FY20 budget statement: Treatment of the financial sector

Financial sector of a country encompasses a wide variety of institutions. Those include banks, capital market, insurance companies, nonbank financial institutions etc. This article focuses on the treatment of banks in the budget statement of the Finance Minister presented to the Jatiya Sangsad on June 13, 2019. The subject is...

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Reversing 2019 gears: Indicators & interpreters

What is so promising about 2019 is that we are half way through without an economic collapse: time to start peeking at what 2020 might bring. Yet, what is so disconcerting is the continual absence of a silver economic bullet taking us right out of Great Recession (2008-11) pains and...

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