Haradhan Sarker 2020-01-01 20:58:14
Liquidity being one of the most critical dimensions of a commercial bank, its management (planning and controlling) carries paramount importance not only to the bank concerned, but also to the regul...
Rafiqua Ferdousi and Eshrat Sharmin 2019-12-31 21:10:05
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been one of the major driving forces of growth, industrialisation, economic diversification and structural transformation for many countries. For this reason, most...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2019-12-31 21:05:14
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of BRAC, world's largest non-governmental organization (NGO), passed away in the evening of December 22 at a hospital in Dhaka. His death marked the end of an era. I...
Md Easin Molla 2019-12-30 21:40:00
The most significant regulation for international shipping industry regarding air emissions is the upcoming IMO Global Sulphur Cap to reduce air pollution from ships. In October 2016 the International...
Shihab Sarkar 2019-12-30 20:46:26
Over the last one-and-half years, tour operators and tourism experts have been predicting an auspicious time in the near future. The second half of the last year didn't see its expected heyday. The...
Shamsul Huq Zahid 2019-12-29 21:49:07
The remittance inflow remains to be one of the few silver linings in an otherwise not-so-buoyant economy at the moment. The remittance earnings, according to a report published in The Financial Exp...
David Sainsbury in London 2019-12-28 21:27:38
Over the last 25 years, the relative growth rates of the world's major economies have changed dramatically. Six developing countries in particular - China, South Korea, India, Poland, Indonesia, and T...
Hasnat Abdul Hye 2019-12-28 21:24:02
Intelligentsia, economists included, have a sort of love-hate relationship with economic growth. They love it because growth means increasing volume of goods and services that help to uplift standard...
Biniam Bedasso in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2019-12-27 20:48:21
As Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed collects this year's Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, his country is at a crossroads. In one direction lies a democratic transition, via a successful general election...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-12-26 21:04:43
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." So said abolitionist Wendell Phillips in 1852, and so believed constitutionalist Thomas Jefferson in the 1770s. Does the argument hold water in a perpetu...
Shihab Sarkar 2019-12-26 20:17:59
There are a few typical scenarios found in rural Bangladesh in the period starting from December up to February. Lots of them have nearly vanished. Still a number of the spectacles remain with their e...
Tanvir Chowdhury 2019-12-25 20:41:28
Any conscious citizen who would travel to Barishal from Dhaka via river (approximately 215 kilometres), should be horrified to see how passengers including launch company employees pollute our rivers....
Mohammad Taqi Yasir and Anam Hossain 2019-12-25 20:30:47
Trademark is a private right and is essentially another word for brand name. It can be any name, word, symbol, slogan, or device that serves to both identify and distinguish a business or product from...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled 2019-12-25 20:22:01
A photograph published on a national English daily recently tells us a tale of harrowing condition that the poor and street children live in. It shows that some children are sleeping in an insecure...
Shah Ahsan Habib 2019-12-24 21:00:44
'Supportive policy and regulatory environment' is the key precondition for banks' digitisation journey. Bangladesh government's Digital Bangladesh by 2021 vision proposes for mainstreaming ICT for gre...
Shah Ahsan Habib 2019-12-23 21:51:48
The first of a two-part article The term 'Digitalisation of documents' narrows down the scope of the complete transformation process that commonly starts with automation and then migrating...
Muhammad Yunus 2019-12-22 21:30:45
Abed has left. But it is not possible to bid farewell to him. He remains with us as our companion forever. Since the Liberation War he is in the very grain of our society. There is no layer and...
Maswood Alam Khan 2019-12-22 20:49:09
When the death of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was announced on Friday night, a deep note was struck in our lives which must have resounded in the minds of those who care about the future of our country, who...
Preety Bhandari 2019-12-21 22:07:42
After a disappointing 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, there is a need to restore confidence that the intergovernmental process can deliver on mitigation, adaptation, and finance. The 2...
Fenella Aouane in Seoul, South Korea 2019-12-20 21:56:48
One of the main discussions at the COP25 climate change talks (December 02-15, 2019) was Article 6, which is designed to provide financial support to emerging economies and developing countries to hel...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-12-19 22:09:05
The ability to learn is the most marked trait of human beings. Learning is a process - a journey. It actually takes place throughout our life, in different ways and in different contexts, beginning wh...
Farhana Haque Rahman 2019-12-17 20:30:19
By any measure this has been a devastating year: fires across the Amazon, the Arctic and beyond; floods and drought in Africa; rising temperatures, carbon emissions and sea levels; accelerating loss o...
Md. Abdus Sattar 2019-12-15 20:59:21
After contracts for official procurement in Bangladesh are awarded, they are reviewed at least annually on the basis of issues such as delivery, quality, cost, time and services. But the review is n...
Rafiqua Ferdousi 2019-12-15 20:54:19
In today's fast-changing world, agility and future-readiness are critical components of building economic resilience and staying ahead in the race of competitiveness. According to the "Future of Job...
Abdullah Ar Rafee and Ahmed Mostafa 2019-12-14 21:04:33
"Climate Change is humanity's greatest threat in thousands of years….which could lead to the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world," said famous naturali...
Muhammad Mahmood 2019-12-14 21:00:49
Global debt continues to grow steeply with no end in sight now hitting a record high in the first half of this year. According to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), global debt surged...
Thalif Deen at UN Headquarters, New York 2019-12-14 20:53:28
Appearing before 17 judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Thursday (December 12, 2019) Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto civilian leader of Myanmar, became a public apologist...
Mirza Azizul Islam 2019-12-13 22:19:17
A Central Bank is the term often used to describe the authority responsible for policies that affect a country's supply of money and credit. It has become a symbol of a country's sovereignty in the ar...
Dani Rodrik in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 2019-12-13 21:21:55
Inequality looms larger on policymakers' agenda today than it has in a long time. With the political and social backlash against the established economic order fuelling the rise of populist movement...
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Onion price spirals have been a cri de coeur for quite some time from all quarters. The persistence of price spirals and unabated price hike of onions has increasingly becoming an obvious fallout of w...
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