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Industries need to be energy efficient

Energy price hike should not be abrupt and unusually high. Industries should be given the time to adjust to the changes Industries have been on the backfoot for a while now due to foreign currency and energy shortages. There have not been any significant improvements regarding these between April and…

Should we be happy with forex reserve?

The growing foreign exchange reserve with Bangladesh Bank though strength for us but actually it is not a matter of happiness. There is uncertainty of dropping foreign direct investments that in first quarter in the current calendar year it fell over 13 per cent to US$800 million than corresponding period…

Doing business in the pandemic

When Corona’s horrific attack hit China, business friends there repeatedly warned and feared it would spread quickly to Bangladesh and to the world. Personal initiative was in the beginning. I sat with my staff in the first week of February on how to deal with the Corona disaster. Although there…