Dysfunctional governance remains serious problem
Bangladesh has the image of a developmental welfare state, as reflected in the country's Constitution and in numerous other official documents, but the country has to contend with a serious problem of dysfunctional governance, former caretaker government adviser Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud has said.
The country is rated very poorly according to most global indicators of political and economic governance, said the economist while addressing a session of the international conference on 'Political Economy, Accountability and Governance' at a local hotel on Thursday.
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Spending on infrastructure falls on increased debt
The country’s public spending in physical and socio-economic infrastructure has come down substantially on jump in per capita debt, share of debt in GDP and debt service payment as well.
These are also escalating intergenerational debt burden in the future. The domestic debt might reach Tk. 260,498.44 crore and Tk 318,953.08 crore in FY15 and FY16 respectively, which was Tk 202,044 crore in FY14.
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(UO), an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, in its October issue of Bangladesh Economic Update 2014, rev...
(UO), an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, in its October issue of Bangladesh Economic Update 2014, rev...
Poverty hinders potential housing options
Poverty prevents people from accessing potential housing options, and make others hard to sustain. There are significant linkages between housing and poverty. These have impact over people's lives and livelihood. As such, these linkages deserve greater attention so that they can be properly addressed.
“People's experience of poverty, access to secure tenure and housing circumstances are intertwined. Housing forms an important part of people’s material living conditions and contributes to their life chances.
The significance of the ...
The significance of the ...
Alternative income opportunities for Rana Plaza survivors
Marium Begum counts herself “very lucky” to be alive, thanks to the firefighters who pulled her from the debris 24 hours after the Rana Plaza building complex collapsed in April 2013.
A month after recovering fully from her injuries, Begum had to take a job at a garment factory in Savar in order to feed her children. But the memory of the worst garment factory disaster in history, in which over 1,130 people died, still haunts her. Most of the victims were women, and four of her co-workers who died were a metre away from her when the building collapsed.
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Memorandum to ensure healthy sanitation system
A memorandum of understanding has been signed today ( 26-08-2014) among Dhaka North City Corporation, Dhaka South City Corporation, Dhaka WASA and WaterAid Bangladesh for construction, renovation as well as development of workable management models of public toilets in Dhaka city.
In the modest ceremony held in the conference room of Local Government Division (LGD) at Bangladesh Secretariat Mr Monjur Hossain, Senior Secretary, LGD expressed his confidence from this collaboration - ‘a fully functional public sanitation system in the city, especially for the...
In the modest ceremony held in the conference room of Local Government Division (LGD) at Bangladesh Secretariat Mr Monjur Hossain, Senior Secretary, LGD expressed his confidence from this collaboration - ‘a fully functional public sanitation system in the city, especially for the...
Investment in private sector may shrink on BB stance
The move by Bangladesh Bank (BB) for maintaining higher cash reserve requirement (CRR) to absorb access liquidity from the banking system would fail to contain inflationary pressure rather it would adversely hamper private sector investment in the country.
The monetary policy for the first half of current fiscal (2014-15) may fail to achieve the target of taming inflation to 6.5 percent and ensuring the private sector credit growth of 16.5 percent, set for the first half of FY2014-15.
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