Author: Shamsul Huq Zahid

Shamsul Huq Zahid
THE WRITER IS A SENIOR JOURNALIST. HE CAN BE REACHED AT ZAHIDMAR10@GMAIL.COM
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BANKING SECTOR: THE GAPING FAULT LINE

‘Nothing is going right in the country’s banking sector’, stated former Bangladesh Bank deputy governor, Khandaker Ibrahim Khaled, at a discussion meeting in Dhaka recently.

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Mobile Telephones As Change Agents

When mobile telephony made its entry into Bangladesh in a very modest scale in 1989, it was beyond the wildest imagination of anyone that a

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Unhealthy VAT & SD Law Dilemma

When late Finance Minister Saifur Rahman, in 1991, first introduced Value Added Tax (VAT) as a means to mobilize more resources for bankrolling the national

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Bigger Budgets, Tougher Hurdles

To keep up with the trend witnessed in recent years, the size of the national budget for the next financial year (2017-18) will, in all