Sabbir Ahmed 2019-06-28 21:35:08
The proposed budget for the financial year 2019-20 was presented to the nation through the national parliament on June 13. It is the 48th budget of the nation and the first budget from the incumbent...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nazran Zhafri Ahmad Johari in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2019-06-28 21:13:54
With growing economic conflicts triggered by US President Donald Trump's novel neo-mercantilist approach to overcoming his nation's economic malaises, many voices now argue that bad free trade agree...
Asjadul Kibria 2019-06-27 21:33:50
There is a wave of revisions and terminations of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) in many developing countries for the last few years. The main reason for the move is unbalanced nature of In...
Asjadul Kibria 2019-06-27 21:27:05
Flaws and vulnerabilities of the current model of capitalism are well exposed. Nevertheless, a large number of mainstream economists and capitalists are yet to recognise the fact. They are rather pu...
Shihab Sarkar 2019-06-27 21:19:36
The season of monsoon has started making its arrival felt in the country. Like in the past, this year is no exception. According to Bangla calendar, the month is Asharh, the first of the two-month...
Stephen S. Roach 2019-06-26 21:05:28
Blinded by a surging stock market and a 50-year low in the unemployment rate, few dare to challenge the wisdom of US economic policy. Instant gratification has compromised the rigour of objective and...
Busani Bafana 2019-06-26 20:58:49
A Jamaican start-up has an innovative solution to help smallholder farmers-many of whom do not have the collateral demanded by financial institutions to access loans-build a track record of their prod...
Lena Lavinas 2019-06-25 21:42:37
Universal basic income (UBI) is hardly a new concept, but it has taken on a new life in recent years. Voices on both the left and the right now argue that a UBI could be the key to addressing major so...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-06-24 20:51:40
What is so promising about 2019 is that we are half way through without an economic collapse: time to start peeking at what 2020 might bring. Yet, what is so disconcerting is the continual absence o...
Mirza Azizul Islam 2019-06-24 20:42:07
Financial sector of a country encompasses a wide variety of institutions. Those include banks, capital market, insurance companies, nonbank financial institutions etc. This article focuses on the trea...
M Rokonuzzaman 2019-06-23 21:19:13
China is known to be offering huge incentives to its private sector. Such perception is not incorrect. For example, according to a media report, "at an average subsidy of $10,000 per vehicle, China's...
Md. Abdur Rouf 2019-06-23 21:17:04
After many ups and downs since its enactment in November 2012, the new VAT law is finally going to be implemented from July 01, 2019. The business concerns which mainly stood in the way of its imple...
Mushfiqur Rahman 2019-06-22 21:35:34
President Donald Trump blamed countries like India, China and Russia for not doing enough on climate change and justified America's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement 2015. During President T...
KM Mustafizur Rahman 2019-06-19 21:16:12
In the development agenda, health has always remained a cross cutting issue. Without ensuring accessible and improved health facilities for its citizens, a nation cannot reach its desired development...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram in Kuala Lumpur and Michael Lim Mah Hui in Penang 2019-06-19 21:12:16
Financialisation has involved considerable 'innovation', often of opaque, complex and poorly understood financial instruments. These instruments typically have large debt components involving leveragi...
Mowshumi Sharmin 2019-06-19 21:03:09
The issue concerning the effect of fiscal policy on growth is quite old. However, recently the extent to which fiscal policy affect growth has attracted both theoretical and empirical debate especiall...
Shamsul Alam 2019-06-18 21:18:46
Only five countries have managed to graduate out of the 'Least Developed Country' (LDC) status and became 'Other Developing Countries' since the formation of LDC group in 1971. However, in terms of...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-06-17 21:42:31
Much like the 22-year-old Pakistani, Malala Yousafzai, Sweden's Greta Thunberg is out to change the world. Malala's gender-accented children-based education advocacy won her the Nobel Peace Prize (w...
Abu Sayed Md. Shaykhul Islam 2019-06-17 21:26:50
The banks and financial institutions of the country are now facing difficulties at maintaining healthy liquidity due to increasing size of non-performing loans (NPLs). As such, they cannot provide fin...
Md. Joynal Abdin 2019-06-17 20:47:49
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, along with the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, proposed the national budget for fiscal year 2019-2020 in the Jatiya Sangsad on June 13, 2019. The proposed budget, am...
Shamsul Alam 2019-06-16 20:51:22
International trade has been the primary engine of facilitating income and accumulating wealth around the world in the post-WWII period. The goal of progressive trade liberalisation has been universal...
Muhammad Zamir 2019-06-16 20:20:39
We have been witnessing civil resistance movements taking place all over the world for the past year. Venezuela, Spain, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Algeria, Tunisia, Yemen and Thailand have been in the headl...
Hasnat Abdul Hye 2019-06-15 21:26:04
The media in Europe and, not to be left behind, in America is abuzz with news about a Trojan Horse at large on the shores of the old continent. Since the spectre of the animal as a metaphor for surrep...
Syed Ejaz Ahsan 2019-06-14 21:30:34
Globally, stock markets are an alternative source of funds for joint stock companies. This is where small investors can invest their savings by buying shares and debentures. The stock exchange is also...
M. Zakiul Islam 2019-06-13 21:55:39
If you want to study two phenomena, best way is to study either the contrast or the congruence or both. Whatever be the method, the above caption has one common denominator … the British Empire...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-06-13 21:32:28
Bullying, including cyber bullying, is a key concern for children. It affects a high percentage of children at different stages of their development, often severely undermining their health, emotion...
Dani Rodrik in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 2019-06-12 21:13:39
US President Donald Trump has used national security as a justification for his tariffs on steel imports, his threatened tariff hikes on autos, and the tariffs he recently vowed to impose on Mexican...
Bazlul Haque Khondker 2019-06-11 20:54:49
Economic growth and poverty reduction performances have been very impressive in Bangladesh during the last few years. Real economic growth has been hovering above 7.5 per cent rate and poverty reduc...
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Remittances from migrant workers are important for the Bangladesh economy. Workers' remittances are currently the second highest source of foreign currency for our economy. In 2018, the country earn...
Caley Pigliucci 2019-06-11 20:37:46
Venezuelans in the city of Washington D.C., in the United States, are currently without consular protection as access to their country's embassy has remained unstable since April. "I went to get my p...
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