Since its first publication by the World Bank in 2003, the Ease of Doing Business Report has become a global template for improving the regulatory structure to facilitate a better business environment. Almost all of the listed 190 countries have been trying to improve their regulatory structures to

The recent comment by the Chinese Ambassador Li Jiming that relations between Bangladesh and China would be 'substantially damaged' if Bangladesh joins the QUAD has stirred up a spate of reactions in Bangladesh and outside. His comment on the QUAD has been termed as a 'surprise,' 'bewilderment,' 'u

Traditionally, the State of the Union address is a domestic affair of the United States. It can however transcend the domestic boundary when the United States considers itself under severe pressure from outside on certain issues or when it feels that its interests have been challenged by certain ac