Courts and the banks

The inability of the commercial banks to force borrowers to repay loans is the central problem of the Bangladesh financial system. This is nothing new. It goes back to the beginning of Bangladesh. The banking system in 1990 was dominated by the government-owned banks. Neither the government-owned banks nor the...

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Policy analysis and policy making

Policy making cannot and should not take place without sound policy analysis. This, in turn, requires up-to-date policy research. In most cases policies are made on existing problems or as a continuity of on-going policies. Both require recent information and data to ensure that the policy made is not only...

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The women at large

Coincidences are just that. When three women Nobel laureates descend on the Rohingya camps it warms the heart and brings with it questions. And when in the social media some women are decrying the fact that it is women rather than men that pile up hurdles in their way to...

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