Selim Raihan
Dr Selim Raihan is professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and executive director, South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (Sanem). Email: selim.raihan@econdu.ac.bd
Dr Selim Raihan is professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and executive director, South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (Sanem). Email: selim.raihan@econdu.ac.bd
Despite moderate performance in several SDGs, Bangladesh faces major challenges in actually achieving them.
To overcome the economic crisis, no doubt, the country needs strong economic leadership, backed by strong political will.
Bangladesh is now in the depths of both economic and political crises.
There are some big concerns we must address given the possibility of the political tension permeating our economic domain.
The soaring food prices, coupled with falling real income, pose a serious challenge for the poor in terms of accessing adequate and nutritious food.
Inflation in Bangladesh has reached its highest level in a decade and has been a persistent problem for more than 18 months, starting from early last year.
Bangladesh’s progress towards switching to renewable energy has remained slow and uncertain.
Bangladesh has strong economic aspirations to become part of a forum like BRICS.
Despite moderate performance in several SDGs, Bangladesh faces major challenges in actually achieving them.
To overcome the economic crisis, no doubt, the country needs strong economic leadership, backed by strong political will.
Bangladesh is now in the depths of both economic and political crises.
There are some big concerns we must address given the possibility of the political tension permeating our economic domain.
The soaring food prices, coupled with falling real income, pose a serious challenge for the poor in terms of accessing adequate and nutritious food.
Inflation in Bangladesh has reached its highest level in a decade and has been a persistent problem for more than 18 months, starting from early last year.
Bangladesh’s progress towards switching to renewable energy has remained slow and uncertain.
Bangladesh has strong economic aspirations to become part of a forum like BRICS.
The key question, however, remains: to what extent have our current economic challenges been addressed by the new budget? It hasn't done proper justice to answer this question.
We should have focused on addressing the macro-fundamentals, which would create a launching pad for the coming year’s fiscal flow.