This study attempts to investigate capital strength, credit risk, ownership structure, bank size, non-interest income, cost efficiency, off-balance sheet activities, liquidity as potential bank specific determinants as well as growth in gross domestic products, inflation as potential macroeconomic determinants of bank profitability by taking 25 commercial banks from Bangladesh for a period ranges from 2006 to 2013. Three different measures of profitability namely return on assets (ROA), net interest margin over total assets (NIM) and return on equity (ROE) are used in the study. The empirical findings suggest that capital strength (both regulatory capital and equity capital) and loan intensity has positive and significant impact on profitability. Results also show that cost efficiency and off-balance sheet activities have negative and significant impact on bank profitability. The impact of other variables is not uniform in respect of different measures of profitability. Non-interest income, credit risk and GGDP are found as important determinant for NIM. Size has a positive and significant impact on ROA. Finally inflation has a negative and significant impact on ROA and ROE.

Foreign Direct Investment plays a crucial role in the economy of developing countries like Bangladesh through accelerating Gross Domestic Product (GDP), export and domestic investment followed by overall economic growth. The present scenario of FDI in Bangladesh in not still satisfactory enough but given the availability of abundant resources, skilled and cheap labor forces, a stable political atmosphere, effective monetary and fiscal policy, improvement of infrastructure and long term strategic planning to stimulate FDI might be able to make the condition favorable to attract foreign investment in Bangladesh. South Asian countries need to improve their domestic investment, exports and infrastructure facilities, along with more foreign investment, to achieve higher growth. This report analysis of FDI flows to south Asian countries reveals that there has been an increasing trend of FDI into South Asian countries. Findings analysis suggest that FDI has a positive impact on export growth through its positive spillovers for South Asian countries FDI in South Asia is mostly concentrated in manufacturing and services. Despite some policies reforms, Bangladesh could not attract handsome flow of FDI as yet. Furthermore, the lion's share of FDI is being repatriated. The main focus of this paper is to reveal how attractive the position of Bangladesh in south Asian countries. We find from the report that Bangladesh hold the second position in FDI but not in attractive position. The paper also analyses the problems and prospects of FDI in Bangladesh. The study also provides some remedies to solve the problems.

International migration is considered to be an important livelihood strategy for the people of Bangladesh. This paper investigates natures and trends of migration and remittance flows of Bangladesh in the last years considering FY 2001-2002 to FY 2012-2013. This is an exploratory type of research based on secondary data generated from various reports of government and non-government organizations and of various publication of home and abroad. It is found that from FY2001-2002 to FY 2007-08 both the migration and remittance flows show an increasing trend but after this period it is showed a decreasing trend. The current research paper has identified various reasons behind this. Study also identifies that about 70 percent of total exports are in different countries of Middle East and most of the remittance also come from Middle East. It is also observed that t due to different reason, the opportunity of manpower export to Middle East region is reducing. Therefore, for increasing the reserve as well as boosting up economic development through remittance flow, government of Bangladesh should come forward to search new scopes of manpower export.

Twenty one genera of zooplankton were studied based on one year investigation of which 3 genera belonged to Cladocera (19.22%), 5 to Copepoda (36.13%) 12 to Rotifera (44.59%) and 1 to Ostracoda (0.06%).