Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)– Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,…

BCIM Forum The BCIM (Bangladesh–China–India–Myanmar)Forum for Regional Economic Cooperation, earlier known as the ‘Kunming Initiative’, was founded in 1999 with the objective of promoting trade and economic development in the sub-region stretching from south…

Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is an international organization of seven nations of South Asia and South East Asia of Bay of Bengal Region-…

BRICS is a dialogue and cooperation platform of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). Originally the first four were grouped as “BRIC” (or…

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an economic and geopolitical organization of eight countries that are primarily located in South Asia or the Indian subcontinent. SAARC was…

The run-up to the 2019 general elections the ECI faces accusations of inadequate responses to MCC violations and former bureaucrats have written to the President accusing the ECI of a…

Modeled on the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank was conceived in the early 1960s as a financial institution that would be Asian in character and to promote social and…

The World Bank was created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, along with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and provides loans to countries for capital programs.  The International Bank for…

IMF was conceived at a UN conference in Bretton Woods, in July 1944. That’s why IMF and World Bank are known as Bretton Woods Twins or Institutions. IMF credit has…

Protest Against Rowlatt Act: The act officially known as the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, 1919 was passed in 1919 by the Imperial Legislative Council. It had authorized the British…