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Business Woes in Bangladesh: The Case for Immediate Reforms
- Ekramul Hasan, Takrem Ferdous Surid
- Oct 6, 2024
Even a couple of years ago, Ease of Doing Business was used to be a major index highlighting business environment across the world and compatibility of the nations in harnessing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). With hardly any alteration, Bangladesh continuously ranked poorly in that index [....]
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Digital public infrastructure in Bangladesh: Progress, challenges, and future prospects
- Eshrat Sharmin, Takrem Ferdous Surid
- May 7, 2024
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) refers to the technological and institutional framework that supports the delivery of e-government services to citizens, businesses, and other stakeholders. The DPI scenario in Bangladesh has been improving rapidly over the past decade with the vision to promote Bangladesh [....]
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Doing Business versus the real Business Environment in Indian States
- Sabyasachi Kar, Sudeepto Roy
- Dec 5, 2018
The World Bank’s Doing Business (DB) rankings for 2019 are out and India has again made a jump to 77th position from 100th in 2018, which too was 30 notches up from 130th in 2017. These rankings are based on the country’s performance in several areas, like [....]
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Transitions between growth episodes: Do institutions matter and do some institutions matter more?
- Dr Selim Raihan, Kunal Sen, Sabyasachi Kar
- Aug 2, 2016
A large literature has examined the role of institutions in explaining economic growth. While the earlier literature has examined the role of institutions in determining long-run per capita income, a new literature examines the determinants of growth accelerations and deceleration episodes [....]
