Michael Renner | 2015-12-02 00:00:00
It is sheer coincidence that Paris was struck by terrorists on the eve of a key climate conference known as COP 21. To some, the attacks may appear like an unfortunate distraction in the face of efforts to meet a...
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Guido Schmidt-Traub, and Jim Williams | 2015-12-02 00:00:00
In the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, more than 150 governments submitted plans to reduce carbon emissions by 2030. Many observers are asking whether these reductions are deep enough. But there is an even...
M. A. Taslim | 2015-12-02 00:00:00
The modest export basket of Bangladesh during its early years was extremely concentrated. Only two products, viz. raw jute and jute goods, accounted for nearly 85 per cent of the total export. The concentration declined gradually to 63 per cent...
FE Online Report | 2015-12-02 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) opened higher on Wednesday, maintaining the previous sessions’ upturn, the fourth session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 12.77 points or 0.27...
Siddique Islam | 2015-12-02 00:00:00
The central bank is set to review the interest rate on fund under its ongoing Financial Sector Support Project (FSSP) in January next, officials said. Country's senior bankers urged the Bangladesh Bank (BB) to reduce the interest rate on the...
Syful Islam | 2015-12-02 00:00:00
Construction of the country's third seaport at Paira may cost the exchequer US$20 billion (more than Tk 156 billion), according to a draft feasibility study conducted by a British farm. Of the amount, some $3.5 billion will be needed for...
Munima Sultana | 2015-12-02 00:00:00
The launch of passenger bus services under the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) grouping may miss its deadline for further delay in ratifying the motor vehicle agreement (MVA) by two nations. Sources in Dhaka said this delay will also hold back protocol signing...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-12-02 00:00:00
Businesses were found to be in an aggressive mood at an inter-active discourse on value added tax (VAT) payment with high officials of the National board of Revenue (NBR) early this week. "We are willing to pay VAT, not bribe",...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-12-02 00:00:00
Government's ongoing efforts to raise the number of taxpayers failed to deliver much as the total income-tax returns submitted this year by individuals remained almost static over last year's. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) received some 1,092,032 tax returns...
Saleh Akram | 2015-12-02 00:00:00
Capital flight from Bangladesh has, of late, become a growing concern for policy makers and social thinkers. Recently, there had been several newspaper reports on money going out of the country through illegal channels or legal inflow of foreign exchange...
Christine Lagarde in Washington DC | 2015-12-02 00:00:00
As world leaders convene in Paris this week for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, their task will be to reach a global agreement on curbing greenhouse-gas emissions. A successful outcome, demonstrating that countries can work together for the good...
Saleh Akram | 2015-12-01 00:00:00
Capital flight from Bangladesh has, of late, become a growing concern for policy makers and social thinkers. Recently, there had been several newspaper reports on money going out of the country through illegal channels or legal inflow of foreign exchange...
Christine Lagarde in Washington DC | 2015-12-01 00:00:00
As world leaders convene in Paris this week for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, their task will be to reach a global agreement on curbing greenhouse-gas emissions. A successful outcome, demonstrating that countries can work together for the good...
FE Online Report | 2015-12-01 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hour of trading on Tuesday, the third trading session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 29.61 points...
Siddique Islam | 2015-12-01 00:00:00
Overall lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) grew nearly 14 per cent in the first nine months of the current calendar year following the strengthening of monitoring and supervision by the central bank. Scheduled banks and non-banking financial institutions...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-12-01 00:00:00
The government is set to finalise the Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) of the current fiscal (FY) by January 2016, officials said. In this connection, a review meeting on progress of the current Annual Development Programme (ADP) will be held...
Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA | 2015-12-01 00:00:00
Despite growing protests since 2012, Argentina's outgoing president Christina Fernández de Kirchner, who represented the leftist Justicialist Party, remained defiant till the end. Having reached Argentina's two-term limit as its president, she became ineligible to run for the third time....
Abdul Bayes | 2015-12-01 00:00:00
'Small Farms: Changing Structures and Roles in Economic Development' is a study undertaken by Joachim von Braun and Alisher Mirzabaev of the Center for Development Research (ZEEF), Bonn. Drawing on various empirical studies, and as paraphrased below at times, the...
Jack Goldstone for Reuters | 2015-12-01 00:00:00
As world leaders gather in Paris this week to address climate change, they will labour under the shadow of recent attacks by Islamic State (IS). Yet as they think about climate issues, they should remember that the connection between climate...
FE Online Report | 2015-11-30 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading on Monday, the second trading session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 20.88 points...
Munima Sultana | 2015-11-30 00:00:00
Bangladesh Railway's revenue income from cross-border container service declined 13 per cent in the last fiscal year over the previous fiscal primarily for a fall in cargo transportation by train. Official data showed that BR earned Tk 223 million as...
Talha Bin Habib | 2015-11-30 00:00:00
Bangladesh and Thailand will hold a joint-working group (JWG) meeting early next year in Dhaka to discuss bilateral trade, investment and connectivity, officials said. The joint meeting being held after nearly a decade is also expected to review duty-free and...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2015-11-30 00:00:00
The securities regulator is set to incorporate a couple of provisions in its public issue rules under which the aspirant companies would require to declare their future financial growth projection in IPO prospectus. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC)...
Neil Ray | 2015-11-30 00:00:00
India is sucked into a whirlpool of debate over the comment made by one of its finest actors, Aamir Khan on the raging intolerance in the land of Gandhi, the non-violence guru. So violent is the reaction that even a...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-11-30 00:00:00
The government of Bangladesh and the World Bank (WB) are now reportedly holding talks on the availability of $200 million from the latter to help improve operational efficiency of nine state-owned banks (SoBs). A report, published in the Financial Express...
Neil Ray | 2015-11-29 00:00:00
India is sucked into a whirlpool of debate over the comment made by one of its finest actors, Aamir Khan on the raging intolerance in the land of Gandhi, the non-violence guru. So violent is the reaction that even a...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-11-29 00:00:00
The government of Bangladesh and the World Bank (WB) are now reportedly holding talks on the availability of $200 million from the latter to help improve operational efficiency of nine state-owned banks (SoBs). A report, published in the Financial Express...
FE Online Report | 2015-11-29 00:00:00
A three-day international power, solar, real estate and construction exhibition will be held in Dhaka early next month. The exhibition will begin from Thursday. Event management firm CEMS will organise the exhibitions such as 15th Power Bangladesh, 10th Solar Bangladesh,...
FE Online Report | 2015-11-29 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) witnessed upward trend while the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw negative trend in early hour of trading on Sunday, the first trading session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up...
Jalal Hussain | 2015-11-29 00:00:00
Most of the developed economies started investing heavily on economic and social infrastructure in the early 1960s. Developing and underdeveloped economies, however, were far behind in this field. Infrastructure of a country has been termed by economists as the foundation...
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