Planning and Education Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud inaugurated the conference

The government’s decision to raise salaries of all public sector workers by 100 percent in 2015 had inadvertently pushed many least skilled private sector workers below the poverty line temporarily, said a study

A proper design of incentives and honest monitoring through the adoption of technologies will effectively reduce bribery and extortion in the public sector, said experts today

The government should target reducing demand through ensuring market-based interest and exchange rates as well as cutting allocation for infrastructure projects to rein in inflation and protect the foreign currency reserves, said economists yesterday.

Fixing priorities and assessing the social costs and economic benefits of large infrastructure projects have become important for Bangladesh as many of them are funded by costly suppliers’ credit, said Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud yesterday.

Bangladesh's gross domestic product (GDP) growth would exceed the 7 percent mark in the current fiscal year, according to provisional

The blueprint for the sale of two new franchises and 50-plus players in IPL 2015 - including those from Chennai and Rajasthan - is ready, waiting to receive the required ratification at the BCCI's Annual General Meeting (AGM) next month.