A HIGH allocation for women in the budget and the stringent oversight of the allocation can ensure a proper use of the budget funds meant for spending on women to attend to gender inequality. In the light of such a proposition, participants in a pre-budget dialogue, 鈥楢dvancing gender-responsive budgeting FFD4 Outcome鈥� that the Citizen鈥檚 Platform for SDGs...
Anti-Corruption Commission chair Mohammad Abdul Momen on Sunday said that corruption was creating inequality in society...
The absence of a national minimum wage forces a huge number of employees and workers in many formal and informal sectors in the country to remain highly low paid, widening income inequality...
In communist Cuba, some customers are more equal than others, as a 40-year-old math teacher who was out shopping recently in Havana with his son discovered...
A SHARP increase in the number of bank accounts having deposits exceeding Tk 1 crore in the last quarter of 2024 brings a number of issues and concerns to the fore. As Bangladesh Bank data show, the number of such accounts rose by 4,954 in the quarter, reaching 122,081 from 117,127 in September. While the rise indicates the restoration...
Religious affairs adviser Professor AFM Khalid Hossain has said that Sharia banking plays an important role in poverty alleviation and ensuring income inequality...
Women leaders at an event on Saturday shared their leadership journeys, highlighted the challenges they have faced, and urged all stakeholders to work together to eliminate gender inequalities...
THE recent decision to provide dearness allowance for government employees has sparked debates among economists, politicians and policymakers. Many arguments seem disconnected from reality and fail to consider the broader socio-economic context. Critics have presented views that do not always align with the financial struggles faced by most government employees...
Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson won Nobel prize in economics on Monday to for research into wealth inequality between nations.
Experts at a seminar on Sunday said that food wastage intensified food insecurity and social inequalities, creating a significant divide between those who can afford to waste food and those who struggle with hunger...
To check rising income inequality, the government should focus on alternative sources of revenues, including wealth tax, recovery of laundered money, recovery of undisclosed money and tax on foreign citizens, said the Bangladesh Economic Association on Monday...
Leaders of the Communist Party of Bangladesh on Sunday at a press conference said that the proposed budget for financial year 2024-25 would widen inequality and the rich would be richer while the poor would be poorer...
Higher revenue generation from direct taxes to tackle dangerous-looking income inequality should get top priority in the upcoming national budget....
