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Combating corruption: Ensuring transparency, good governance

We might not like it but Bangladesh once again has found itself in the list of the most corrupt countries of the world. According to the latest Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) report, we have moved downward in the Transparency International Perception Index (TIPI), 2018 released on January 29, 2019. According...

The posts begin to move

In the wake of the news that some $5.0 billion dollars were whisked out of the country's currency market in 2015, the new Finance Minister's decision to appoint audit and accounting firms to probe the bank scams is a signal that is music to the ears. The question could well...

The ghosts of Versailles: Price of setting expectations too high

It has now been just over 100 years since the opening of the Paris Peace Conference, which produced the Treaties of Versailles, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Trianon, and Sèvres, bringing an end to World War I. To this day, resentment over the Treaty of Trianon fuels Hungarian nationalism and revisionism, particularly under...