Finance News: Latest Financial News, Finance News today in Bangladesh

Proper use of remittance funds

A study paper presented at the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM) has come up with, among others, two critical observations on remittance use at home. First, the remittance sent by migrant workers is not spent adequately on education and health by the receiving families. The second one is...

Irrigation: When machines overtake men

Nobel Laureate Arthur Lewis maintains that developing countries grapple with the problem of unlimited supply of labour. The evolving agricultural practices in Bangladesh apparently defy this postulate. Facing a wage hike and shortage of labour, they have become increasingly mechanised with the passage of time. The spree of mechanisation has...

Leaks of questions: A digital remedy

The country's education is in dire strait or should I say in doldrums. If education is the backbone of a nation, the backbone of Bangladesh is sure to become too weak and fragile to help the nation stand on its own feet. The reasons are many. Poor infrastructure, substandard text...

Public health issues and challenges

THERE has been a marked improvement in public health in Bangladesh over the past three decades. Life expectancy at birth is approximately 70 years, just above the World Health Organisation's world average of 69 years. Maternal mortality, infant and child mortality, and malnutrition rates have all declined substantially, and Bangladesh...

Excess doctors in Bangladesh

A Bangla daily referring to a research publication of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) reported that in the near future MBBS doctors and graduate dentists in Bangladesh would not get employment they deserve. There were 11,529 qualified physicians in 2016 and there would be more of them in the...

Hats off to 4G Service

THE Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (BTRC) has recently accorded approval to a long-awaited 4G (Fourth Generation) service and the initiative for launching the service was grabbed by all the mobile operators right away. A 4G is the fourth generation broadband cellular network based technology that succeeded 3G. 4G provides advanced...