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Supplementing current measures of bank liquidity

Supplementing current measures of bank liquidity

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...

FDI policy of Bangladesh—a review

FDI policy of Bangladesh—a review

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...

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed—the pioneer of rural upliftment in Bangladesh

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed—the pioneer of rural upliftment in Bangladesh

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...

Ship owners face a stiff challenge   

Ship owners face a stiff challenge  

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...

Bangladesh's tourism: Prospects and lacunae

Bangladesh's tourism: Prospects and lacunae

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...

Remittance inflow—the silver lining

Remittance inflow—the silver lining

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...

China and the West race to the top: Innovation is the engine of growth

China and the West race to the top: Innovation is the engine of growth

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...

Redistribution with growth: The key word is 'alleviation'

Redistribution with growth: The key word is 'alleviation'

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...

Ethiopia's Peace Prize challenge

Ethiopia's Peace Prize challenge

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...

Nationalism today: Mellowed or yellowed?

Nationalism today: Mellowed or yellowed?

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...

The changing nature of wedding ceremonies

The changing nature of wedding ceremonies

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...

Alarming plastic pollution of Bangladesh rivers

Alarming plastic pollution of Bangladesh rivers

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....

Trademark registration — an overview

Trademark registration — an overview

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...

Fast rehabilitation of street kids essential

Fast rehabilitation of street kids essential

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...

Digitised banking -- Bangladesh perspective

Digitised banking -- Bangladesh perspective

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...

Digitised banking -- a key tool for efficient financial servicing   

Digitised banking -- a key tool for efficient financial servicing  

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...

You will remain our companion forever

You will remain our companion forever

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...

A visionary has passed away

A visionary has passed away

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...

Tepid COP25: Failure is not an option at COP26   

Tepid COP25: Failure is not an option at COP26  

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...

Carbon markets — a crucial part of the solution to climate crisis

Carbon markets — a crucial part of the solution to climate crisis

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...

Understanding different ways of learning

Understanding different ways of learning

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...

2019 - A devastating year in review

2019 - A devastating year in review

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...

Relevance of SPP to Bangladesh's development and environment   

Relevance of SPP to Bangladesh's development and environment  

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...

Role of private sector in  fostering human capital   

Role of private sector in fostering human capital  

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...

Security dimension of climate threat to Bangladesh

Security dimension of climate threat to Bangladesh

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...

Global debt overhang

Global debt overhang

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...

The ignoble fall of a Nobel Peace Prize winner

The ignoble fall of a Nobel Peace Prize winner

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...

The role and functions of a central bank: A quick peek into history   

The role and functions of a central bank: A quick peek into history  

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...

Tackling inequality from the middle: Creating inclusive economies

Tackling inequality from the middle: Creating inclusive economies

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...

Onion shortage and market failure

Onion shortage and market failure

-- 2019-12-12 21:26:34

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...