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Volume 2, Issue 2

Volume 2, Issue 2

Note from the Executive Editor

The ailing banking sector has become a major drag on the Bangladesh economy.  A fundamental cause of the ailment is the rising default loans in the banking sector. Salehuddin Ahmed, a professor at BRAC university and a former governor of the Bangladesh Bank, explores...
Volume 2, Issue 2

Bangladesh economy trapped in default loans

Default loans in the banking sector of Bangladesh hit an all-time high of Tk 182,295 crore. Despite Bangladesh Bank (BB), the central bank of Bangladesh, offering various incentives and concessions to reduce the default loans, the total amount of default loans has increased almost...

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Bangladesh’s external debt management: Some emerging concerns

Context and backdrop A country’s external debts obligations include debts incurred by the government, including...
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Golden Bengal: Myth or reality

The National Anthem of Bangladesh, a poem by the Nobel Laureate Poet Rabindranath Tagore,...
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Bangladesh’s Role in the BIMSTEC

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) was formed...
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Reflections on initiating computer literacy in Pirkhain

I am an expatriate Bangladeshi living abroad for many years. I visit Bangladesh from...
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Join us in Bangladesh’s development journey

Bangladesh has already shown a tremendous development track record since 1971. For a brief...
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Empowering Bangladesh’s working women: A long way to go

Financial independence of working women is a crucial element in societal progress, fostering empowerment...
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Threatened amphibians of Bangladesh

Amphibians are small cold-blooded vertebrates (vertebrates have backbones) that do not have scales. They...
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Lest we forget Dr. Abdul Haq

Dr. Abdul Haq was one of a kind who dedicated all his life in...
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Life of a Bangladeshi in Rome

Millions of Bangladeshis migrate to different parts of the world and work in different...
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2024 Boishakhi Melas, Dallas, Texas

“এসো হে বৈশাখ, এসো, এসো” – With this song of Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore, Bengalis...
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A visit to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace

In August 2023, I traveled to William Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon (henceforth called Stratford), England,...

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Volume 2, Issue 2

Note from the Executive Editor

The ailing banking sector has become a major drag on the Bangladesh economy.  A...
Volume 2, Issue 2

Bangladesh economy trapped in default loans

Default loans in the banking sector of Bangladesh hit an all-time high of Tk...
Volume 2, Issue 2

Bangladesh’s external debt management: Some emerging concerns

Context and backdrop A country’s external debts obligations include debts incurred by the government, including...
Volume 2, Issue 2

Golden Bengal: Myth or reality

The National Anthem of Bangladesh, a poem by the Nobel Laureate Poet Rabindranath Tagore,...

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