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Has employment growth declined?

Has employment growth declined?

Rizwanul Islam 2016-08-04 17:38:46

Labour force survey on a quarterly basis was introduced in Bangladesh for the first time in 2015, and July-September 2015 was the first quarter to be covered by the survey. The results of that surv...

Has employment growth declined?

Has employment growth declined?

Rizwanul Islam 2016-08-04 17:32:15

Labour force survey on a quarterly basis was introduced in Bangladesh for the first time in 2015, and July-September 2015 was the first quarter to be covered by the survey. The results of that surv...

Making tax regime efficient and fair

Making tax regime efficient and fair

Asjadul Kibria 2016-08-02 18:15:59

Financing the incremental size of recurrent and development expenditures has become more challenging in the country in the context of limited domestic resource mobilisation. To overcome the limitat...

Brexit: Negotiating with UK for most favoured nation status

Brexit: Negotiating with UK for most favoured nation status

Syed Ashraf Ali 2016-07-10 20:46:52

Britain’s vote to exit from the European Union signals the end of a love story-- Shakespearian love story, you can say-- that did not end, as usually it does, with the pair living happily ever afte...

Brexit Yes - what will happen now?

Brexit Yes - what will happen now?

A.K. Enamul Haque 2016-07-02 18:42:43

On June 23, 2016 the United Kingdom (UK) voted for YES to exit from the European Union (EU). The news was a surprise for many. No one, including the Prime Minister David Cameron, expected this to h...

Whither multi-banking relationship?

Whither multi-banking relationship?

Burhanul Hassan Palash 2016-07-01 20:43:06

Fifty-six scheduled banks are now operating in Bangladesh with 9,197 branches out of which state-owned commercial banks have 3,673 branches and share of rural branches was 56.80 per cent having 5,2...

Capital flight: An enduring conundrum

Capital flight: An enduring conundrum

Syed Ashraf Ali 2016-06-29 18:42:36

A renewed interest on capital flight has been triggered by the data recently released by the Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a Washington-based research organisation that keeps a tab on 'Illi...

Brexit, multilateral trade and Bangladesh

Brexit, multilateral trade and Bangladesh

Asjadul Kibria 2016-06-28 18:41:27

The United Kingdom's (UK) decision to quit the European Union, known as Brexit, has spurred a new wave of debate on its impact on multilateral trading regime. Immediately after the referendum o...

Questioning official statistics: Strengthening Bureau of Statistics

Questioning official statistics: Strengthening Bureau of Statistics

Asjadul Kibria 2016-06-21 19:08:30

Questioning official statistics is a standard practice, especially for research and analysis. It doesn't mean that questions are intended to undermine national attainments. Unfortunately, it ha...

Occupational shift of rural labour force

Occupational shift of rural labour force

Abdul Bayes 2016-06-17 18:39:25

If one wants to delve into the dynamics of rural livelihood system, there is a need to observe the structural changes in the occupational status of the rural labour force. Agriculture seems to have...

Tasks ahead for RMG industry

Tasks ahead for RMG industry

Asjadul Kibria 2016-06-14 17:58:22

Growing for more than 30 years with extensive policy and financial support from the state, the apparel sector is yet to come of age.  The industry leaders still clamour for support and incentives o...

Middle-income status and the proposed Budget for FY 2016-17

Middle-income status and the proposed Budget for FY 2016-17

M. Abu Eusuf 2016-06-13 18:15:13

With a target of 7.2 per cent growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a total budget outlay of Tk. 3.40 trillion has been proposed for the fiscal year (FY) 2016-17. To implement the budget, which i...

Studying Bangladesh\'s comparative advantages

Studying Bangladesh\'s comparative advantages

Selim Raihan and Md. Jillur Rahman 2016-06-11 18:42:24

The analysis of comparative advantage is important from the policy perspective. Trade policies of a country should be tuned to promote export items where the country has comparative advantage.  The...

Impact of fiscal measures proposed for FY 2016-17 Budget

Impact of fiscal measures proposed for FY 2016-17 Budget

Masud Khan 2016-06-10 18:02:22

Finance Minister AMA Muhith placed the budget proposals for fiscal year (FY) 2016-17 in Parliament on June 02. Although some of the proposals may appear innocuous, a deeper analysis indicates that...

National Budget 2016-17: Appraisal of approaches

National Budget 2016-17: Appraisal of approaches

Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2016-06-07 20:33:20

It is a good sign that public interest on the preparation and implementation of the national budget is growing. Both the print and electronic media, as well as think tanks and the civil society act...

Budget 2016-17: No surprise except mega size

Budget 2016-17: No surprise except mega size

Mahfuz Kabir 2016-06-05 21:17:39

As a visible expansionary approach of the government, the Finance Minister has proposed a mega Tk.3.4 trillion budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2016-17. It is about 29 per cent higher than the r...

Budget 2016-17: Neo-liberal stance dominates

Budget 2016-17: Neo-liberal stance dominates

Asjadul Kibria 2016-06-04 20:14:09

In line with his previous efforts, Finance Minister AMA Muhith has outlined another national budget. As such the prime objective of the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2016-17 (FY17) r...

LDCs\' 10 questions on rules of origin

LDCs\' 10 questions on rules of origin

Asjadul Kibria 2016-05-30 19:12:37

Flexibility introduced in the rules of origin (ROO) by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in its last ministerial conference has emerged as a major gain for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs).  ...

Indian assembly elections 2016 - a postscript

Indian assembly elections 2016 - a postscript

Muhammad Zamir 2016-05-29 20:17:55

Indians as well as many in Bangladesh have carefully watched with interest the proceedings of the recent assembly electoral process (between April 04 and May 16, 2016) that have taken place in the...

Shady link of FDI with tax havens

Shady link of FDI with tax havens

Asjadul Kibria 2016-05-26 18:43:44

Globally, tax havens and offshore jurisdictions are attracting huge amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI) when many developing countries are not receiving their required FDI even providing a l...

Demand for jute goods rising in international market

Demand for jute goods rising in international market

Ferdaus Ara Begum 2016-05-25 18:41:19

Once upon a time, jute was the golden fibre of Bangladesh. The country used to earn the highest amount of foreign currency by exporting jute and jute goods. However, starting in the 1980s, due to l...

Core principles for a proper fiscal policy

Core principles for a proper fiscal policy

Sadiq Ahmed 2016-05-24 18:23:11

Along with higher growth and poverty reduction, Bangladesh has experienced a serious long-term rise in income inequality. Development of a redistributive fiscal policy to income inequality should b...

US firms invest in China amid rising tensions

US firms invest in China amid rising tensions

Sayed Kamaluddin 2016-05-23 20:12:21

Apple and 28 other US enterprises have announced their decision to invest in China to the tune of over $5.14 billion on May 13 and 14 respectively. Apple, the major American technology company, of...

Of Judgment on the 16th Amendment of the Constitution

Of Judgment on the 16th Amendment of the Constitution

Abdul Mannan 2016-05-18 19:17:30

Recently the Hon'ble High Court Division of the Supreme Court (HD of SC) declared, in a judgment, the 16th Constitutional Amendment void and unconstitutional. Thoughts fomented this writer&#3...

Brunei, a destination for Bangladeshi migrant workers

Brunei, a destination for Bangladeshi migrant workers

Mehdi Mahbub 2016-05-16 18:11:01

Less than half of the size of Sylhet division of Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam is an independent tiny sultanate on the northwest coast of the island of Borneo, wedged between the Malaysian states o...

Where the government should do the math carefully

Where the government should do the math carefully

M.A. Taslim 2016-05-16 18:03:37

The people who are egging the government on to borrow overseas are no doubt assuming that the infrastructure built with the borrowed funds will add to the physical capital that will enhance product...

Discrimination in the name of corporate governance, due diligence, compliance

Discrimination in the name of corporate governance, due diligence, compliance

Nironjan Roy from Toronto, Canada 2016-05-15 21:16:45

Few months back, one of the largest exporters in the USA had been struggling hard to realise undertaking from their bank to negotiate a LC issued by a commercial bank in Bangladesh. This is not any...

Fair competition among technology service providers: Delivering specialised e-services

Fair competition among technology service providers: Delivering specialised e-services

M Rokonuzzaman 2016-05-14 20:20:29

In the telecommunication industry, the value added service (VAS) product has an evolving definition. Conventionally, Value Added Service (VAS) originated from enhanced telecom services, which add v...

Pinning hopes on PPP initiatives

Pinning hopes on PPP initiatives

Shahiduzzamam Khan 2016-05-11 23:51:09

The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiatives of the government are reportedly getting good response, slowly but steadily. After completing the groundwork for more than five years to make it...

Why Piketty advocates release of detailed income tax data

Why Piketty advocates release of detailed income tax data

Asjadul Kibria 2016-05-11 20:16:58

Thomas Piketty has rocked the world by his monumental work 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century.' The book sheds light on income and wealth inequalities in the developed countries by using...