A friend visiting Bangladesh remarked on how much the country’s current GDP growth rate (7.9% in the last fiscal year) was a source of pride for Bangladeshis. Many pointed out with delight how Bangladesh had trumped its more vaunted neighbour, India (which grew at 7.1% year-on-year).
Working as the annual global benchmark for publication of open government data, The Global Open Data Index (GODI) is run by the Open Knowledge Network. Their survey is crowdsourced and measures the openness of government data according to the Open Definition.
A new year is an opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start fresh. It’s also a good time to reflect on our actions in
Moody, downgraded the Macro Profile for the banks of Bangladesh from, ‘Weak’ to ‘Weak-‘, adding a negative one-notch adjustment to Credit Conditions. The credit rating
The World Investment Report 2019 has described the deceleration of the global economy. More specifically, the report talks about the slowing down of Foreign Direct
Companies such as Rahimafrooz, United Group of Industries, BSRM, DBL, and many others have continued to pave the way for help meet the country’s development goals.
Some would say that the World Investment Report 2019, is the harbinger of bad news. It is easy to see why; according to the
It is safe to say that the budget speech delivered by the honorable Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, on 13th June 2019, had all of
The financial budget for the year 2019-2020 was presented before the parliament on 13th June 2019. It is a very solemn ceremony, where the Minister
How much trouble is the banking sector in Every year, the World Bank Group releases its annual review, known as Bangladesh Development Update, of
