Switzerland's secret vaults

When the Swiss National Bank quietly releases its annual banking statistics, most of the world barely notices. But for the citizens of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, three nations perpetually locked in a cycle of poverty, debt, and underdevelopment, the numbers buried within those pages tell a story of breathtaking economic...

Bangladesh first: reimagining economic diplomacy

The international conference titled "Roadmap for Trade, Growth and Economic Diplomacy: Navigating Risks, Leveraging Resilience," jointly organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) delivered a timely and powerful message: the diplomacy of the future will be economic diplomacy.The conference underscored a fundamental shift...