The proposed national budget for the 2025鈥�26 financial year lacked the structural boldness and holistic approach needed to bring Bangladesh out of its current economic distress, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue, a local think tank, on Tuesday.
MACROECONOMIC performance, despite some improvements in the past nine months of the interim government, has still remained a cause for concern. A lack of political stability and the absence of necessary institutional reforms are believed to be hindering largely sustained macroeconomic progress. The Centre for Policy Dialogue in its third interim review of the...
The Centre for Policy Dialogue on Tuesday said that the partial reforms being pursued by the interim government over the past nine months were less effective in bringing about economic stability...
Centre for Policy Dialogue executive director Fahmida Khatun on Tuesday said that the interim government of Bangladesh should announce a specific date regarding the next general elections...
The Centre for Policy Dialogue laid emphasis on providing young people with the tools to participate in the digital world for mitigating unemployment, fostering innovation, driving economic growth, and promoting social inclusion...
Investment in Bangladesh could face obstacles if the upcoming national election is not held within the promised timeframe, warned Professor Mustafizur Rahman, distinguished fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue...
The amount in tax evasion by the taxpayers reached approximately Tk聽226,236 crore in 2023, according to a study by the Centre for Policy Dialogue...
Executive director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Fahmida Khatun on Saturday said the high tariff policy of the US is a 鈥榳akeup鈥� call for Bangladesh since the country would not get more duty facility beyond LDC graduation.
The Centre for Policy Dialogue on Sunday urged the government to increase tax-free income threshold for personal income to Taka 4 lakh in the upcoming fiscal year 2025-26 (FY26) budget given the prevailing high inflationary situation...
Dr Fahmida Khatun expressed her disappointment over the decision to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate and impose additional supplementary duties on more than 100 products by the interim government, just six months after it assumed power following the fall of the Awami League regime, which crumbled like ninepins in the face of a mass uprising in August last year...
The Centre for Policy Dialogue on Wednesday suggested closing down the private commercial banks which are now under life support and the finance ministry鈥檚 Financial Institutions Division for the division鈥檚 鈥榙ubious鈥� role in the financial sector...
Debapriya Bhattacharya, distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue and convener of the Citizen鈥檚 Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh, observed that interim government has introduced greater transparency in the current economic situation, offering a lesson for upcoming governments.
Labour sector experts at a dialogue on Sunday said that Bangladesh鈥檚 labour sector was in a bad shape and it needed reforms...
Experts on Tuesday emphasised introducing digital literacy and science, technology, engineering and mathematics training to equip young women for the job market...
Bureaucrats, who assume multiple roles as administrators, politicians and businesspeople, pose a significant challenge to ensuring good governance, observed Debapriya Bhattacharya, convenor of Citizen鈥檚 Platform and distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue...
Centre for Policy Dialogue chairman professor Rehman Sobhan on Saturday said that over the last decade, crony capitalism had spread from the parliament to the district, upazila and...
Centre for Policy Dialogue chairman Rehman Sobhan on Sunday said that one of the biggest problems in the country was failure to implement policies...
Chief adviser Muhammad Yunus on Sunday said that Centre for Policy Dialogue鈥檚 research and public awareness activities played a huge role in creating the mindset for the recent student uprising...
Centre for Policy Dialogue distinguished fellow Debapriya Bhattacharya on Thursday expressed his dissatisfaction as to why the assets amassed through looting had not been confiscated...
Centre for Policy Dialogue distinguished fellow Debapriya Bhattacharya on Monday said that poor quality of education due to insufficient investment and a dearth of employment amid...
MOST businesses coming to find the tax system complex, burdensome and prone to corruption speaks of the sorry state of the system. A Centre for Policy Dialogue study shows that 57.1 per cent of businesses perceive bribery as commonplace in tax-related interactions while 59.4 per cent of them find difficulties in compliance. Most businesses also find the...
The National Board of Revenue is grappling with various management challenges, as 57.1 per cent of businesses now perceives bribery as commonplace in tax-related interactions, up from 47.8 per cent in 2021, according to a Centre for Policy Dialogue study...
The worst-affected people received the least relief assistance in the flash flooding that swept parts of Bangladesh in August affecting over 5.6 million people, revealed a...
Reliance on external debts has introduced significant vulnerabilities to the Bangladesh economy, said Syed Yusuf Saadat, a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue, on Sunday...
The interim government has decided to prepare a white paper focusing on public finance, inflation, external balance, energy and power, private investment and employment in the country...
Protected by controversial laws, a fossil fuel business syndicate turned the power and energy sector into a hotbed of corruption and inefficiency, reducing the sector into the single-most important factor behind Bangladesh鈥檚 current economic challenges, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue on Sunday...
Speakers in a discussion on Wednesday demanded a revamp of the constitution to plug loopholes preventing any dictators from rising in future...
The banking sector is in a bad shape as massive irregularities gripped most banks and non-bank financial institutions in 15 years. The sector ran, as the Centre for Policy Dialogue says, beyond regulatory control while the central bank favoured certain individuals and groups. The think tank says that Tk 92,261 crore was embezzled in 24 major banking scams...
Approximately Tk 92,261 crore has been embezzled in 24 major banking scandals between 2008 and 2023, according to think tank Centre for Policy Dialogue.
The Centre for Policy Dialogue on Wednesday said that Bangladesh was lagging behind in securing the geographical identification on the country鈥檚 products due its inaction in this connection...