landmark credit swap

Something incredible is happening. Bangladesh has decided to lend $200...

Middle-class in need of government support

Taxing the rich to 'serve' the poor is akin to...

Dealing with black and white fungi

While the nation is engaged in a protracted battle against...

Time to decode Bangladesh-Israel trade

From now on, Bangladesh passport is 'valid for all countries...

Lessons of history to help end pandemic

As the world approaches the one-and-a-half-year mark of Covid-19 pandemic,...

A fresh look at CSR in pandemic time

Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic began to unleash havoc on...

Whither Israel-Palestine peace

While this write-up was being prepared in the midst of...

The questionable trade-off

Finance minister Mr Mostafa Kamal's recent statement that the budgetary...

Stock market and government

Stock markets behave like the governments in developing and least...

Holders of ill-gotten wealth should be held to account

The current provision of legalising undisclosed fund, or black money,...

The changing colour of money

The presence of a sizeable volume of black money is...

Economy upended by pandemic

The partial lockdown enforced throughout Bangladesh since April in the...

Taking stock of services sector

Services sector in the country is perhaps one of the...