Bazlul H Khondker and Abu Eusuf | 2015-11-15 00:00:00
A popular, emerging and yet expensive energy source is renewable energy (RE). Despite its higher social value compared to the traditional fossil-fuel-based energy, the widespread use of RE has been limited due to the higher cost of generating it. Feed-in-Tariff...
M. Serajul Islam | 2015-11-15 00:00:00
The events that have unfolded in India over the last few months are in sharp contrast to the image that the country and its founding fathers had established; that India would be the role model for the developing countries seeking...
Md. Rabiul Islam Rabi, S M Salim Reza and S M Sazid Raihan | 2015-11-15 00:00:00
Human talent is often trapped by Bureaucratic restrictions. We must devise our policies to reap the benefit of human talent in more entrepreneurial ways. The paper aims to focus on the pressing challenges faced by the Small and Medium Enterprises...
Abdullah Al-Rezwan | 2015-11-15 00:00:00
In the aftermath of global financial crisis in 2007, the developed world had an endearing love affair with the emerging countries. The quantitative easing and strong commodity prices made the emerging countries look pretty hot at that time. But with...
Khan Muhammad Saqiful Alam | 2015-11-15 00:00:00
Most of us have heard of the story of an apple falling on Newton's head leading to the discovery of the concept of Gravity. Another popular scientific story was that of Archimedes who dropped to the bathtub, where he figured...
Salim Shadman Pathan | 2015-11-15 00:00:00
In 2010 when my then-superviser told me about a new media that was going to rock our marketing worlds this scribe was not quite able to fathom it. Back then digital marketing was limited to having a Facebook Page and...
Sharjil Haque | 2015-11-15 00:00:00
Persistent excess liquidity in the banking sector has become an urgent concern for Bangladesh as it represents lower lending for growth-enhancing investments. Despite an improved political environment, credit growth remains subdued at around 12-13 per cent compared to healthier growth...
Nicholas Stern | 2015-11-15 00:00:00
In 2009, the world's rich countries pledged to mobilize $100 billion a year by 2020 to help poor countries tackle climate change. Since then, that promise has come to be regarded as a key test of the developed world's resolve...
Jamaluddin Ahmed concluding his four-part article titled \'Central banks as the agents of economic development: The distributive, political and allocative roles\' | 2015-11-15 00:00:00
After the Second World War, there was a major transformation of central banking in the developing world. In many respects, these changes paralleled those in the developed world. But in developing countries, central banks were much more emphatically agents of...
M. Serajul Islam | 2015-11-15 00:00:00
Many non-Americans find the Republican presidential debates difficult to follow. This would be truer for people from the developing nations; in particular, in the way the candidates have debated on socialism, a concept that is assuming great significance in the...
Jamaluddin Ahmed | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
After the Second World War, there was a major transformation of central banking in the developing world. In many respects, these changes paralleled those in the developed world. But in developing countries, central banks were much more emphatically agents of...
M. Serajul Islam | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
Many non-Americans find the Republican presidential debates difficult to follow. This would be truer for people from the developing nations; in particular, in the way the candidates have debated on socialism, a concept that is assuming great significance in the...
FE Online Report | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) is working with the government to put in place pension savings schemes for general public including the Non-Resident Bangladeshis (NRBs), besides the existing pension and provident fund schemes for formal sector employees. BB Governor Dr Atiur Rahman...
Munima Sultana | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
The motor rally, under the Bangladesh Bhutan India and Nepal (BBIN) motor vehicle agreement (MVA), flags off today (Saturday) from Bhubaneswar in Orissa of India aiming at making a 4,500-kilometre journey in 18 days for opening a corridor for passenger...
Syful Islam | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh and India will sign tomorrow (Sunday) a standard operating procedure (SOP) accord on coastal shipping service aimed at slashing the carrying cost of goods between the two trading partners, officials said. "No barrier to launch of the shipping service...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
The government has turned down a plea of the ministry of textiles and jute (MoTJ) seeking Tk 3.0 billion (300 crore) for Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) for buying raw jute and providing gratuity to its labourers, officials said. Finance...
Babul Barman | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
Stocks witnessed yet another bearish week that ended Thursday, extending the losing spell for the six weeks in a row. The week featured five trading sessions as usual and the frustrated investors were on selling frenzy in the first four...
Ismail Hossain | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
The microcredit regulator has put a ceiling on investment by micro finance institutions (MFIs) in fixed assets at 35 per cent of their cumulative earning surplus. The Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) in a circular recently imposed the restriction on fixed...
Jewel Kumar Roy | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
"Climate change is not just an environmental challenge. It is a fundamental threat to economic development," Dr. Jim Yong Kim, former World Bank President To protect the environment, it is time to work on an issue as green bond, which...
Jamaluddin Ahmed | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
It is well known that following the disasters of the Great Depression and the Second World War, governments in the UK, Europe, Japan and even the US asserted much greater control over central banks and the banking industries (Capie et...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
Each year World Diabetes Day (WDD) is centered on a theme related to diabetes. Topics covered in the past have included diabetes and human rights, diabetes and lifestyle, and the costs of diabetes. This year sees the third of a...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
The rural land market in developing countries is observed to be mainly fragmented, highly localised and thin. The poor seldom sell land unless they are driven by distress. As land is very scarce to rural people, its opportunity cost or...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
A walk by the river Buriganga or a train ride from Kamalapur in the capital city of Dhaka up to Tangail would just upset one's sense of smell. Stench oozing out of 'biologically dead' water-bodies fills the air all along....
Nilratan Halder | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
When supernumerary professor Abul Kalam Fazlul Huq, father of slain publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, makes it explicit that he felt not so much insecure at any other time except during the Liberation War, he perhaps gives vent to a feeling...
Ohidul Alam | 2015-11-14 00:00:00
Plastic bag or polythene (PB) is a type of container made of thin, flexible, plastic film, non-woven fabric, or plastic textile. It is used for containing and transporting goods; such as, foods, products, powders, ice, magazines, medicines, chemicals, and wastes...
Ohidul Alam | 2015-11-13 00:00:00
Plastic bag or polythene (PB) is a type of container made of thin, flexible, plastic film, non-woven fabric, or plastic textile. It is used for containing and transporting goods; such as, foods, products, powders, ice, magazines, medicines, chemicals, and wastes...
Masum Billah | 2015-11-13 00:00:00
Personality types of humans are commonly divided into two such as extrovert and introvert. A term first introduced by psychologist Carl Jung, extroversion is a personality trait where a person directs their energy outwards by seeking stimulus from either being...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-11-13 00:00:00
A walk by the river Buriganga or a train ride from Kamalapur in the capital city of Dhaka up to Tangail would just upset one's sense of smell. Stench oozing out of 'biologically dead' water-bodies fills the air all along....
Nilratan Halder | 2015-11-13 00:00:00
When supernumerary professor Abul Kalam Fazlul Huq, father of slain publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, makes it explicit that he felt not so much insecure at any other time except during the Liberation War, he perhaps gives vent to a feeling...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-11-13 00:00:00
The rural land market in developing countries is observed to be mainly fragmented, highly localised and thin. The poor seldom sell land unless they are driven by distress. As land is very scarce to rural people, its opportunity cost or...
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