Rezaul Karim | 2016-11-12 00:00:00
State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has sought immediate approval for US$ 50 million loan taken out from the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a senior BPC official said. The state-run agency sent a letter to the ministry of power,...
Syful Islam | 2016-11-12 00:00:00
Government high-ups have given the all-clear for a deal with DP Rail of the UK for building rail link between Dhaka and Paira seaport under a multibillion-dollar project. Officials said the Ministry of Railways (MoR) got the green signal from...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-11-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh will set up jute viscose plant with financial and technical assistance from China considering the huge export potential of the item, officials here said. A high-powered Chinese delegation, led by Vice-Minister Wang Tiankai, will visit Bangladesh next week to...
Babul Barman | 2016-11-12 00:00:00
Stocks finished slightly higher last week, extending the gaining spell for the two consecutive weeks, as optimistic investors remained active on sector-specific stocks. Analysts said the market posted slight gain during the week that ended on Thursday as mixed sentiments...
Muhammad Quamrul Islam | 2016-11-12 00:00:00
The coming 17th November is the 40th anniversary of death of our respected leader of the oppressed, Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, laid to rest at Santosh in Tangail. We pay our glowing tributes to this great man admired nationally...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-11-12 00:00:00
Not many people live to see their 80-year birthday. Even when some do, they become weak and infirm in most cases. But then there is a rare breed that does not only defy age but retains its vitality like youths....
Md Safat Islam | 2016-11-12 00:00:00
Information and communication technology (ICT) has become the heart of the banking sector in Bangladesh now-a-days. The banking industry is the heart of every robust economy. ICT is helping the banking sector improve its efficiency and effectiveness of services offered...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-11-12 00:00:00
The income-earning capacity of sample households obviously depends on a number of factors. For example, land is the most important asset which plays an important role in influencing household income. It may be owned land or rented-in land. Likewise, income...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-11-12 00:00:00
The prospect of global foreign direct investment (FDI) looks gloomy for the current calendar year. Two world bodies have already made it clear that 2016 will ultimately experience lower inflow of FDI across the world. The United Nations Conference on...
Munima Sultana | 2016-11-11 00:00:00
Work on the country's first bus-based rapid transit (BRT) corridor will begin soon. The authorities concerned awarded on Wednesday the first contract of the project to a Chinese company for introducing the BRT line from Gazipur to Uttara. Officials said...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2016-11-11 00:00:00
In recent years, child migration - both forced and voluntary - has become a global phenomenon. Around the world today, 50 million children have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced within their own countries. More than half - a...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-11-11 00:00:00
So, belying hope and expectation the United States of America has not got a woman president. The man who has against him allegations of treating women disdainfully clinched victory. One may ask if the most powerful nation on earth has...
Siddique Islam | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
The central bank of Bangladesh Wednesday sought from all scheduled banks the relevant information about the volume of Indian rupee notes of 500 and 1000 denominations held by them. The notes were demonetised Tuesday night. "We've already contacted different banks,...
Munima Sultana | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
A meeting of the panel of experts on Padma Bridge project will begin at the project site today (Thursday) to review the overall progress of work, officials said. The three-day meeting with the contractors and consultants is expected to discuss...
Ferdaus Ara Begum concluding a three-part article on start-up challenges | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
Vietnam is one of the countries which have performed well and extended policy support to the small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) for flourishing. According to a plan to support enterprises until 2020, signed by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc...
Rizwanul Islam | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
During the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the current millennium, development paradigm has undergone several shifts in focus. The journey started with the trickle down approach -- many economists taking the view that the...
Sayema Haque Bidisha and S M Abdullah | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
There is no denying the fact that the composition of population of any country plays a crucial role in its growth and development. In this context, due to its direct contribution to the labour market, the proportional size and the...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
Tax revenue becomes pretty potential when properly mobilised and against which service to the taxpayers is assured; revenue expenses are proper when appropriately spent. Both revenue income and expenditure should be dealt with transparency in realisation and ensure accountability while...
Jamaluddin Ahmed | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
It is a fact that no society throughout history has ever obtained a high level of economic affluence without a government. Where governments did not exist, anarchy reigned and little wealth was accumulated by productive economic activity. After governments took...
M. Serajul Islam | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
The Prime Minister made a statement last month that it is not good for journalism when owners of newspapers become editors of their publications while inaugurating the 31-storey Bangabandhu Media Complex at the National Press Club. In April this year,...
Salehuddin Ahmed | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
The countries in the Asia Pacific region which are marked as the countries in the South of the globe are striving to end poverty and hunger to achieve sustainable development and promote faster economic growth with equity. The UN adopted...
Mirza Azizul Islam | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
India is the closest neighbour of Bangladesh. It can, therefore, be logically expected that there would be close economic interactions between these two countries. There are multiple channels through which economic interactions between countries are mediated. Arguably the most important...
Syed Ashraf Ali | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
Foreign trade and foreign exchange play very important roles in the economy of a country. Bangladesh, with an open economy and small domestic resource base, depends largely on the external sector for her economic development. Due to domestic resource constraints...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
Various studies and researches have demonstrated that the policies, strategies and action-plans for curbing administrative corruption in the service-delivery sectors of Bangladesh should take into cognizance the divergences and differences in the perceptions, attitude and beliefs of service-recipients and service-providers...
Sharjil Haque | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
Bad loans. Weak balance sheets. Political interference. Inadequate risk-management practices. Lack of customised financial products. Yes, this is the interminable list of problems long plaguing the banking sector in Bangladesh. And in more recent times, that list has a new...
Zahid Hussain, focussing on this year's Nobel Prize in economics | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
If I had to sum up in two words what earned Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom the 2016 Nobel Prize in economics, the answer is "contract theory". Contracts are much more important in our day to day lives than we...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2016-11-10 00:00:00
The bad news in poverty continues to stalk every country at the turn of the new millennium; the question is one of degrees. The good news is, fight against it has been winning grounds in most of the countries if...
Syful Islam | 2016-11-09 00:00:00
None else than China is offering 'suitable' proposals for selling vessels to Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC), officials said, which implies a walkover. Presently, at least six project proposals--all from China--on procurement of vessels by the BSC are under negotiations, they...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-11-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh's ranking deteriorated in this year's Global Prosperity Index, prepared by the London-based Legatum Institute. In 2015, the country ranked 103rd among 142 countries. This year, the ranking is 114th among 149 nations. But a slip by 11 steps in...
Siddique Islam | 2016-11-09 00:00:00
Trade deficit more than doubled in the first quarter of the current fiscal mainly as the value of country's imports far outstripped its export earnings, officials said. The trade gap widened by nearly 111 per cent or US$1.24 billion to...
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