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Leather sector needs more support

The debate over how long the government should be dishing out incentives, often in cash, to export-oriented sectors, is still on. Despite this, it is indisputable that the country's manufacturing base still stays in its infancy, even after four and a half decades of its independence. As for the leather...

Gender-biased SME credit

Is small and medium enterprise (SME) credit discriminatory against women? Its gender biasness is reflected in the disbursement of such credit. Women entrepreneurs hardly get this type of loan according to their demand. In the first six months of the current fiscal year, such entrepreneurs received only 2.79 per cent...

Foreign workers, remittance and tax

At long last, the tax revenue authority has decided to do something about the alleged tax evasion by foreign workers.The National Board of Revenue has reportedly asked a number of companies to put their respective foreign workers on the payrolls and ensure payment of tax by the latter. But the...

No more flyovers please!

SHOMA works at a government hospital and goes to her office from her Arambag residence to TB gate regularly by public transport. She is pregnant although her pregnancy is at an early stage. She goes to office either via Moghbazar to Link road and then to TB gate or straight...

Tackling Rohingya cildren's malnutrition

ROHINGYA children who have been entering Bangladesh along with their parents suffer from malnutrition, according to reports published in local newspapers. For obvious reasons these children do not get proper diets with required nutrition value. Different NGOs and other organisations have been offering foods for them, but it is extremely...

River pollution and its effects on life

THE other day I was reading a news item about water pollution in China. According to the report, despite Chinese government spending a whopping US$850 million over the past five years, China is yet to reverse the damage caused by decades of random pollution of rivers. It is indeed very...