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Poor corporate governance in banking sector

Poor corporate governance in banking sector

Mostafa Al Hossaini 2018-09-19 21:44:52

In the developed countries, stock market plays the key role in resource mobilisation through financial intermediation, but in the developing countries where efficient form of stock market is yet to fl...

Rising inequalities in Bangladesh

Rising inequalities in Bangladesh

Mustafa K Mujeri   2018-09-18 21:10:26

Since independence, overall economic inequality in Bangladesh has become pervasive; but it is avoidable. The rising inequality has emerged not only because of differences in what people inherited and...

From Toronto Pearson Airport to Hazrat Shahjalal Airport   

From Toronto Pearson Airport to Hazrat Shahjalal Airport  

Abdullah Mohibuddin   2018-09-18 20:58:29

To begin with a real-life air travel experience in Canada. I needed to go to Regina, the capital city of Saskatchewan Province. I bought the airline ticket through Air Canada's apps. One day prior to...

Education Day 2018 and students' movement

Education Day 2018 and students' movement

Quazi Faruque Ahmed 2018-09-16 21:56:38

Education Day enters 56th year today, September 17. On this day in 1962, school student Babul, bus conductor Golam Mostafa and domestic worker Waziullah sacrificed their lives in support of the moveme...

The global economy's fundamental weakness

The global economy's fundamental weakness

Richard Kozul-Wright 2018-09-15 21:43:31

When Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy ten years ago, it suddenly became unclear who owed what to whom, who couldn't pay their debts, and who would go down next. The result was that interbank cred...

The nouveau riche of Bangladesh

The nouveau riche of Bangladesh

Hasnat Abdul Hye 2018-09-13 21:59:08

That the rich in Bangladesh as a class is getting richer has been part of the conventional wisdom. No chapter and verses have to be quoted or numbers have to be rolled out to substantiate this common...

Energising cross-border power sector cooperation in South Asia

Energising cross-border power sector cooperation in South Asia

Jahangir Bin Alam 2018-09-10 21:20:01

South Asian countries facing challenges in efficiently meeting growing electricity demand can benefit from increased cross-border electricity cooperation and trade by harnessing complementarities in e...

Can ASEAN turn geostrategic and technological disruption into opportunity?

Can ASEAN turn geostrategic and technological disruption into opportunity?

Børge Brende and Justin Wood in Geneva 2018-09-09 21:52:52

Is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) resilient enough to thrive amid the regional and global transformations taking place today? While the global economy continues its broad-based exp...

Thriving e-commerce and its conflicting policy implications

Thriving e-commerce and its conflicting policy implications

MS Siddiqui 2018-09-07 21:56:22

Electronic commerce (popularly known as e-commerce) has picked up in Bangladesh in recent years. Modes of operation in such business vary depending on market segments or categories. Business-to-consum...

New rules for high seas: Ensuring rights of poor nations

New rules for high seas: Ensuring rights of poor nations

Essam Yassin Mohammed in London 2018-09-07 21:38:29

Over-fishing, warming oceans and plastic pollution dominate the headlines when it comes to the state of the seas. Most of the efforts to protect the life of the ocean and the livelihoods of those who...

Islamic banking: An in-depth look

Islamic banking: An in-depth look

Mohammad Arifur Rahman 2018-09-06 21:14:00

The book titled 'Essays on Islamic Banking and Finance' is a collection of some selected articles and case studies written by Dr. Mahmood Ahmed. He is Director General of Islami Bank Training and Rese...

Can the US and Russia avert a new arms race?

Can the US and Russia avert a new arms race?

Daryl G. Kimball 2018-09-05 21:32:28

Five long years have passed since US President Barack Obama proposed and Russian President Vladimir Putin unfortunately rejected negotiations designed to cut their excessive nuclear stockpiles by on...

Trump's WTO threats: A spectre of disorder in global trade system

Trump's WTO threats: A spectre of disorder in global trade system

Asjadul Kibria   2018-09-04 21:04:10

On the last day of the last month, in an interview with the Bloomberg News, President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw the United States (US) from the World Trade Organisation (WTO). "If they don't...

Alternate employment

Alternate employment

Mahmudur Rahman 2018-09-03 21:22:44

In structured societies the concept of alternate employment used to be reserved for students and those between jobs. Inflation, soaring costs of living and pay rises in dissonance with those costs hav...

Making budget documents easily available

Making budget documents easily available

Syed Mahbubur Rashid   2018-09-02 20:48:56

There was a time when the slightest leakage of information related to the national budget compelled the country's finance minister to resign. At that time, the preparation of the budget was considered...

BIMSTEC summit silent on Rohingya crisis

BIMSTEC summit silent on Rohingya crisis

Kamal Uddin Ahmed   2018-09-01 21:15:47

Participated by the heads of states and governments and representatives of South Asia and Southeast Asia, the fourth summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic...

Striking the right note: A history of paper money

Striking the right note: A history of paper money

Tadeusz Galeza and James Chan in Washington DC 2018-08-31 21:27:07

From strings of shells in the Solomon Islands to large stone disks on the Micronesian isle of Yap or wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese in Italy, money has taken many forms throughout history. Toda...

In remembrance of Kofi Annan

In remembrance of Kofi Annan

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2018-08-31 20:58:04

Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) passed away on August 18 in Bern, Switzerland after a brief illness. Kofi Annan was the seventh secretary general of the United Nations...

Rohingyas: Millstone around Bangladesh's neck?

Rohingyas: Millstone around Bangladesh's neck?

Shihab Sarkar 2018-08-30 21:50:25

Against the backdrop of the hopelessness pervading the Rohingya refugees, a grim picture is emerging with every passing day. The scenario contains a multi-layer spectrum of realities. Those give a cle...

Solar water-drawing ATMs and irrigation pumping systems

Solar water-drawing ATMs and irrigation pumping systems

Ranjit Devraj 2018-08-29 21:14:37

At New Delhi's Savda Ghevra slum settlement, waterborne diseases have become less frequent thanks to solar-powered water ATMs that were installed here as a social enterprise venture three years ago....

Tesla and Elon Musk under pressure

Tesla and Elon Musk under pressure

M. Rokonuzzaman 2018-08-28 21:00:00

Elon Musk is known as innovation Mughal at Silicon Valley of the United States. His admission of stress, from overwork and psychological pressure in leading disruptive electric vehicle innovation, had...

AmaderKotha -- a helpline for  RMG workers to resolve issues

AmaderKotha -- a helpline for RMG workers to resolve issues

Heather Canon 2018-08-28 00:00:00

The ready-made garment (RMG) industry is the main driver of Bangladesh's economy. It's also a place of opportunity for millions of hardworking women and men to make a living, support their families an...

Gearing up to face rural development challenges

Gearing up to face rural development challenges

BK Mukhopadhyay   2018-08-25 21:35:55

As rural innovation is increasingly viewed as a complex process that defies simple solutions, it has become more and more difficult to identify the types of investment and policy interventions neede...

America's hidden debt

America's hidden debt

Daniel Blitz and Robert Dugger 2018-08-25 21:27:56

Former US Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H. Summers recently quipped that, "Fiscal stimulus is like a drug with tolerance effects; to keep growth constant, deficits have to keep getting larger." P...

Bi-modal transhipment - a test case for cross-border connectivity

Bi-modal transhipment - a test case for cross-border connectivity

Asjadul Kibria 2018-08-25 20:59:17

After a series of debates and discussions for more than six years, Bangladesh formally opened the so-called transit facility to India in June 2016. Under this arrangement, Indian businessmen are allow...

Uniform mobile call rate: Subscribers' interest overlooked

Uniform mobile call rate: Subscribers' interest overlooked

Nashir Uddin 2018-08-24 21:15:20

The introduction of uniform voice call rate for the mobile phone subscribers did not bode well for majority of the users. Voice calls have become pricier with the uniform floor rate at Tk 0.45 per min...

RMG workers: Minimum livelihood needs

RMG workers: Minimum livelihood needs

Khondaker Golam Moazzem and Md Arfanuzzaman 2018-08-20 22:09:33

The livelihood issues of workers are neglected in the globally recognised ready-made garment (RMG) sector of Bangladesh. Addressing the changes in workers' livelihood need due attention not only in th...

Central banks warn against crypto currencies

Central banks warn against crypto currencies

Mushfique Ahmed Chowdhury 2018-08-19 21:35:01

United States billionaire Warren Buffet has described bitcoin as a "real bubble" and said it cannot be considered a value-producing asset. The origin of bitcoin is unclear. It is yet to be ascertained...

Edible oil import grows

Edible oil import grows

A. K. M. Fakhrul Alam 2018-08-19 21:24:42

As the consumption of edible oils continues to grow in Bangladesh in pace with population growth and economic development, the import of the commodity also increases gradually and steadily. It may be...

The case for corporate compliance programmes

The case for corporate compliance programmes

Taslim Ahammad 2018-08-18 21:08:41

Corporate compliance is an essential part of operations, no matter what industry the organisation is in. Compliance helps cover internal policies and rules as well as national and international laws....