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Zaidi Sattar 2017-05-27 20:52:52
This is truly the eleventh hour. The i's have been dotted, the t's crossed, and the budget document is all but ready to be placed in parliament on June 01, 2017. For all the pre-budget facts a...
-- 2017-05-22 19:05:23
Since the signing of the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) there has been a series of meetings at different levels and visits of heads of state and political leaders with the express aim of inc...
-- 2017-05-21 20:16:44
Whenever I am required to do an introductory lecture on government budget, I find it pedagogically helpful to begin with highlighting the similarities between a household budget and the government bud...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-05-16 19:31:04
There will be a higher tax burden on the people in the upcoming fiscal year (FY18). Finance minister AMA Muhith has already made it pretty clear. In several pre-budget talks, he said that he would put...
Sayed Kamaluddin 2017-05-15 20:35:31
Iran's ties with the European Union (EU) have clearly reached a threshold when the first Iran-EU Business Forum on sustainable energy opened in Tehran on April 29 last with European Climate Action...
Jamaluddin Ahmed 2017-05-10 19:34:37
The VAT rates in 19 Asian nations vary from the lowest 5.0 per cent to 20 per cent. Taiwan, Japan and Iran have the lowest rates. The rates in other countries are: South Korea - 10 per cent; Mongolia,...
M. A. Taslim 2017-05-07 21:27:05
The exporters of the country, especially ready-made garments exporters, have been urging Bangladesh Bank for a depreciation of the external value of the domestic currency taka for some time now. They...
Sayed Kamaluddin 2017-05-02 19:33:21
With a surge in investment in the renewable energy sector within and outside, China has clearly targeted to lead the world in promoting non-fossil fuel based power production. Because of this and a fe...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-05-02 19:16:30
When U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called a special congressional session, from March 9, 1933 to June 16 1933, to legislate the New Deal legislations, he defined more than half-a-century of the...
Forqan Uddin Ahmed 2017-04-30 21:16:05
In Bangladesh, roads have virtually become 'death-traps' these days! Recently, the government revealed that 34,918 people died in road accidents during the last ten years, although the latest...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-04-29 19:54:03
"Central problem of depression prevention has been solved'' - Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas That's what Professor Robert Lucas said in his presidential address at the 2003 American Economic...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-04-26 21:31:21
After 50 years of its long journey, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is now facing a new global reality in the fast changing world. No doubt, the ADB has played a critical role in the last five decade...
KAS Murshid 2017-04-23 20:18:08
Since 1990, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Bangladesh has been growing at a sustained 5.5-6.5 per cent per annum in real terms (or 3-4 per cent per annum in per capita terms). In 2009, our per-capita...
M. A. Taslim 2017-04-22 21:00:30
According to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data the economy of Bangladesh has done rather well during the last several years. Indeed its national accounts numbers catapult the country to the l...
-- 2017-04-19 21:15:32
The Government of Bangladesh has been increasingly reliant on the sales of National Savings Directorate (NSD) certificates for budget deficit financing. Net sales of NSD certificates stood at Tk. 28...
Stephen Matlin, Goverdhan Mehta, Henning Hopf, and Alain Krief 2017-04-19 21:07:28
On April 22, scientists from around the world will mark Earth Day by participating in an unprecedented "March for Science." The aim of the march will be to "celebrate and defend science at all levels...
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Report 2017-04-18 21:10:16
The report presents Centre for Policy Dialogue's (CPD's) perspectives in the context of the upcoming FY2018 budget by taking the current dynamics of macroeconomic performance as the reference...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-04-13 21:15:59
The expansion of Global Value Chain (GVC) has posed a new challenge to developing countries like Bangladesh. Gone are the days when manufacturing meant efforts of large factories to bring as many acti...
Maswood Alam Khan 2017-04-09 20:58:05
Exports of goods and services are the prime sources of foreign currency that we use to meet the cost of imports on which is dependent our industrialisation and ultimately our development. 'Ready-M...
Manzoor Ahmed and Sadiq Ahmed 2017-04-04 20:49:33
Bangladesh has secured impressive gains in the expansion of income, reduction of poverty and improving the basic indicators of human development. Buoyed by the success with income growth, whereby the...
Rushidan Islam Rahman 2017-04-03 18:57:11
Economics is all about choices. The theory of social choice by Kenneth J Arrow has played a revolutionary role in economics. But even without going to the rigorous theoretical analysis it can be said...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-04-01 19:19:54
European Union (EU) leaders gathered in Rome on Saturday, March 25, 2017, exactly sixty years after the singing of the Treaty of Rome which eventually led to the founding of the EU. They met at the sa...
Sayed Kamaluddin 2017-03-31 20:19:55
Following a recent decision of India to fast-track six hydropower projects, worth $15 billion, in the India-controlled Kashmir, tension has apparently risen along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor...
Azraf Uddin Ahmad 2017-03-28 20:22:33
Since the culmination of 2005 as the International Year of Microfinance, success of microfinance in Bangladesh and elsewhere led to a reassessment of the world's development process. Thanks to the...
-- 2017-03-27 20:09:52
Whether the country's economic growth is generating required or sufficient employment is a matter of debate. Policy makers believe that 7-plus growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is su...
Zaidi Sattar 2017-03-22 19:58:53
Bangladesh's least developed country (LDC) status has come under scrutiny by policymakers and development practitioners alike. In a Policy Research Institute (PRI) analysis titled Bangladesh in LD...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-03-15 18:53:21
Bangladesh, though still a least developed country (LDC), has already caught up with the modern trend of electronic commerce or e-commerce. It means business transactions, buying and selling of produc...
Sadiq Ahmed 2017-03-12 21:11:45
The tax performance of Bangladesh fares rather poorly, relevant international evidence shows. The most telling weakness is that the Bangladesh tax effort (9.0 per cent of gross domestic product or GDP...
Sadiq Ahmed 2017-03-11 19:51:05
Bangladesh has made tremendous development progress over the past several years and now aspires to reach upper middle-income status by the World Bank's income grouping criteria by fiscal year (FY)...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-03-08 19:45:28
Global geo-politics is becoming increasingly volatile. No wonder, it is the President of the United States Donald Trump who is fuelling the volatility. His steps in the last seven weeks at the helm of...
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