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Haradhan Ganguly

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Mr. Haradhan Ganguly is a freelance contributor

Economic challenges for the forthcoming new year

Haradhan Ganguly

The gratifying performance of the national economy in the outgoing year makes us upbeat about dreaming for much more in the forthcoming year. However, the economy of departing year also has left some challenges for 2017 to be met in order to smoothen the way to 2021, by which time we are aspiring for attaining ...

Is it a rise in machinery import or in money laundering?

Haradhan Ganguly

Investments are not showing desired growth though prevailing bank interest rates are declining as per Bangladesh Bank's (BB) statistics. Bank's default scenario is getting wider day by day, thanks to BB's monitoring exercise. On the other side, machinery imports have been more than double. How funny it is! Production capacity build-up is going upward by ...

Shining South AsiaBut . . .

Haradhan Ganguly

South Asia needs to make considerable improvement in curbing corruption, establishing voice and accountability, instituting politicalstability and reducing violence and ensuring government effectiveness, regulatory quality and rule of law in the regionOptimistic economists envision South Asia which by 2030 will be an upper middle income region with high GDP growth rate, a strong middle class, ...

Unanimous EC — a gaseous wish at times

Haradhan Ganguly

When body politic is stinted with mutual exclusiveness, convergence on a point of compromise is a far cry off reality. Compromise or acceptance or forging unity in broad sense is done possible only in divergence or in diversity emanating from basic ideas of unity. But acceptability to formation of an institution in a prevailing mutually ...

A vibrant call for zero poverty

Haradhan Ganguly

World Bank in its latest update says that if Bangladesh is to come to be a zero poverty level by 2030, it needs to achieve nine per cent GDP growth every year, or to maintain the present growth rate with more inclusiveness. If we try to maintain both, that is enhancing growth and inclusiveness, in ...

What message we got?

Haradhan Ganguly

If "the string of pearl theory" is apt for the go of our aspiration of rising, we would embrace China in all her cooperation without having any prejudice of an imaginary loss of bilateralism with others. If such cooperation ensures not to be detrimental to any regional integrity and nearness meant for joint uplift and ...

Hats off to our finance minister

Haradhan Ganguly

Finance minister AMA Muhith boldly expressed annoyance over little access to global climate finance despite Bangladesh being one of the worst victims of climate change. His expressed his dismay at his recent meeting with World Bank Vice President for South Asia region Annette Dixon. The finance minister was attending annual meetings of World Bank and ...

Agriculture needs a big push

Haradhan Ganguly

The caption of The Daily Observer saying 'Bangladesh turns world's fourth largest rice producer' shows the strength of our resilient agriculture. Social protection has gone to such an extent that the poor are getting per kilograms of rice at TK 10 only. Remembering 70s of the last century, our agriculture could provide food only to ...

G20 Summit 2016

It's for world economy or encircling China?

Haradhan Ganguly

G20 summit proves western world is still concerted behind US hegemony to serve her geo-political interest. Hangzhou meeting has become so much sensitive about Asia leaving aside the global economy that is still facing multiple risks and challenges including a lack of growth momentum and consumption, turbulent financial markets, receding global trade and investment. We ...