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Is BTRC driving telecom market towards monopoly?

M S Siddiqui

Both mobile network operators (MNOs) and internet service providers (ISPs) in Bangladesh face a wide range of taxes and revenue-sharing mechanisms, which inflate the cost of data services. The tax burden for telecom providers includes:15% VAT is levied uniformly across telecom services, affecting both MNOs and ISPs, and an additional 10% SD is applied to ...

G2B++ model of cooperation needed for our economic development

M S Siddiqui

The socio-cultural reality is that government and academia have very negative impression of business. Government means both politicians and bureaucrats and academia usually maintains a distance from business. Close cooperation is imperative for economic development. It is widely discussed that bureaucratic bodies often encounter obstacles such as a lack of innovation and limited exposure to contemporary ...

Blockchain tech ensures transparency of financial transactions

M S Siddiqui

A blockchain is a Distributed ledger technology (DLT) that can be used to store permanent and tamper-proof records of digital data. The store has immutability and irreversibility of ledger state having data persistence and provenance, accountability and transparency, etc. The process allows keeping data in consecutive blocks like a chain. The recorded data is permanent ...

Krishak Bazar, Janatar Bazar good ventures to ensure fair price for farmers

M S Siddiqui

Poor market Structure is a reason for spatial price difference of vegetables in Bangladesh. The agricultural marketing system is unproductive because of the diverse territories, scattered land, natural calamities and relatively poor situation of infrastructure (Asian Productivity Organization, 2007).The farmers in Bangladesh are almost cut off from the market. It is well-known that while the ...

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