Monetary Policy: Which way?

The monetary policy statement (MPS) of Bangladesh Bank (BB) for January-June 2018 was released late January. Although none of the monetary targets was changed significantly BB's policy was criticized for being overly cautious (or even contractionary). This was probably because the private sector credit growth was set at 16.8 per...

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Trump & trade-war: Shifting into the unknown

Trade has rarely involved fret-free relations between partners; and the more partners a country has, the higher the degree of bickering and skirmishes. Yet, when push approaches shove, disputing countries have generally held the fire. That, in a nutshell, has been the story of multilateral trade since the General Agreement...

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The US-North Korea proposed summit

The world media is at present agog with the news that the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the US President Donald Trump would meet by next May in a summit-level meeting with the venue still undecided. The news was broken to the media by the egotistic US leader like...

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