Protecting the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) is critical for international trade and foreign investment. Bangladesh is struggling to improve the country's IPR regime for long despite being part of a number of major international bodies and agreements for the protection of intellectual property

The winning of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States of America on Wednesday appears to be a big blow to the world economy and trade. The Republican Party leader has yet to be formally declared as the country's president, although the primary results of the Electoral College votes

Today, the citizens of the United States (US) are going to elect the next president of the world's most powerful country and the event is quite significant for the rest of the world. Many analysts have already outlined what a victory of Donald Trump could mean for the global economy. Again, many ha

Urgent action is needed to rationalise Bangladesh's tax and tariff regimes. This is crucial to efficiently integrate the country's business and production chain with the global value chain. By expediting a rational, transparent, and efficient tax, tariff, and trade facilitation regime, we can meet

After five weeks of bloodshed, pain, fear and heartache, the mass uprising led by the students finally forced the autocratic government to step down as the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country to take shelter in India.  The brave and indomitable students, who, amidst 'egregious k

Almost two months after the end of the 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), there is still not adequate efforts in the country, as a graduating LDC, to move ahead and look beyond the MC13. Some critical areas need to be pushed up, however. It is to be noted tha

Investment promotion is effective only in a congenial investment environment. Without an appropriate business climate for investment, promotional efforts might make foreign investment less likely and can even be counterproductive. It is extremely difficult to convince an investor to return if he wa

Taking into account the trends and practices of our competing exporting countries like India, Pakistan, Sri-Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and others Bangladesh should launch a vigorous drive to ensure sustainable destinations of its export goods and se