Liquidity crisis: How effective government, BB interventions?

The current liquidity crisis that has afflicted the economy has generated much debates and discussions. The government and the Bangladesh Bank (BB) were supposed to take necessary initiatives and they did take some policy measures. The measures are: (a) reverting to Advance-Deposit Ratio (ADR) of 85 per cent from 83.5...

Read more

Balancing priorities

There are those highly critical of Indian terms in Bangladesh utilising both a $500 million line of credit (LOC) for defence cooperation as well as the $2.0 billion infrastructure development. The criticism comes from the perspective of hands-tied choices of sourcing and apparently inventory requirements. In the infrastructure credit, projects...

Read more

Preventing buildup of unsustainable debt

Global growth is accelerating. But before we break out the champagne, we should acknowledge the long-term risks to sustained expansion posed by rising private and public debt.Market analysts view the uptick in private lending in most emerging and some developed economies as a sign of higher demand and a precursor...

Read more