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Boosting formal credit for women entrepreneurs

The finding of a sample survey that institutional loans are still eluding small women entrepreneurs is truly disappointing. The survey carried out recently by the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) has revealed that a paltry 3.01 per cent of loans disbursed by banks and other financial institutions to small...

Gains from building regional corridor

Speaking at the closing session of the two-day India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum in New Delhi recently, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the South Asian countries should eliminate 'misperceptions and false apprehensions' to strengthen regional cooperation and development.In the past decades, nations have seen many lofty regional...

Keeping harvest festivities alive

After a prolonged season of rains, the country's cycle of seasons appears to have skipped the post-monsoon autumn. Over the last week, the annoyingly humid heat affecting Dhaka seems to be vanishing fast. The mercury continues to drop, and if untimely showers do not mar the citizens' eager wait for...

Mentoring for BD students

Many Bangladeshi students struggle in beginning and continuing study in new atmosphere in Germany. They face difficulties in arranging accommodation, bank registration, insurance coverage, securing part-time jobs and also taking care of themself. Many of them are shy in communicating with others including senior students.Thus, a number of Bangladeshi students...

Landlessness

Number of landless people in rural Bangladesh has declined to 2.32 million from 3.26 million in a decade, shows the latest Agriculture Census by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Experts have attributed this progress to impact of remittances on the rural economy as well as migration of people to the urban...

Stopping corruption

When Bangladesh has been a global role model for its development attainments, the country's common people are getting frustrated with poor medi-care services. They face problems in getting services at government offices. People are going abroad for availing of medicare facilities. On the other hand, money is being siphoned off...