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Wealth inequality: Property tax can close the gap

Inequality in the current global economic system is inevitable. As in the advanced economies, wealth inequality in the developing world, too, remains a difficult policy issue. In Bangladesh, the share of total income of the poorest five per cent plummeted to 0.23 per cent in 2016 from 0.78 per cent...

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A man of dignity, dreamer of development

The independence of the Subcontinent from the British Raj, by partition, as India and Pakistan in 1947 brought about a radical change in the outlook of the people, as well as the topics for discussion in gatherings of friends and like-minded people. Talking politics become the usual fashion among the...

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