One fine morning Dipa, a millennial living in Dhaka, woke up to a clogged toilet. After getting the toilet fixed by requesting plumbing service through Sheba.xyz (online service market) Dipa rushed to work on a Pathao (ride-sharing platform) bike. She jump started the day by ordering a coffee on Hungrynaki (online food delivery company). Later…
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Bangladesh’s financial sector will have to adopt new technologies and services in the post-Covid-19 period for the lenders to move their operations online and address the recent challenges faced by the industry, speakers said at a webinar yesterday. The coronavirus could be a boon for digital financial services (DFS) and although Bangladesh has already seen…
Bangladeshi entrepreneurs may be allowed to make equity investment aboard up to 25 per cent of their net annual income from exports, officials said. However, they will have to take prior permission from the government for the purpose, according to the draft ‘Capital Account Transactions (Overseas Equity Investment) Guidelines 2018’, prepared by the Bangladesh Bank.…
Mankind has witnessed many wars, crises and even pandemics but it has never ever faced anything of the kind and scale of the covid-19 pandemic. It has infected about 15 million people and killed more than 600,000 in the world including about 150,000 in the USA alone. This has brought the world economy to a…
It’s not possible to implement all objectives of the national budget, in keeping with all recommendations made by economists, businessmen and other stakeholders. Computing the budget in the light of targeting actual social problems and economic development goals is hardly possible either. Only through transparent management and strategy of the government can genuine efforts be…