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The Financial Express

Saving Bangla with a uniform shape

The 1952 Language Movement Day arrives every year. The day...

Monetary Policy: Flirting with inflation

Monetary Policy has the unenviable and often daunting task of...

Making VAT system robust: Introducing multiple rates

The idea of Value Added Tax (VAT) was conceptualised by...

AI for better management of banking operations

The other day, this writer was talking with a banker...

The case for increasing non-tax revenue

What is non-tax revenue? Non-tax revenue (NTR) includes sale of...

A second chance to fix finance

In December 2018, US stocks recorded their biggest monthly decline...

SDGs in Bangladesh: Role of private sector

Leaders from 193 countries around the world met in September...

Cashless society — a dream or a reality?

People around the world want to drum cash with mobile...

American firsts & un-American bursts  

Donald J. Trump seems set to reconfigure the United States....

China, India and Japan—an emerging trilateral equation

The growth in cordiality in India's relations with Japan was...

Meeting challenges of technology-driven financial products

Technology-driven payment services have brought notable benefits in the form...

World Economic Forum, 2019: Overshadowed by crisis

The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Annual Meeting 2019 took place...

E-waste management in the age of robotics

Massive job loss, human-free production, and human-machine rivalry are dominating...

Bangladesh embarks on climate public finance tracking

Bangladesh, home to a 160 million people, lies in Asia's...

Social health approach against drug abuse

Initiatives are on to revamp the way the scourge of...

Reimagining Davos

I do not attend the annual meeting of the World...

The imperative of annual economic scorecard

During childhood, school-going kids usually dread the day their parents...

Menu for 2019: From venture capital to adventure (& back)

As one of the leading countries (nay, laboratories) of non-governmental...

Love and respect for the elderly

Elderly people ranging from 60-year to 80-year-olds toiling away to...

GDP growth: Role of human capital-augmented labour and agri productivity

Bangladesh is a large deltaic country where agriculture remains a...

Making the labour policy effective

Recent labour unrest in the country's readymade garment (RMG) factories...

Industrial revolutions & social reforms

"Arbitrage drives globalisation," Richard Baldwin asserts. The Professor of Political...

SMART customs control can raise trade and economic competitiveness

International trade is a key driver for economic growth and...