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Reforming investment policies

Attracting a significant amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) for the country's rapid economic growth has been one of the government's priority considerations for long. All concerned including experts and our international development partners have time and again reiterated the point. However, the inflow of FDI in the economy recorded...

Revisiting social safety net programme

How well-directed are the government's social safety net programmes is an oft-repeated question. In a country like Bangladesh with varying levels of poverty and disadvantages afflicting the masses, it is too much to ask for a cure-all solution with government programmes to address the disadvantaged groups across the country. Given...

How to break the deadlock

We haven't seen, of late, any major scientific innovation, including curable medicines and not excluding vaccines, for deadly coronavirus. The situation created by the pandemic is new to an entire generation but not the system, which mostly fails to deliver them required services and has made them somewhat depressed by...

Quality of universities

The United States enforced institutional quality assurance cell (IQAC) at universities to ensure required standard of higher education in 1900 whereas the Bangladesh's University Grants Commission (UGC) introduced the method only in 2014. However, the IQAC is yet to prove its worth as international ranking of Bangladeshi universities is going...

Cyber threat to banks, clients

All the banks in Bangladesh have taken additional cautionary measures in recent times to prevent any cyber attack and at one point postponed cash withdrawal services from booths at night. The Financial Express ran a report on September 28 titled 'Banks at grave risk of cyber attacks'. Fortunately, there was...

Changing food habit and farming potential

Demand for plant-based foods has picked up during the coronavirus crisis as consumers try to eat more healthy foods, according to a report that quoted Switch food giant Nestle as saying. Our attention has also been drawn to a Financial Express report which said that Bangladesh is focusing on high...