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
Fixing minimum wage for workers is a tricky issue regardless of the sector of the economy they are employed in. Going by experience, the work of settling minimum wage, even for those in the industries including garment workers, who constitute organised section of the workforce, has proved to be ver
It was no coincidence that the simmering discontent of garment workers burst into full blown labour unrest to synchronise with the July-August mass uprising. Workers who could not press home their demands earlier under a repressive regime known for patronising crony capitalism considered it was the
It is good news that earnings from the export of agro-products -- primary and processed --increased to $595.51 million in the first half of FY2025 from $544.77 million in the corresponding period of FY2024. If the current momentum is sustained in the second half of FY2025, export receipt from this
In the absence of mandatory health screening of returnee migrant workers at the airports, the country remains exposed to quick transmission of fatal diseases such as HIV-AIDS. For lack of on-arrival health tests, returnees carrying the virus are freely roaming about in society and infecting others
Modern-day diplomacy is all about enhancing collaboration between countries through promotion of trade and investment. Even the big power politics is centred around competition between big economies to get the better of the other in the field of trade and investment. Especially, for countries not p
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has embarked on an important task of getting a true picture of the financial health of some domestic banks. It has started the audit of six troubled Islamic banks in the private sector employing a reputed global audit firm, Ernst and Young (EY). To make the audit work trans
It is common knowledge that loans from the Bretton Woods Institutions come with strings attached. At a time of financial crisis which was its own making, the deposed government of Sheikh Hasina had to accept International Monetary Fund (IMF)-dictated recipe along with its loan amounting to $4.7 bil
With the establishment of the country’s first mobile financial service styled bkash in the 2010s, the startup revolution actually began in Bangladesh. Gradually more startups emerged with their various services in the sectors including fintech, retail, logistics, software, edtech, traveltech,
The 2024 statistics of accidents on roads, railways and waterways, as presented by the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh (PWAB), makes it clear that the safety of commuting or travelling irrespective of the modes of transportation is getting increasingly compromised. So far as road accide
