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Dr. Mahfuz Kabir

  • Research Director, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS)
  • Sat, 24 Aug 24
Dr. Mahfuz Kabir is Research Director at Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS), Dhaka. He holds PhD in Economics from School of Economics and Finance, Curtin University, Australia. As a professional economist, he has 22 years of experience of research and training at Bangladesh and abroad. His areas of research interest include trade and investment, transport and connectivity, system of environmental-economic accounting (SEEA), ecosystem accounting, regional integration in BIMSTEC and SAARC, Bangladesh-India relations, macroeconomic issues, disaster and risk management, climate change, renewable energy, budget, social protection, time series and panel data econometrics, stochastic frontier analysis, partial and computable general equilibrium modeling. He has published extensively from home and abroad that include World Bank, UNDP, Elsevier and Routledge.
Willful loan defaulters are enemies of nation and economy
Willful loan defaulters are enemies of nation and economy

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Sat, 24 Aug 24

Willful loan defaulters are enemies of nation and economy

The banking sector in Bangladesh is in trouble. Renowned economist Dr. Ahsan H. Mansur recently spoke at a seminar organized by the Economic Reporters Forum (ERF) on the topic "Problems in the Banking Sector and Solutions to Overcome Them." He pointed out that the figures for non-performing loans (NPLs) reported by the Bangladesh Bank do not reflect the true picture. According to Bangladesh Bank's statistics, as of June, the amount of NPLs in the banking sector stands at approximately 1.83 trillion BDT. However, this figure does not include written-off loans, restructured loans, or loans involved in legal disputes.