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Top 20 loan defaulters in Bangladesh named

one crore =10 million one EUR = BDT 94.53 The honourable Finance Minister of Bangladesh Mr. AHM Mustafa Kamal informed the parliament today that there were 266,118 loan defaulters in the country as of December 2018. A High Court order, however, prevented names of some defaulters from being published, noted the finance minister. The top […]

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FDI, Water & Maritime 24 June 2015

Japan wins over China beyond South China Sea – for now

Two major powers in Asia, Japan and China have been all but bosom friends for centuries and now more so. Their rivalry range from fishing into each other waters to space research on one hand and dominance from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean and beyond on the other. In one of the recent business […]

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Agriculture & Fisheries 1 November 2020

Another $25m IFC loan to a Bangladeshi company PRAN

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International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector development arm of the World Bank Group, has provided yet another $25 million loan […]

FDI 21 September 2014

Korean Export Processing Zone at serious risk

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Instead of handing over the Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) to the investor, the government of Bangladesh plans to take back […]

Insights 24 August 2014

Dhaka needs to remove its rocky anti-FDI atmosphere

Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Lee Yun-young

Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Mr. Lee Yun-young has said Bangladesh should come out from protectionism and open up its market […]

Insights 7 July 2014

‘Welfare Associations’ to negotiate for rights at Bangladesh EPZ

The Government of Bangladesh today approved, in principle, draft of a labour law for Export Processing Zones (EPZ) with the provision […]

Insights 3 July 2014

Return of GSP seems far off – a lot more must be done

Bangladesh’s progress in implementation of the National Tripartite Plan of Action on Fire Safety and Structural Integrity (the Action Plan) which provides a […]

Insights 4 June 2014

Bangladesh halts shutdown of “unsafe” factories

The Bangladeshi government is refusing to shut down garment factories declared unsafe, following a row with independent inspectors over the […]