SPEAKING at the recent annual conference of the Bangladesh Administrative Service Association, Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus has emphasised the need to create opportunities for young people, asserting that Bangladesh鈥檚 large population is not a burden but a valuable resource...
TEACHERS need to be paid well 鈥� well enough so that they can devote their time and energy to teaching without having to worry about the sustenance of the family. This is where the quality of education has suffered, with teachers continuing to go underpaid. Whilst the average salary of schoolteachers at the primary level, which lays the foundation...
The White Paper on the State of Bangladesh Economy finds rampant systematic corruption in health sector through procurement and supply chain management, outsourcing of services, and career mobility of young doctors....
Regulatory mood swings and corruption during the Awami League regime created disorderly conditions in the foreign exchange market, which led the foreign exchange reserves declining to levels too low for comfort, according to the White Paper on the State of Bangladesh economy submitted to chief adviser Muhammad Yunus on Sunday...
THE white paper on the state of the Bangladesh economy that a 12-member committee formed by the interim government has come up with presents a more appalling picture of the economy during the Awami League regime than was feared. The white paper, in short, has shed light on the dark side of the development narrative that the Awami League government, toppled by a student-mass uprising...
Limited access to finance has been one of the major challenges for small and medium enterprises over the past decade in Bangladesh, as banks generally favour larger and well-established companies in the country, according to the draft White Paper on the State of Bangladesh Economy submitted to chief adviser Muhammad Yunus on Sunday...
The head of the committee constituted for preparing the 'White Paper on the State of Bangladesh Economy', Debapriya Bhattacharya, on Saturday said that the economic condition of the country would determine the pace and the extent of the reforms...
In the 1960s, a war-torn nation struggled to recover from the devastating effects of conflict, scaled-down to leftovers of its former self. It began its development journey focusing on labour-intensive manufacturing such as textiles, which eventually opened the door to more advanced industries. Fast forward to 2024 and this country is now one of the world鈥檚...
The chief of the committee on the preparation for 鈥榃hite Paper on the State of Bangladesh Economy鈥�, Debapriya Bhattacharya said on Saturday that everyone鈥檚 active participation was needed to bring changes in the country for reclaiming civil rights in the society...
Reliance on external debts has introduced significant vulnerabilities to the Bangladesh economy, said Syed Yusuf Saadat, a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue, on Sunday...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Ashraf Ahmed on Saturday said that the policy of higher interest rates and tighter liquidity management adopted by the government to control inflation should be reversed after December, otherwise private sector investments would decline, hindering new job creation...
International Chambers of Commerce Bangladesh (ICCB) president Mahbubur Rahman has said since the Russia-Ukraine war broke out in February 2022, Bangladesh has been experiencing economic crisis due to escalated prices of global commodities since the country鈥檚 foreign currency reserves depleted fast amid higher import bills...