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Government must check sources of money of growing fat bank accounts
| Updated at 12:00am on October 14, 2019
THE number of bank accounts with more than Tk 10 million in deposit having been almost tripled — by 288.5 per cent, to be precise,...
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Govt must attend to educational inequality
| Updated at 12:00am on July 19, 2019
THE rural-urban differences in education, which are primarily thought to have stemmed from an unbalanced government focus on education policies regarding resource allocation and educational...
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Looking through the screen at the world’s suffering
Edward Curtin | Updated at 12:00am on May 13, 2019
If you are really going to be free, you have to overcome the love of wealth and the fear of death.— Martin Luther King, Jr...
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Govt fails to reduce disparity between rich, poor: Menon
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:09am on March 04, 2019
Workers Party of Bangladesh president Rashed Khan Menon on Sunday told in parliament that the government had failed to reduce the gap between the rich...
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Income disparity is among leading global trends
Grete Mautner | Updated at 12:00am on December 13, 2018
IT’S hardly a secret that there was an abrupt increase in income disparity pretty much all across the globe in the period from 1980 to...
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Inequality grew faster in last 5 years in Bangladesh: CPD
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on December 10, 2018
Inequality in income, asset and consumption grew faster along with deterioration in quality of economic management in the second half of the last decade, which...
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Development policy must not tilt against rural people
| Updated at 12:05am on May 19, 2018
BENEFITS of economic growth not reaching rural people adequately, which is worrying, suggests that successive governments have been bent on urban-centric development and have largely...
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Growth to bring no good amid highest disparity: economists
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:03am on April 28, 2018
Economists at a discussion in Dhaka on Friday said that the country’s economic growth would bring no positive results amid widening income disparity that became...
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Gender disparity in SME loan disbursement unacceptable
| Updated at 12:05am on March 22, 2018
IT IS, rather, disconcerting that financial services for women is declining at a time when the government is celebrating increased women’s participation in the formal...
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Saying ‘rubbish’ won’t make economic disparity go away
| Updated at 12:05am on January 17, 2018
JUST as the government has embarked on a propaganda blitz of ‘unnayan mela’ all over the country, The CPD has come forward with data which...
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