Bangladesh's insurance sector presents a striking paradox: despite having an unusually large number of insurance companies, insurance penetration remains among the lowest in the world. For example, while most vehicles on the country's roads...
When the Swiss National Bank quietly releases its annual banking statistics, most of the world barely notices. But for the citizens of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, three nations perpetually locked in a cycle of poverty, debt, and underd...
The international conference titled "Roadmap for Trade, Growth and Economic Diplomacy: Navigating Risks, Leveraging Resilience," jointly organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA)...
Bangladesh's economic success over the past two decades is undeniable. Yet behind this narrative of steady growth lies a fundamental weakness that threatens the sustainability of that progress-namely, sustainable development. This weakness...
Bangladesh maintains a robust and multifaceted relationship with the United States of America (USA), encompassing diplomatic, economic, cultural and numerous other dimensions. The cooperation between the two nations has reached remarkable...
Bank is a place for the safekeeping of one's money. In the olden days it was the mattress. One reason for this change in behaviour is inflation that chips into the value of money. The rich are now called Crorepatis. In the olden days they w...
Culture in Bangladesh once felt like something you could step into without trying. It was in neighbourhoods, in friendships, in the way people gathered and shared music, literature, and conversations. Now it feels different. Not gone, but c...
The government's latest initiative to strengthen the customs valuation marks an important step towards addressing one of the most persistent weaknesses in Bangladesh's external trade regime -- trade misdeclaration. Through a general order i...
It has been almost 10 years since Bangladesh participated in the debate on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from China. The nation has seen a lot of changes in its politics, economy and foreign policy in this time. However, the talk on th...
