Capital market struggling for vibrancy

The capital market of Bangladesh is small, weak and largely immature. Despite being a pillar of the overall financial market, it is continuously struggling to become an effective and vibrant market for financial intermediation. Money market, the other pillar of financial market is comparatively more active. Moreover, it is the...

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Trump's Syria withdrawal - right idea, wrong time

President Donald Trump's planned withdrawal of American troops from Syria, a move that prompted the resignation of Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, was the right decision in the wrong way and at the wrong time. Unless modified it could have disastrous consequences. The American military has been overextended in the Middle...

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