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Credit for small and marginal farmers  

The Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) has a plan for disbursing loans among small and marginal farmers including small rural entrepreneurs under a Tk 100 billion credit programme. If things go according to the plan, the long-term credit scheme will take off on March 17 next year. The professed objective sounds...

Getting numbers right in company financials

Numbers in the financials of companies, listed or otherwise, are...

Welcome boost to SMEs  

The launching of the first ever Small and Medium Enterprise...

Impediment to NBR revenue collection  

Tax collection fell short of the target by Tk 93.18...

Expansion of BSTI operation

The proposed expansion of operation by the Bangladesh Standard and...

Advancing agricultural mechanisation  

Boosting trade with Indonesia  

Towards a tolerant society  

Improving country's ability to compete  

A novel laudable effort  

Disciplining expansion of RMG industry

GDP growth and poverty

In a poverty assessment report released by the World Bank on Monday, some unpalatable truths about income disparities have emerged. At a time when the country's economic growth is increasing at about an enviable rate, poverty reduction has not only slowed but also the rate of reduction has declined. This points to the fact that the dividends of economic growth have not been shared rationally by the country's population. Ideally, the lower segments of society should have enjoyed the greater...

Call for making Bangladesh a hub

The Prime Minister's call last...

Declining home-ownership

A decline in home-ownership from...

City crowding: A way out  

The demolition campaign now being...

Raising the rate of value addition in RMG export  

Figures can be deceiving. Those...

Task force for business and investment  

The proposal from a meeting...

Water-logging woes unabated  

Water-logging has been a seasonally...

Beef import needs careful review

LNG from Brunei  

Record yield and policy imperative  

Double benefit from recycling waste

Disciplining the highways  

The cleanup drive  

Disciplining the highways  

Amid the wholesale chaos in road traffic management...

The cleanup drive  

The Financial Express headlined on the front-page last...

House and living standard

Messages from the UN Summit  

Tea workers deserve better  

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