It has been a long tradition that pre-budget parleys are held between the government and the various trade bodies obviously with the purpose of imposition and rationalisation of taxes in the ensuring budget if needed. But the discussion seems to be a one-sided affair. Joseph Stiglitz, a celebrated

Walter Scheidel, the author of the famous book `The Great Leveler', had observed in his book. Ever since humans began to form, herd lives lock and pass on these assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilisation. Over thousands of years only violent events

The scribe had the opportunity of visiting the University of Law, Hyderabad, India. This university is widely known as NALSAR (National Academy for Legal Studies and Research). It is located at a place known as University City about 40 km away from the fast expanding and developing city Hyderabad,

Genocides were perpetrated, are being perpetrated and will be perpetrated as long as the mankind exists. Genocide is an international crime perpetrated with the intention to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic or religious group.  In the history of mankind there would not be dearth

BSR stands for business social responsibility. For last few decades, we have been acquainted with the term CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). It is more or less universally accepted that corporations cannot confine themselves for looking after the interest of the shareholders only. A corporatio

For the last three decades there have been frequent demands from the business community for reducing the rate of corporate tax, particularly from the protagonists of the capital market. Also there is the demand that the rate of corporate tax for listed companies should be less than that of unlisted

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist, a campaigner and an expert on both tax havens and financial centres. Some of his other books include, Treasure Island: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens, Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil, and Nigeria's Implementation of the E

Everywhere around the globe the government forms a commission with a view to either cooling down any agitation or concealing the authority's non-action psyche or hoodwinking the people. In Bangladesh complete chaos has been prevailing in the road transport sector. Every day there have been at least