The rise in commodity prices has led to an increase in daily expenditure. The real income of the people has decreased. That’s why everyone hopes that the allocation in the social safety net sector will be increased in the coming budget. Even economists have suggested increasing the allocation for the social safety net. However, there […]
Policy makers expected many people to take advantage of this opportunity to bring money back into the country. But no one wanted to register their names as money launderers in the first 10 months of the financial year. When asked, Mustafizur Rahman, Distinguished Fellow, Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD), told Prothom Alo that “When the […]
NBR officials said that out of the total revenue collection of Rs 1,96,037.51 crore during this eight-month period, Rs 59,198.07 crore was received from customs duty, Rs 76,401.46 crore from VAT and Rs 60,437.98 crore from income tax and travel tax. This total revenue collection, however, is short of the revenue collection target of Tk […]
The most worrying fact revealed in the report is that Bangladesh tops the South Asian countries in terms of families spending money in the field of education. It was also found that private educational institutions charge nine times more fees than government institutions. Private tuition was less popular earlier. This practice was completely absent in […]
