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Bangladesh’s UN moment must become more than a speech (opens the original)
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Prime Minister Tarique Rahman gave his first UN General Assembly address recently. With a new political era unfolding for Bangladesh, a challenging transition looms while the nation faces graduation out of the Least Developed Country status that it hopes will be delayed by three years. The nation is also seeking more global influence amid uncertainty due to wars, climate change, and economic fragmentation. His first UNGA address signalled ambitious intent, but the real challenge lies in translat
Amid narrowing choices, we need a credible economic strategy (opens the original)
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The three central banks responsible for setting the price of money globally recently took action in the same direction. The US Federal Reserve increased its target range to 3.75- 4 percent on September 16, its first increase since July 2023. The Bank of Japan, on September 18, increased its policy rate to around 1.25 percent. And on September 10, the European Central Bank increased its deposit rate to 2.5 percent. Though the Bank of England held, a third of its committee voted to tighten. Earlie
Crisis in Bangladesh’s Islamic banks: Liquidity is not capital, and a merger is not a cure (opens the original)
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On September 9, Parliament shut a door that shouldn’t have been opened to begin with. The Bank Resolution (Amendment) Bill repealed Section 18A of the Bank Resolution Act 2026. This section allowed the previous owners of a resolved bank to buy it back for 7.5% of the public money spent to bail it out. The previous owners would pay off the remaining 92.5% over two years at 10% simple interest. Those responsible for the lending that destroyed those banks can now repurchase them at a discount using
Taxpayers should not have to bear the cost of bad loans (opens the original)
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Bangladesh’s bad loan situation raises a question that accounting alone cannot answer: who should bear the losses? At the end of June 2026, non-performing loans (NPLs) reached about Tk 6,06,555 crore, or 32.78 percent of bank loans. A New Age report says Bangladesh Bank is considering extending the overdue period for classification from three months to nine. That would improve the reported NPL ratio without recovering any money. Delaying recognition leaves the loss where it was. Besides, repeate
Bangladesh and the United States: Beyond the tariff bargain (opens the original)
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The Bangladesh government lost much sleep following an announcement by the US government last spring. On April 2, 2025, US President Donald Trump introduced a 37 percent “reciprocal” tariff on Bangladeshi products. A single announcement put the country’s largest export destination at risk. The 10 months that followed saw intense negotiations: the rate moved from 37 percent to 35 percent, then to 20 percent in August, and finally, under the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART), signed on 9 Februar
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