It’s time for serious stocktaking
Bangladesh Bank has opened a can of worms with its revision of the balance of payment data. There is no better way to put it.
4m ago
Is Yunus’s sentencing an ominous message for foreign investors?
Surely, the manner of Yunus’s sentencing does not add to the broader investor confidence in Bangladesh, and the data points already are not promising.
10m ago
Inflation hits 11-year high
If there is one indicator that epitomises the government’s mismanagement of the economy in recent times, it is inflation -- which raced to an 11-year high of 9.94 percent in May.
1y ago
A budget divorced from reality
Self-contradictory is what best describes Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s fifth budget, and the last of the Awami League-led government’s current term.
1y ago
Bracing for budget of self-preservation
In 2019, when AHM Mustafa Kamal took charge as the finance minister, the Bangladesh economy was taxing for take-off for its long-haul flight to the developed country club.
1y ago
Time to hit the reset button
This year was always supposed to be a celebration of Bangladesh’s economic progress with the opening of Padma bridge and Dhaka metro rail and 100 percent electrification.
1y ago
What is Bangladesh's current forex reserve?
Ever since Sri Lanka and Pakistan’s economic turmoil, Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves has become a part of public discourse. So much so that despite having an official figure from the central bank every week, people are speculating.
1y ago
July 5, 2024
It’s time for serious stocktaking
Bangladesh Bank has opened a can of worms with its revision of the balance of payment data. There is no better way to put it.
January 19, 2024
Inflation is the new normal
Suggest steps taken in the monetary policy
January 6, 2024
Is Yunus’s sentencing an ominous message for foreign investors?
Surely, the manner of Yunus’s sentencing does not add to the broader investor confidence in Bangladesh, and the data points already are not promising.
June 6, 2023
Inflation hits 11-year high
If there is one indicator that epitomises the government’s mismanagement of the economy in recent times, it is inflation -- which raced to an 11-year high of 9.94 percent in May.
June 2, 2023
A budget divorced from reality
Self-contradictory is what best describes Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s fifth budget, and the last of the Awami League-led government’s current term.
June 1, 2023
Bracing for budget of self-preservation
In 2019, when AHM Mustafa Kamal took charge as the finance minister, the Bangladesh economy was taxing for take-off for its long-haul flight to the developed country club.
December 31, 2022
Time to hit the reset button
This year was always supposed to be a celebration of Bangladesh’s economic progress with the opening of Padma bridge and Dhaka metro rail and 100 percent electrification.
November 17, 2022
What is Bangladesh's current forex reserve?
Ever since Sri Lanka and Pakistan’s economic turmoil, Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves has become a part of public discourse. So much so that despite having an official figure from the central bank every week, people are speculating.
July 20, 2022
Inflation at 9-year high
Inflation raced to a nine-year high of 7.56 percent in June, in a development that lays bare the extent of the cost of living crisis gripping the low-income and middle-class people in Bangladesh thanks to a war taking place some 5,800 kilometres away in Ukraine.
June 10, 2022
Not for respite, but for restraints
When reassurance was needed, he exuded panic.
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