It seems Bangladesh is doing quite good in economic development, but statistics also inducate it is doing enough. With a growth rate of slightly at higher than 7.0 per cent per annum, this economy is doing better than many, but there are economies which are growing at rate higher than this. Econom

Vigilance is the price of liberty, as the saying goes. It is about individual liberty which, unless guarded jealously, will be encroached upon by others. Here others are competitors or even the state itself. Liberty is to be preserved, otherwise it will be taken by others. In a market economy, so m

Every year we expect Bangladesh to do better in doing business index, though unfortunately we get routinely frustrated seeing the country's pitiable performance. In the World Bank's "Doing Business Report 2019" Bangladesh ranked 176th among 190 countries. Even war ravaged Afghanistan improved its p

The month of October is the  usual time for declaration of dividends by  companies listed on the bourses in Bangladesh whose accounting year ended in June. These companies could have declared dividends for the stock investors even before i.e., in the period between July to September, but

Bangladesh Bank has finally permitted the commercial banks to open foreign currency clearance accounts in Yuan, the Chinese currency. The permission was long overdue. Yuan won a slot in the Special Drawing Rights or SDRs, the basket of reserve currencies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), tw

Economists and members of civil society have voiced concern with regard to the concentration of wealth in a few hands, who, in most cases, are cronies of the government. The concentration of income in the hands of top 5.0 per cent of society seems to be unstoppable. The political leadership, which

The cabinet has finally approved the Gold Policy-2018 as was placed by the Ministry of Commerce. For long, analysts have been advocating for an open and transparent gold policy so that the investors at home can do gold business in a competitive environment and the market can be freed from the smugg

Bangladesh and India have agreed to sign a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement or CEPA. India has already entered into such agreements with a few other countries such as South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia but has not yet signed one with a least developed or low-end emerging economy