Service sector will in future be the prime mover of the world economy, with industry and agriculture sectors losing market share significantly. Keeping with the global trend, the service sector of Bangladesh has been expanding fast and maintaining an upward trend over the years. This is no longer

The recent 48-hour strike, enforced countrywide by road transport workers, has caused an outcry among many-with rights activists putting the blame partly on the state because of its inaction to ensure citizens' safety. The eventful protests by strikers had various aspects to look into, including th

Human security, peace and development are the three paradigms, which have been the agenda of state reforms with focus on two key areas - the creation of more effective and legitimate legal, administrative, financial and policymaking institutions; and the promotion of social justice and empowerment

Overall foreign investment in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) is equivalent to about 4.0 per cent of the total market capitalisation of about $46 billion whereas the same in case of stocks in India is over 20 per cent. The size of foreign portfolio investment does have a big psychological impact in

Bond market in Bangladesh remains largely underdeveloped.  Dominated by the government debt securities in the primary market, the secondary market is largely absent. The lack of an active bond market is badly affecting the country's financial sector as the businesses largely depend on banks to

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) and the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) have taken a number of initiatives of late to arrest alleged irregularities and protect the interests of the general investors. Although deemed by many a sort of late realisation on part of the stock market regu

The introduction of uniform voice call rate for the mobile phone subscribers did not bode well for majority of the users. Voice calls have become pricier with the uniform floor rate at Tk 0.45 per minute and the upper limit at Tk 2.0 per minute that has come into effect from 12:01am on August 14. T

A suggestion recently put forth by chamber leaders and top bankers for wider use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for managing ever-increasing non-performing loans (NPLs) is a timely and realistic one. They came up with the proposition at a recent roundtable session in Dhaka on ADR in managi