Amid all the uproars centring the budget speech, the finance minister deserves kudos for announcing the launching of a new Budget and Accounting Classification System (BACS) this year. Happily, this is being done in tandem with the computer-based Integrated Budget and Accounting System (iBAS++), originally introduced in 2006 and re-launched...
Read moreThe Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2016 has brought to the fore a number of interesting trends in poverty and inequality in Bangladesh. Apparently, the trends question the complacency looming large among the policy makers as far as poverty reduction is concerned. Possibly, the observations would provide some food...
Read moreFinance ministers worldwide have to be thick-skinned. Tasked with the unenviable job of finding money without raising taxes isn't easy and comes more with brick-bats than bouquets. That this is his budget swan song hasn't spared him of some raucous criticism in and out of parliament. The media has been...
Read moreThousands of registered and unregistered vehicles are plying the limited number of streets across the country. Often these vehicles are found to be at fault for nagging traffic jam. Development of transportation system is one of the major parameters to signify the growth of a country. People remain the worst...
Read moreMany people these days go to neighbouring India for their Eid shopping as they get quality goods at a very good price there. The Bangladeshi shoppers mainly visit Kolkata for shopping and the Indian High Commission in Bangladesh has made tourist visa easier for Bangladeshis so that they can buy...
Read moreChinese President Xi Jinping on June 10, 2018 delivered a speech at a large-scale meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong Province.The below is key points in his remarks on issues concerning regional cooperation and world order:When Confucius looks down from the peak...
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