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Market-centric approach yields rich dividends

Market-centric approach yields rich dividends

BK Mukhopadhyay 2018-07-27 21:47:13

Over to Coca Cola slogans, the world's largest beverage company with 20 billion dollars' worth of brand and over 700,000 system employees: 'I'd like to buy the world a Coke.' 'Red, white, and you! Cok...

Slavery no anachronism, the curse persists

Slavery no anachronism, the curse persists

Shihab Sarkar 2018-07-26 21:03:32

Those who go out every morning in Dhaka to have a brisk walk may have noticed them. Some haggard-looking people are found squatting in rows on roadsides, a spade and a cane basket kept before each of...

Islamic banking practice needs to be reformed

Islamic banking practice needs to be reformed

Afzalul Haq 2018-07-25 21:41:42

Islamic banks collect their profit-sharing deposits on the basis of Mudaraba principle. According to this principle, the depositors are supposed to get profit on the basis of predetermined income shar...

How banks use data in their regular operation

How banks use data in their regular operation

Nironjan Roy 2018-07-24 21:41:43

We are living in the era of computers. Any information is considered to be data and banks run based on them. Data ownership and data management have become very challenging tasks in the present-day...

Profit-sharing module of Mudaraba distorted  by Weightage method

Profit-sharing module of Mudaraba distorted by Weightage method

Afzalul Haq 2018-07-24 21:29:24

A recent FE report on the workshop on 'Islamic Banking Operation of Banks' organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) has highlighted a significant aspect of Islamic banking in Ba...

Open Banking - a new era of smart relationship

Open Banking - a new era of smart relationship

Md. Abdul Kader   2018-07-23 20:38:55

Banking is about to undergo a major shift. Whether we bank in person, over phone, online or mobile, our relationships with banks have not changed much alongside technological advancements. With the...

Supply chain financing: Bangladesh perspective

Supply chain financing: Bangladesh perspective

Rafiqul Islam and A. S. M. Ahsan Habib 2018-07-23 20:32:28

All types of financing are associated with risks. Banks or financial institutions want to increase their financial operation without increasing their risks. Supply chain financing is a short-term fina...

Global trade under clouds

Global trade under clouds

B K Mukhopadhyay 2018-07-21 21:40:03

The World Bank is of the view that after reaching 3.1 per cent in both 2017 and 2018, global growth is expected to decelerate over the next two years as global slack dissipates, major central banks re...

Trump goes to Europe: Symptoms of an empire in chaos

Trump goes to Europe: Symptoms of an empire in chaos

Muhammad Mahmood 2018-07-21 21:03:16

President Donald Trump travelled to Europe to attend a two-day North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in Brussels beginning on July 11, then from there he travelled to Britain and then onto...

Lesson from China's bullet train re-innovation

Lesson from China's bullet train re-innovation

M. Rokonuzzaman 2018-07-20 21:24:32

Recent unfolding trade disputes between China and the USA appears to be primarily targeted to China's re-innovation strategy spelled out in 'Made in China 2025'. But the genesis of introducing and abs...

Sport and sustainable development

Sport and sustainable development

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2018-07-19 21:23:31

Throughout the world sport has a popular appeal among people of all ages. It plays a great role in our life as it keeps us healthy, wealthy and active. Regular participation in sport and physical acti...

Of sport events and their celebrations

Of sport events and their celebrations

Shihab Sarkar     2018-07-19 21:12:46

The distinction of being a global festival could have gone to a social or cultural event. But it didn't. Of all areas, the reputation went to a sport event. Since 1930, the mega event of FIFA World...

Social media and film industry

Social media and film industry

Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2018-07-18 21:30:57

The immense potential of social media at promoting a movie became clear through the success of 2009 Hollywood blockbuster 'Avatar'. A few months prior to its release, the social media campaign of the...

The significance of Mandela Day

The significance of Mandela Day

Kamal Uddin Ahmed 2018-07-17 21:15:32

Nelson Mandela International Day (or "Mandela Day") is celebrated on July 18 every year. On this day Mandela was born in South Africa in 1918. He would have turned exactly 100 years this year. The Un...

France win the final, Croatia win the hearts

France win the final, Croatia win the hearts

Maswood Alam Khan 2018-07-16 21:54:17

Congratulations to France for winning the trophy, 20 years after their first world title, with great players and bright future! They've impressed throughout the tournament. Their defenders, midfielder...

The curtain on Russia World Cup 2018 falls

The curtain on Russia World Cup 2018 falls

Maswood Alam Khan   2018-07-15 22:00:16

Chances were created by England, but Belgium put the kibosh on those chances. Opportunities were made for more goals, but goalkeepers of both sides stood in the way. It was impressive to see how bot...

Croatia buries England's World Cup dream

Croatia buries England's World Cup dream

Maswood Alam Khan 2018-07-12 21:35:33

Croatia among the quarterfinalists were the most tired team. They were extremely worn-out of extra-time and penalty shoot-outs in their previous matches. After England scored their opener, at the 5th...

Remembering a great scholar

Remembering a great scholar

Muhammad Abdul Mazid   2018-07-12 21:30:09

The late Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah (July 10, 1885-July 13, 1969) was our national pride because of his many glorious contributions to our national heritage, language and culture. As a celebrated phi...

President Trump's unchartered territory

President Trump's unchartered territory

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2018-07-11 21:05:03

It is more than well established that President Trump is determined to demean the accomplishments of Obama administration. His disdain against President Obama stems from the fact that Barak Obama came...

France have easily made it

France have easily made it

Maswood Alam Khan 2018-07-11 20:41:25

France have made it to the World Cup and may deservedly or fortuitously lift the trophy, a coveted prize of solid 18-carat gold, in Moscow on Sunday. Samuel Umtiti's header put France in the final wit...

Trump's trade war: Decoding the game plan

Trump's trade war: Decoding the game plan

Mohamed A. El-Erian in New York 2018-07-10 21:27:37

The latest round of tit-for-tat tariffs by the United States and China has intensified the ongoing global debate about whether the world is facing a mere trade skirmish or heading rapidly toward a ful...

BSEC Codes of Corporate Governance - a critique

BSEC Codes of Corporate Governance - a critique

A K A Muqtadir   2018-07-10 21:25:19

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) issued a new set of directives known as 'Codes of Corporate Governance' in June 2018, and asked the listed companies to comply with those by...

Global trade's re-balancing act

Global trade's re-balancing act

Larry Hatheway   2018-07-09 21:19:27

Henry Kissinger once observed that "Peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power." The same principle applies to trade. It's no accident that the two greatest periods of globalisation...

Stretching the future of denim industry

Stretching the future of denim industry

Shaquib Quoreshi 2018-07-08 21:18:09

The success of Bangladeshi denim and denim products were widely covered in the media during the 8th Bangladesh Denim Expo held in May 2018 in Dhaka. Reports of high growth and high market shares of Ba...

Recent developments in banking industry and regulatory capture

Recent developments in banking industry and regulatory capture

MS Siddiqui 2018-07-06 21:17:11

A regulatory authority is a public authority responsible for exercising autonomous power over any particular sector(s) to formulate policy and implement those to keep the sector(s) performing with a d...

Viewing socio-economy through a semi-political prism

Viewing socio-economy through a semi-political prism

Asjadul Kibria 2018-07-05 21:36:13

When economists write for newspapers, they generally struggle to keep their write-ups short in length with less jargon, almost no graphs and a few numbers. The reason is limited space in newspapers an...

The case for a National Paddy Day

The case for a National Paddy Day

Shihab Sarkar   2018-07-05 21:30:08

The world's farmers have been celebrating their harvests since the early days of civilisations. The event stood in stark contrast to the hunting people, who led a nomadic life in the main moving from...

Achieving sustainable industrial development

Achieving sustainable industrial development

Selim Raihan and Sunera Saba Khan 2018-07-04 22:08:27

Industrialistion is the process of structural transformation through which resources (especially labour) move from agriculture to industry and more specifically to manufacturing. Industrialisation has...

When WHO lists gaming disorder as a disease

When WHO lists gaming disorder as a disease

Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2018-07-04 21:36:35

It is common for parents from the upper-middle and upper income strata of Dhaka's society to buy their children video gaming consoles and other gaming devices. Their reasons are simple: it is better t...

What a difference between Monday and Tuesday!

What a difference between Monday and Tuesday!

Maswood Alam Khan 2018-07-04 21:24:02

Profoundly shocked! A World Cup knockout game between two football-loving nations marred by so many scuffles, fouls, and yellow cards! This was not a football of pedigree. This was not a world event w...