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Asjadul Kibria 2017-03-03 20:17:43
Are the global financial regulatory institutions and organisations doing enough to check or contain illicit financial flows (IFFs), especially from the developing countries? There is no simple answer...
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When the World Bank (WB) cancelled the US $2.0-billion loan for the construction of the Padma Bridge on the spurious ground of corruption the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) felt not only shocked and h...
Abdul Bayes 2017-02-17 19:22:19
Economic growth and employment generation are considered to be inextricably linked. In Bangladesh particularly, the most recent experience relating to growth-employment nexus does not seem to hold goo...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-02-15 19:19:56
The meeting of the Asia-Pacific Business Forum (APBF) held in Dhaka last week received significant attention from international quarters. During the February 08-09 event, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC...
M. A. Taslim 2017-02-05 20:22:03
Some people of Bangladesh are happy that Donald Trump has made it to the White House. Many of them belong to the business community and to those allied to them. One of the reasons for their support of...
SM Abu Zaker 2017-01-24 20:13:25
It is the prime duty of a banker to select the right borrowers for proper utilisation of fund deposited by the depositors. The selection process of a borrower involves thorough assessment of three "Cs...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-01-21 19:53:02
The growing sentiment against the free flow of goods and services, which is often dubbed as anti-globalisation stance, has been increasingly gaining ground in Europe and North America. This is likely...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-01-18 20:09:44
The inefficient and inadequate public transport system of the country is gradually driving the people to look for some micro-level solutions to address commuting hassles. The growing number of motorcy...
M. A. Taslim 2017-01-17 21:27:39
The economic wellbeing of a country is usually measured, for want of a better or simpler alternative, by gross domestic product (GDP). It is defined as the market value of all final goods and services...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-01-14 19:46:38
The global economy appears to be poised for very modest growth in 2016 and 2017. According to the IMF-WEO, October, 2016, the global economic growth is projected to decline to 3.1 per cent in 2016, re...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-01-11 19:35:17
International trade of Bangladesh has passed another year of buoyancy against the backdrop of global slowdown as well as some internal shocks. Sluggish global demand was particularly a matter of conce...
Selim Raihan and Wahid Ferdous Ibon 2017-01-03 21:16:15
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the set of seventeen Global Goals, initiated by the United Nations as the 2030 global agenda for sustainable development. Whilst the SDGs have come as the succ...
Sadiq Ahmed 2017-01-01 20:03:12
A TV journalist called a few weeks ago to say that he will like to interview me about the graduation of Bangladesh from the list of least developed country (LDC) status by 2024. Just a day or so befor...
M. Shefaque Ahmed Chowdhury 2016-12-27 20:21:01
Excess management expense as per cent of allowable management expense of the same set of life insurance companies declined to 8.20 in 2015 from 16.70 in 2011. Management expense as per cent of total p...
Shahiduzzaman Khan 2016-12-21 19:25:11
Energy experts say the additional amount of money that is required to meet the expenses for increased salary of the government service-holders, can be collected from the surplus fund, now left idle wi...
M. A. Taslim 2016-12-21 19:21:10
Unlike the World Bank income classification, the United Nations (UN) considers several standards and sustainability related factors besides per capita gross national income (GNI) to classify countries...
Asjadul Kibria 2016-12-20 19:33:11
Reducing the cost of trade by reducing time and money is always an important matter in global trade. A simple but long-term solution is cutting the red tape along with introducing the electronic syste...
Ren Yan 2016-12-14 21:23:31
"The WTO should abandon the surrogate country system used in anti-dumping investigations against Chinese exports as scheduled at the time of China's entry into the organization 15 years ago," Jean...
Muhammad Mahmood 2016-11-26 20:52:01
It has been widely recognised that over the last three decades and a half, income inequality has risen quite significantly not only in developed countries but also increasingly happening in developing...
Ahsan Mansur 2016-11-16 20:04:15
Productivity can be measured at different levels -- macro, sectoral, geographic, and so on. However, the most robust representation is at the level of the firm. The firm as the unit of analysis and fi...
Asjadul Kibria 2016-10-29 21:16:17
The business community has expressed concern over India's move to impose anti-dumping duty on jute and jute goods exported from Bangladesh. These items now enjoy duty-free access to India under th...
Asjadul Kibria 2016-10-20 20:21:43
Trade in services or service trade is still a confusing concept in many countries including Bangladesh. Unlike merchandise trade where visible products and commodities are exchanged among the trading...
Asjadul Kibria 2016-10-20 20:21:37
Trade in services or service trade is still a confusing concept in many countries including Bangladesh. Unlike merchandise trade where visible products and commodities are exchanged among the trading...
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The Ninth South Asia Economic Summit is being organised in Dhaka at a time when the 19th SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) summit, scheduled to be held in Islamabad on November...
Helal Uddin Ahmed 2016-10-08 20:29:41
The government of newly independent Bangladesh formed the Civil Administration Restoration Committee (CARC) in 1971 to examine and recommend measures for restoration of civil administration in the cou...
Helal Uddin Ahmed 2016-10-07 20:03:49
Within the broader context of administrative reforms, civil service reform has been a key area in the evolution of public administration and governance all over the world. As the backbone of public ad...
Asjadul Kibria 2016-10-07 19:44:41
Electronic banking (e-banking) has been growing in the country at a fast rate especially in the last few years. Bangladesh Bank is playing the key role in this growth as it is providing enabling envir...
Selim Raihan and Farazi Binti Ferdous 2016-10-03 19:16:20
Bangladesh and India have long bonds in culture and history. Despite such bonds and neighbourly proximity, economic cooperation between the two countries has remained far below potential. A number of...
Selim Raihan and Fatima Tuz Zohora 2016-09-03 20:23:12
In rural Bangladesh, a great challenge is to tackle the low pay, poor-quality jobs that are unrecognized and unprotected by law, widespread underemployment, the absence of rights at work, inadequate s...
Sadiq Ahmed 2016-08-08 19:59:21
The stickiness of domestic nominal interest rate is a related point that merits attention in order to examine the case of lack of sensitivity of private investment rates to private credit growth as...
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