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Economic governance in Bangladesh: Challenges to reform

Bangladesh's macroeconomic management has usually focused on the following goals which are quite similar to what was laid out in the Maastricht Criteria: (i) low and stable inflation (Bangladesh's monetary policy inflation target has been above global average but consistent with the country's economic parameters); (ii) low long-term interest rates...

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2019 will be the year of more state control

The world's two most populous states, China and India - together, around 37 per cent of the global population - have rolled out nationwide digital systems of monitoring and classification. These combine the collection of personal information needed for fuller citizenship with the capacity for fuller surveillance and intervention by...

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