Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2016-09-29 00:00:00
Participatory governance or citizen participation in public administration is a concept widely practised by many western developed countries. But developing countries like Bangladesh still lag far behind in this area. Participatory governance may be defined as a process in which...
A. F. M.Mainul Ahsan | 2016-09-29 00:00:00
Even public offices today all over the world are getting creative to increase their revenue. Apparently this practice is now being adopted by Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). As the part of continual development process, DSE has launched its upgraded version...
M. Serajul Islam | 2016-09-29 00:00:00
A record 84 million people watched the debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, held last Monday evening. Interest in the debate was enhanced because the polls had shown leading to the debate that Hillary Clinton's unassailable lead of a...
Mohamed A. El-Erian in Laguna Beach | 2016-09-29 00:00:00
The aftermath of the United Kingdom's unexpected vote in June to leave the European Union (EU) is being monitored closely. People all over the world - and particularly in Europe - want to know how Brexit will unfold, not just...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
Country's apex chamber body has urged the government to amend some of the key fiscal measurers for the fiscal year 2016-17 as it found small and medium-scale businesses facing difficulty in running their operations. Officials said the Federation of Bangladesh...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
The issue of urban poverty that hitherto escaped attention of the policymakers deserves a close scrutiny. With the process of urbanisation gathering speed, the problem of urban poverty has grown bigger. In Dhaka city that is marked by tall buildings,...
Siddique Islam | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
Classified loans belonging to the industries increased by more than 32 per cent to Tk 250.68 billion in the fiscal year (FY) 2015-16 for lax repayment by the debtors. Official sources also pointed out slower recovery drives by banks and...
Mohammad Wazed Ali | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
The Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) and Information Technology (IT) graduates now occupy major chunk of the country's job market thanks to fast expansion of digitization and ICT activities both at public and private levels, market insiders said. Besides these...
Saeba Ruslana Abedin | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
Developments in the global economy raise three basic questions about government: what its role should be, what it can and cannot do, and how best to do it. According to World Bank's World Development Report: The State in a Changing...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) are rising across the world. It is like moving towards the opposite direction of tariff liberalisation and tariff elimination. Though all NTMs are not trade restrictive or curb the effort of trade liberalisation, there are a number...
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
International trade, which is completely different from the domestic one, refers to movement of goods, services and capital across the borders of different countries. A port is the gateway for international trade which has another name cross-border trade. As Wikipedia...
Shamsul Alam | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
Bangladesh, a low-income country (LIC) since independence, was upgraded, in accordance with World Bank definition, to the status of a low middle-income country (LMIC) in July 2015. This higher status was achieved six years earlier than which was envisaged to...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-09-27 00:00:00
The government is set to overhaul the Siddhirganj Power Plant (SPP) for smooth power generation and transmission following recent breakdown of some mechanical equipment of the plant, officials said. The move comes due to recurring breakdown of the plant that...
Md. Ziaul Haque Howlader | 2016-09-27 00:00:00
All the member-countries of the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) have been celebrating, since 1980, the World Tourism Day on September 27 with a specific theme. This year the theme is 'Tourism for All: Promoting Universal Accessibility'. The approach of the...
Saleh Akram | 2016-09-27 00:00:00
The migrant issue that raised a furor across the world a couple of months ago is neither a forgotten nor a foregone one. Although the dust has apparently settled down, the issue is very much alive particularly in countries braving...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-09-27 00:00:00
Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), a research institution, has long been playing an important role in the field of nutritional research in South Asia. LANSA has been campaigning for research to find out how agriculture and agri...
Munima Sultana | 2016-09-26 00:00:00
The government has taken a move to complete feasibility studies and detailed designs of the existing national highways for further development and making suitable for serving as regional corridor. Of the total 2,352-kilometre (km) national and regional roads of the...
Siddique Islam | 2016-09-26 00:00:00
Non-performing loans (NPLs) net of provisions to capital in Bangladesh's banking sector is higher than in India and Sri Lanka, which is also responsible for higher interest rate spread, experts and academics said. Among the three countries, the banking sector...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2016-09-26 00:00:00
The conclusions reached as per a new analysis from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are that, the governments around the world have to focus on investing in education and health to help break out of the low-growth...
Xavier Vives in Bercelona | 2016-09-26 00:00:00
The banking business has fallen on hard times. The combination of persistent low interest rates, increasing regulatory compliance costs, and the rise of new competitors taking advantage of financial technologies (fintech for short) has produced, in Europe in particular, excess...
Neil Ray | 2016-09-26 00:00:00
The Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) never ceases to make news -albeit mostly for wrong reasons. The latest one concerns treatment of a patient by someone who has no business doing so. The result is that the patient died...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-09-26 00:00:00
Can infusion of substantial volume of liquidity alone buoy up the stock market that is now caught in a dull and drab environment? Looking at the list of proposals handed over to Finance Minister AMA Muhith recently by the Bangladesh...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-09-25 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Competition Commission (BCC) is expected finalise its organogram and necessary rules shortly following directives by the government, officials said. The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) at a recent meeting took some decisions for gearing up the commission's activities. "We...
Syful Islam and Rezaul Karim | 2016-09-25 00:00:00
China has proposed a joint feasibility study on a bilateral free-trade agreement (FTA) to be signed with Bangladesh. Trade officials in Dhaka, however, find such pact not so beneficial to the country, officials said. In a recent letter to the...
Alexander Uvarov | 2016-09-25 00:00:00
An article titled "Option for safe power plants" by Engr. S.A. Mansoor was posted in the August 26, 2016 online edition of the Financial Express. [The article appears on Page-5 in the August 27 print edition of the paper.] The...
Abu Afsarul Haider | 2016-09-25 00:00:00
Bangladesh, a nation of 160 million people with an area of 56,977 square miles, has too many types of education systems and structures. At present, there are three main education systems: General Education, Madrasah Education, and Technical-Vocational Education System. Then...
Syful Islam | 2016-09-24 00:00:00
The state-owned Basic Bank has requested the government's finance authority to expedite bond issuance to help it out through replenishing its capital shortfall of Tk 26 billion as per requirement of the Basel-III provision. In a letter to the ministry...
Babul Barman | 2016-09-24 00:00:00
Stocks finished higher last week that ended Thursday, the first week after prolonged nine-day Eid vacation, as optimistic investors took position on some large-cap stocks. Analysts said the market maintained the upward trend for two consecutive weeks as enthusiastic investors...
Syeda Husne Ara Shelley (Husna Shelley) | 2016-09-24 00:00:00
To help Bangladesh fight the curse of illiteracy the Shwapna Foundation took a very important initiative to educate street children both in rural and urban areas. Already the foundation established 2,000 street schools all the country. Already 50,000 students are...
Masum Billah | 2016-09-24 00:00:00
Prepositions are relationship words. A preposition is a word that explains the time, space or logical relationship between the other parts of a sentence. In other words, it links all the other words together, so that the readers can understand...
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