'Closed for debt but open for business in equity'

The Express Tribune • Nov 3, 2026

'Closed for debt but open for business in equity'

Bangladesh's Finance Adviser to the Prime Minister, Dr Rashid Al Mehmood Titumir, on Monday proposed a five-point development paradigm for South Asia to deal with disruptive geopolitical challenges, emphasising that legitimacy matters for becoming a welfare state. In his keynote speech at the annual Sustainable Development Policy Conference, Titumir said regional countries needed to reconstruct the fiscal state, rep...