ওয়াসীম সোবহানের ভাবনা

রবি ঠাকুর অনুধাবন করিয়াছিলেন যে, জননী সাতকোটি সন্তানেরে বাঙালি করিয়াছেন; মানুষ করেননি। তা এই জননী বর্তমানে চোদ্দকোটি বাঙালি ধারন করিতেসে। এই চোদ্দকোটির মধ্যে যখন কেউই মানুষ হয় নাই; তখন ক্রিকেটারদের মধ্যে মানুষ খুঁজা, তথা মনুষ্যত্ব খুঁজা একটু উচ্চবিলাশীতা নয় কি? গোবরে পদ্ম ফোটে; তবে শুধু পাঠ্য-পুস্তকে। বাস্তবে গোবরে গু-মাছি ভন ভন করে।

I was at a seminar recently where the finance minister and leading economists gave speeches. I clapped with enthusiasm after Mr. Abul Mal Muhit's speech. The lady sitting beside me asked "Are you that impressed?" I said "I am clapping not because of the speech but for the fact that it has ended."

There was this robbery in Khulna city. There were two robbers named Kadu and Ledu. The leader Kadu shouted: "Don't move, money belongs to the state, life belongs to you". Everyone in the bank laid down quietly. This is called "Mind Changing Concept" : Changing the conventional way of thinking at the workplace. ------------------------------------------------- One attractive lady lay on the table provocatively. The robber shouted at her"Please be civilized! This is a robbery and not a rape attempt!" This is called "Being Professional" : Focus only on the work at hand. ------------------------------------------------- Robbers had two large bags with them. So they took only the bigger bank notes, leaving the small notes behind. This is called "Targeting right segment" : Focus on the niche that gives more returns. ------------------------------------------------- The robber with fine shooting skill held everyone hostage w...

National heroes – do we know them? Essentially in this era of fast moving, the people, who leave everything behind, go to a foreign land and work there to boost up the remittance of our country, are no less then national heroes.  In 2012, there was a record in the amount of remittance sent to Bangladesh. It was over 14 billion US Dollars. The figure is 10 percent higher than that of 2011. This huge an amount of remittance eased the pressure on the economy at an international level which also accounted for more than 10% of 2012 fiscal’s GDP. This sudden raise of incoming remittance was possible mainly due to suddenly increased availability of jobs around the world, especially in the Middle East. According to the government data, more than 8 million Bangadeshis work abroad; and more are to be recruited soon. Around 100000 more workers are expected to go to Hong Kong for work. These new workers are to be trained and taken full responsibility by the government. However the mistakes ma...

The world is becoming faster every day and time has become more valuable than ever. To cope, Bangladesh’s financial sector needs a concrete and stable E-payment system that should ensure even faster money transferring between business to business and between individuals to business; that too effortlessly. This is not just going to help the business arena but also facilitate people from various communities and interest groups of the country. A quick money transfer system saves time and eliminates risks in carrying the cash; that too in a society where hijacking has become regular than occasional. Bangladesh Bank has taken a few initiatives to establish quick and safe payment system since 2006. As consequences, electronic methods of payment started to become popular. People are now paying bills and performing maximum money transaction using Debit/Credit cards, Internet or mobile phones. Bangladesh Bank introduced a partnership with the Department for International Development, ...

Poverty is a global problem, it has always been. Researchers and policymakers have been trying to figure out ways to eradicate poverty for decades. Researchers did research, policymakers made policies, development agencies carried out development work, but most of the poor remained poor. Why has the status of the poor not improved over the past two decades? Are they responsible for their plight? Or did the policies fail at larger extent? Main causes of poverty perhaps are lack of access to finance and faulty resource distribution method. With limited access to finance and a small representation or voice in the political and public debates, the poor find it even harder to cope with poverty, let alone escape from it. The poor people are naturally excluded from credit services in the formal financial sector in many countries, since availing credit requires collaterals. The poor primarily have to depend on family connections and the informal sector for capital and credit facilit...

Did we take full advantage of globalization? May be not; but whatever we took, is not bad at all. Finance ministers of Bangladesh have not been dumb as rest of the cabinet in their respected period. So Bangladesh was able to flow with the tide of globalization. Here is a comprehensive coverage on  globalization and its effect on Bangladesh on Corporate Bangladesh site. The writer described the term as this - "With high tech communication and rapid transportation system, the term globalization has reached billions of people and made them share anything in just minutes. The phenomenon has crossed its own barrier and spread in terms of relationship of nations, domain, trade and corporations. " The writer covered a lot actually. According to him / her, Bangladesh was able to take full advantage of it and made quite a development in communication, sports and other areas. He / she said "the economy has been affected from various perspectives. The technology that bri...