Managing the global factor better

Imagine a world in which the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were more client-driven. Ahead of the gathering - this year's will take place in Indonesia in October - the IMF would solicit from its 189 member countries three key policy issues on which to focus, not...

An insider view of how the tax administration operates

Autobiography of a Taxmanby Mohammad Delwar Husain Jagriti Publications. 510 p. ISBN978-984-8036-06-8, Tk900/$35 One of the long-standing problems of economic management of Bangladesh has been related to its taxation regime, and income taxation in particular. Government tax revenue equals about 11 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), one of...