Sustainable development: Africa's must-do decade

Since 2000, Africa has recorded impressive rates of economic growth, owing largely to development assistance and a prolonged commodity boom. While the continent shows great diversity in the socio-economic trajectories, growth rates have generally masked an underlying lack of structural transformation.Many African countries have yet to undergo the kind of...

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Indian experience with NPLs: Lessons for Bangladesh

The experience of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in effectively dealing with non-performing loans (NPLs) in recent years can be very pertinent for Bangladesh.India's central bank in 2016 decided to clean up the balance sheets of different banks. These banks were collectively saddled with Rs 6,000 billion of bad...

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Hazardous chemicals polluting Dhaleswari river

The tannery industry is now polluting the Dhaleswari river after the Buriganga as the central effluent treatment plant (CETP) for treating liquid waste and hazardous chemicals is yet to be fully operational. For the last nine months, the Chinese company, which built the CETP, is running the plant on a...

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