Informal rural finance in Bangladesh
Dr. Matiur Rahman :Informal rural finance plays an important role in the transaction of money among friends, relatives, landlords, neighbors, shopkeepers, farmers, artisans, peddlers, marketing...
Editorial
Exam Load: Curriculum needs to reform
Prof. Dr. Md. Mahmudul Hassan :In 1789, the English poet William Blake wrote a poem called ‘The School Boy’. The boy was choked in the...
Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust assets to be sold out for corruption
Bangladesh Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust is now set to sell all its industrial and commercial establishments, including real estates, incurring continuous loss and eventually facing closure...
Can the losing Shyampur Sugar Mills turn profitable
The state-owned Shyampur Sugar Mills in Rangpur, which has been out of production for more than 10 months, is increasing the burden of loss with...
Digital societies in post-pandemic era
Sara Al-Mulla :Digital innovations and technologies are sweeping the world, transforming today’s societies in novel ways and offering opportunities to upgrade public services, enterprises and...
Plunder of public purse in absence of good governance
Dr. Dhiman Chowdhury :Available studies document higher government salaries and benefits in the developing countries than in the developed countries. In Sri Lanka, during 2017,...
Readers’ Forum
UN Rights Bodies Take Strong Stance on Climate Crisis Less than three weeks ahead of the global COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow, two key...
Lack of quality labs barrier to export of food products
Processed food products of Bangladesh are still unable to enter the world market in the absence of certification by an internationally accepted standard laboratory which...
Consumers In Confidence Crisis Over E-commerce
Majhar Mannan :At a time when e-commerce business is undergoing a ground breaking change in the corona situation around the world, there are many complications...
Proper Growth And Development Of The SME Sector
Mozidur Rahman Biswas :With the establishment of the SME Foundation in 2007, the overall support structure for SME development in Bangladesh became a multi-institution approach....
Tanneries now polluting the Dhaleshwari after the Buriganga
Untreated industrial waste keeps polluting River Dhaleshwari as the Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) at the country’s lone tannery estate in Savar does not function...
Rich people are exploiting state owned banks
State owned banks in Bangladesh are maintaining an elevated level of loan concentration among a handful of clients, putting their own financial health as well...