The recent decline in green and sustainable financing by banks and financial institutions (FIs) poses a significant challenge to achieving environmental sustainability. While a handful of private banks have managed to maintain or even exceed their targets in funding green projects, the broader tren
The latest development in the readymade garment (RMG) factories of the country, courtesy of limited automation, has sent mixed signal to all concerned. Particularly, the workers are alarmed, for it means loss of their livelihood. Already close to 31 per cent workers, mostly helpers, in the producti
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) makes news, more often than not, for all the wrong reasons. One such headline it has made on page 8 of the last Sunday's issue of the FE. The headline says it all but contention of the news explains why the BR suffers from its endemic malaise. Like most of the organisati
In a bid to make the public procurement process more competitive, transparent, and corruption-free, the government is reportedly planning to abolish the 10 per cent bidding cap. This cap, which disqualifies any bid that exceeds or falls below the quoted price by more than 10 per cent, was initially
That the per-acre Aman rice yield this season is notably higher than that of the last season, when the country reportedly had produced an all-time high of 16.7 million tonnes of Aman, is a piece of welcome news. Despite an increase in per-acre yield, it is hard to make assessment of the actual Aman
As in most other agrarian societies, in Bangladesh, decision-making has traditionally been the preserve of men both in the families and in society at large. Admittedly, society and culture, meanwhile, have undergone significant transformation through expansion of education, introduction of mo
The Bangladesh Bank is all set to make a change in its organogram with the creation, as reported in this newspaper on Tuesday last, of a compliance department. This newly created department will be assigned the special duty of overseeing operations of banks and other financial institutions and thei
Bangladesh's poultry market which supplies the cheaper variety of proteins like eggs and chickens to the general consumers often turns volatile. As usual, the blame for any sudden price hike of poultry products goes to the syndicates, meaning, the so-called nexus of the monopolies engaged in poultr
In today's fast-paced global economy, automation and innovation are two major forces driving transformative changes in international trade and commerce. Regrettably, Bangladesh's trade ecosystem remains hamstrung by a lack of automation and bureaucratic inefficiencies, as highlighted in a recent st
The ethos of the Bangalees was at its most effervescent on this day 53 years ago. This could not be otherwise because for the first time in modern history, the dream of a sovereign country the people of this land has long aspired for materialised on this day with their victory over the occupation f
