Mohammad Mufazzal | 2016-04-07 00:00:00
Investors' prudent investment decision guided by reasonable expectations is seen as an important factor in stabilising the stock market. Capital market experts and portfolio managers laid emphasis on the level of financial literacy on the part of general investors. They...
Syful Islam | 2016-04-07 00:00:00
Reviewing the draft strategy paper on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) usage, the government has disapproved of a proposal for giving subsidy to consumers when piped gas supply will stop, officials said. If the government position stands, households will have to...
Siddique Islam | 2016-04-07 00:00:00
The reconstituted central bank board discussed in detail Wednesday how the cyber heist in its overseas reserves occurred and how such fraud could be prevented. Officials said the recast Bangladesh Bank board in its maiden meeting asked top management to...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-04-07 00:00:00
Mushrooming of the country's private hospitals has helped the people to get health services at their door steps. The services in the private hospitals are expensive, no doubt. Yet those have helped many patients from skipping even far more expensive...
Munima Sultana | 2016-04-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh with one of the highest population density and meagre resources faces a lot of challenges in ensuring a minimum of healthcare facilities. Since its birth, it has been struggling hard to overcome many challenges in its task of improving...
Ismail Hossain | 2016-04-07 00:00:00
Sanjiv Lamba, visiting member of the executive board of Linde AG, said Bangladesh needs uninterrupted power supply, a pro-active investment authority and proper enforcement of policy to attract foreign direct investment. "Despite some constraints, I would still suggest investors to...
iqbal1527@hotmail.com | 2016-04-07 00:00:00
SYLHET, Apr 6: As an Indefinite strike has been started since this morning vehicles of all types remained off the Sylhet-Salutikor-Companiganj-Bholaganj road and on the Sylhet-Gowainghat road to press for immediate repair of the important roads. The transport workers and...
Mehrab Jamal | 2016-04-07 00:00:00
A rudimentary notion in marketing as a field of study is that one must cater to human emotions and interests in order to successfully sell a product. This is an intuition in business that is very obvious, yet significantly difficult...
Mohammad Shahidur Rahman Khan and K. M. Kutub Uddin Romel | 2016-04-07 00:00:00
The failure of a bank or the case of a bank experiencing a crisis usually has negative impacts on other banks in the economy through informational conflagration or an increased cost of borrowings. The impacts are likely to be higher...
Nironjan Roy concluding his two-part article | 2016-04-07 00:00:00
The US Patriot Act 2001 and the US Criminal Money Laundering & Civil Forfeiture Act 1986 are the two most powerful legal weapons for fighting money laundering activities and financial crimes in America. In the Bangladesh Bank's reserve hacking incident,...
Harold James in Princeton | 2016-04-07 00:00:00
Throughout the industrialized world, governments are rushing to hand out money to the elderly. Germany's government has not only reversed an increase in the retirement age intended to make pensions more affordable; it has recently announced a 5.0per cent increase...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2016-04-06 00:00:00
Experts and stakeholders emphasised the listing of companies having strong fundamentals, visible regulatory actions, reliable financial statements and risk-management capacity of institutional investors for lifting the capital market out of the ongoing moribund state. A top official of AB Bank,...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-04-06 00:00:00
The decision made by the cabinet last Monday to remove 'unapproved' commercial establishments from the designated residential areas of Dhaka, the most densely populated city in the world, is bound to raise both confusions and serious doubts in public mind....
Munima Sultana | 2016-04-06 00:00:00
The Padma Multipurpose Bridge authorities may not be able to spend even the cut-down revised allocation for the current fiscal year for slow-paced work. Sources said the project office has yet to start in full swing construction of the main...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-04-06 00:00:00
Government's revenue authority has planned to establish interlink between the electronic cash register (ECR) of shops and the VAT online system to crosscheck transaction data for preventing tax evasion. There will be a chip in the ECR machine to help...
Bjorn Lomborg | 2016-04-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh has made spectacular progress over the recent years. The country has halved poverty and the economy has grown by about 6.0 per cent a year. But many challenges continue to frustrate its development efforts. According to the World Bank,...
Thivanka Rangala | 2016-04-06 00:00:00
Across the globe, telecommunications are recognised as a necessity to improve the quality of life. Increasingly, mobile telephony and data have been central in making access to information and services available regardless of locale. However, maintaining seamless connectivity is a...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2016-04-06 00:00:00
Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter and de facto leader of the OPEC oil cartel, was determined so far to protect its global oil market share by continuing the on going level of production. And that has contributed to...
Peter D. Sutherland in London | 2016-04-06 00:00:00
This year is likely to be the most momentous for refugee protection and migration since the signing of the Geneva Convention in 1951. Depending on the choices we make, we will either help create more open societies, based on greater...
Nironjan Roy in the first instalment of a two-part article | 2016-04-06 00:00:00
In the early 90s, when this writer was working in a private commercial bank, his core job responsibility was to look after export-oriented garments. One of our valued clients had a back- to-back import LC against corresponding export LC for...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2016-04-05 00:00:00
Gearing up investment activities of institutional investors on a higher scale can help revive the country's moribund capital market. This will create a momentum in stock trade necessary for restoring shaken confidence of the investors in the market. Experts and...
Siddique Islam | 2016-04-05 00:00:00
A high-profile SWIFT team is now checking the follow-up actions recommended by its experts for repairing Bangladesh Bank's international transaction system wrecked by hackers. Meanwhile, as the Philippine government authorities carried on the hunt for the siphoned BB reserves, casino...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-04-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh Tariff commission (BTC) has alerted the government to take necessary steps for checking any possible price hike in sugar during the forthcoming Ramadan The price of the essential commodity has increased on the international market, officials said. It also...
Jamaluddin Ahmed in the last of his five-part write-up on Political Economy of Uniform Value Added Tax and Tariff System | 2016-04-05 00:00:00
In theory, the distributional burden of the VAT depends crucially on how household resources are measured. Typical distributional analyses are made with respect to current income. The VAT is regressive if households are classified by, and the tax burden is...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2016-04-05 00:00:00
The defining characteristic of global economic growth of the past six decades has been the closer integration of markets across regions. This is observed most distinctly in the growth of world trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and migration. World trade...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-04-05 00:00:00
There is considerable interest as well as difference of opinion about the effects of strikes on economic activities. The popular view is that hartals and blockades have a significant effect on the economy - the loss amounting about 3-4 per...
Siddique Islam | 2016-04-04 00:00:00
Government authorities in a meeting of regulators ordered Sunday imposing bar on the cooperative societies using the tag 'Bank' in their operations, as there have been stunning instances of deception. Two financial regulators were assigned to the task of executing...
Munima Sultana | 2016-04-04 00:00:00
A move is underway to formulate a policy and plan for constructing two subways in the city by using metro rail corridors aiming to ease traffic congestion. As per the directives from the Prime Minister, the Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA)...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-04-04 00:00:00
A Singapore-based firm has shown interest in investing a substantial amount of money to build a world-class tourism zone at Sabrang under public-private partnership (PPP) paradigm. Sabrang is located near Teknaf. The company named Inter-Asia Group PTE Ltd recently submitted...
Ismail Hossain | 2016-04-04 00:00:00
Loan disbursement by the state-run mortgage lender has fallen sharply in the last four years due to fund shortage. The housing finance corporation's loan disbursement dropped from Tk 4.37 billion in the fiscal year 2012-13 to Tk3.88 billion in 2013-14...
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