Developing own policy for curbing NPLs

The regional seminar the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) organised recently in Dhaka on contemporary banking practice in the neighbouring countries is a significant development. Bankers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal participated in the March 04-05 seminar. Every bank has its own training academy and Bangladesh Bank (BB)...

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Italian election strengthens anti-immigration, anti-establishment forces

As expected, the latest Italian general election held on March 04 has reflected the populist surge that has been sweeping across Europe - in Netherlands, Austria, France and Germany. Italian voters, to no one's surprise, backed anti-immigrant, anti-establishment parties and have now created a complex scenario in that country. They...

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Fighting corporate tax avoidance - the dark underbelly of globalisation

Over the past few years, leaks of documents such as the "Panama Papers" and the "Paradise Papers" have exposed the dark underbelly of globalisation, and provoked indignant denunciations of tax avoidance from people around the world. Ordinary workers have no choice but to pay their taxes. But, apparently, multinational corporations...

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