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Dear readers, please enjoy our latest March 2012 issue.

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Key Milestones

Our website marks its fourth year online
In publication since 1966 in the English language covering various economic and business stories
Ever maintaining high journalistic standards without compromise

..:: FROM THE EDITOR ::..

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder and the chairperson of BRAC, is a great name in the socio-economic perspective of Bangladesh and highly acknowledged and acclamied for his exceptionally pragmatic and thought-provoking ideas all over the world. He observes: The year 2012 marks forty years of BRAC's existence. In these four decades since its inception in February 1972 as a small relief and rehabilitation project in a remote corner of Bangladesh, BRAC has grown to become the largest ....Details

..:: FEATURE ::..

Dithering over maritime boundary puts Bangladesh at disadvantage

Shahidul Islam Chowdhury

Successive governments have neglected delimitation of maritime boundary, leaving Bangladesh in a disadvantageous position insofar as raising demands for equitable resolution of such disputes are concerned, says M Khurshed Alam, additional secretary in charge of the UNCLOS wing of the foreign ministry. Of Bangladesh, tells New Age in an exclusive interview recently.

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..:: ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS ::..

Macroeconomic stability for economic growth and employment

Rizwanul Islam

In recent weeks and months, the issue of macroeconomic stability has received a good deal of attention in Bangladesh. The concern appears to have arisen from a number of relatively recent developments in the economy that include: (i) persistence of high inflation, (ii) excessive government borrowing from the banking system, (iii) depreciation of the domestic

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..:: ECONOMIC OBSERVER REPORTS ::..

Prime Minister urges officials to make government�s successes sustainable

The Bangladesh prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has urged the government officials to apply their experience, competence and talent to make the successes of the government sustainable.

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