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The Panama Papers: What is so new?

The Panama Papers: What is so new?

Muhammad Mahmood 2016-04-28 21:01:01

It took me a bit of time to comment on the Panama Papers because it didn't seem appropriate to comment on the issue as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ ) were rel...

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Towards a holistic approach to education

Towards a holistic approach to education

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2016-04-28 19:26:50

Rethinking Education: Towards a global common good? Published by UNESCO, 2015 Pages 84, ISBN: 978-92-3-100088-1   "Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace." ...

Handling discrepant documents against LC

Handling discrepant documents against LC

Nironjan Roy 2016-04-27 20:05:37

While working in a commercial bank in Bangladesh, I met one senior colleague who was well conversant with letter of credit (LC) transaction, particularly negotiation of export documents. One day I...

Hailing a Hero

Hailing a Hero

Abdul Bayes 2016-04-26 19:53:49

Today is the 80th birthday of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG, the founder and chairperson of BRAC. He was born into the distinguished Hasan family of Baniachong under Habiganj district on April 27, 1936...

The Bangladesh story: Test case to paradox

The Bangladesh story: Test case to paradox

K.A.S. Murshid 2016-04-25 18:43:44

The Bangladesh story has not been properly told. It is a powerful and compelling story that deserves far greater attention from international and national development experts. This is the unlikely...

White collar crime: Bangladesh perspective

White collar crime: Bangladesh perspective

Dilwar H Choudhury 2016-04-24 19:36:08

White collar crime is an urban phenomenon, an offshoot of the urban affluent society. It is different from street crimes in that it is non-violent. Its impact is not felt immediately but the ripple...

Financing in international trade: An overview

Financing in international trade: An overview

Sarder Nurul Amin 2016-04-24 19:14:36

Unlike domestic trade, international business can not be performed without the involvement of banks of both buyer and seller as a standard foreign currency is involved for payment of the goods. Tha...

The case against helicopter money

The case against helicopter money

Michael Heise in Munich 2016-04-22 19:26:07

Despite years of expansionary monetary policy, the European Central Bank (ECB) has failed to push inflation back up to its target of "below but close to 2%." The latest measures - a zero interest r...

ETP in textile, garment sector: Scope for private-public partnership

ETP in textile, garment sector: Scope for private-public partnership

Sakib B Amin and Asif Azam Khan 2016-04-22 19:07:11

We have all witnessed how the textile and apparel sector for Bangladesh has flourished with exports to the foreign countries. The "Made in Bangladesh" tags have spread all over the world. BGMEA (Ba...

Small - both beautiful and bountiful

Small - both beautiful and bountiful

Imtiaz A. Hussain 2016-04-21 18:24:55

Is the Bangladesh tank half-empty or half-filled? The half-empty version is loaded with apprehensions: the share of private investment to the gross domestic product (GDP) fell from 22.07 per cent i...

Failure of nations: An incisive look

Failure of nations: An incisive look

Syed Mahbubur Rashid 2016-04-21 18:05:09

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power Prosperity and Poverty By Daren Acemoglu and James A Robinson Published by Profile Books Ltd., London, UK The book under review contains 1...

Suicide: Social, medical and cult contexts

Suicide: Social, medical and cult contexts

Shihab Sarkar 2016-04-21 17:56:36

The newspaper report about a young man taking his own life in the capital the other day cannot but depress one. Incidents of suicides by male youths are not much frequent these days. The young man...

World steel glut and China\'s role

World steel glut and China\'s role

Sayed Kamaluddin 2016-04-20 19:28:46

As the world's second largest economy and the largest exporter of goods, China has once again hit the headlines in the world media - both print and electronic. Of course, China's hogging gl...

The role of micro-insurance in agriculture financing

The role of micro-insurance in agriculture financing

Shah Md Ahsan Habib 2016-04-19 18:49:01

Insurance is a crucial financial service for the poor, but it constitutes a much smaller market among poor and low-income populations than credit and savings. Insurance is a fundamentally different...

Industrial transformation for creating green employments

Industrial transformation for creating green employments

Md. Mojibur Rahman Bhuiyan 2016-04-18 17:58:17

2016 is an important year for the workers of the world. Workers in the global economy witnessed two great economic recessions which have caused job loss of one billion people and fall in real wages...

Ensuring an enabling environment for investment

Ensuring an enabling environment for investment

M Jalal Hussain 2016-04-18 17:56:41

There's no alternative to production and investment to compete and to survive in this globalised world. Investment means expansion, modification and change in businesses and industries. An inve...

Ten faces of the South Asia\'s rural consumer

Ten faces of the South Asia\'s rural consumer

Sourajit Aiyer 2016-04-16 18:43:16

The rural consumption opportunity (including the non-metro towns) has been a common topic of discussion in several investor conferences recently. Why the rural people buy as they do, and how they b...

Mainstreaming American Muslims

Mainstreaming American Muslims

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Virginia, USA 2016-04-13 19:11:57

In the mayhem that took place in Lahore, Ivory Coast, Brussels, Paris and San Bernardino, California in recent past, the assassins were disgruntled Muslim youths and the victims of assassinations w...

War of words between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders

War of words between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders

Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA 2016-04-12 18:32:00

Since the April 05 Wisconsin primary election, the war of words between Hillary Clinton, Democratic front-runner for nomination in the US presidential election, and Senator Bernie Sanders, Hillary&...

Giving every child a fair chance in life

Giving every child a fair chance in life

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2016-04-07 17:53:43

All children have the rights to survival, developing and reaching their full potential without discrimination, bias or favouritism. The Convention on the Rights of the Child also draws our attentio...

Dhaka\'s theatre movement

Dhaka\'s theatre movement

Shihab Sarkar 2016-04-07 17:38:55

In a country just tasting independence after a Liberation War, the people invariably feel the urge to embark on a large-scale resurgence. It becomes incumbent on every sector in the national life t...

Policy economists find justification for uniform tariff

Policy economists find justification for uniform tariff

Jamaluddin Ahmed 2016-04-01 17:48:28

The academic case against a uniform tariff seems impeccable. How can then uniform tariffs be justified? There are three answers.  First, policy economists generally think in terms of the protection...

Writing under siege: Universal experience

Writing under siege: Universal experience

Shihab Sarkar 2016-03-31 17:25:33

Creative persons find themselves under one or another state of siege at some point of their careers. For some, its duration is agonisingly long. Think of a writer in a war-torn country in the Middl...

Translating awareness into action for women empowerment

Translating awareness into action for women empowerment

Lauren Colegrove 2016-03-29 17:11:34

It is often seen as the responsibility of the government or large non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to address societal issues that negatively affect women. After all, it is the government that...

Terms of trade and current a/c balance in BD

Terms of trade and current a/c balance in BD

Muhammad Shafiullah and Faridul Islam 2016-03-28 21:50:43

The concept of terms of trade is important for an open economy. This is so because it can be seen as an indicator of the health for an open economy. So, a relevant question is: what is terms of tra...

Money hacked from Federal Reserve: BB should move carefully

Money hacked from Federal Reserve: BB should move carefully

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No sooner had our banking industry tackled ATM fraud than the Bangladesh Bank (BB), the guardian of the country's banking sector, itself received a big blow of hacking money from its reserve ac...

Connecting to global value chain

Connecting to global value chain

Chenai Mukumba 2016-03-04 23:32:45

Evidence has shown that in certain sectors, developing countries are actually more integrated into global value chains than developed countries. The garments and textile industry in Asia provides a...

Big banks shattered by 2008 economic crisis

Big banks shattered by 2008 economic crisis

Nironjan Roy 2016-02-19 23:06:51

Last four decades have witnessed the fastest growth of the global financial market. The finance industry all over the world has gone through rapid expansion during this period. Worldwide monetary n...