Sustainable banking in the 'new normal'

Sustainable banking go beyond profitability. 'Sustainable Banking' is an integral component of 'Sustainable development', which is about banking for profitability, and also its quality aspects in economic, social and environmental fronts. Historically, it has not been easy to incentivise commercial banks to go beyond profitability, thus, policy makers of developed...

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The leader the WTO needs

With the global trading system under severe pressure, international cooperation to strengthen a rules-based order is vital. Now, perhaps more than ever, we need a World Trade Organization (WTO) that supports economic recovery, defends multilateralism, rebuilds trust, and rises to the twenty-first-century challenges posed by poverty, inequality, climate change, and...

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BD pharmaceutical exports -- modest start for a long journey

Bangladesh aspires to become a global player in pharmaceutical business; it has started exploring the overseas medicine markets and quite a few local manufacturers have already penetrated several of these markets. The local pharma executives have claimed to export medicines to more than one hundred countries. While Bangladesh made medicines...

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