Where are we heading?
By bringing down a despotic leviathan, the anti-discrimination student movement has earned the moral authority to be spokespersons for the whole nation
6d ago
Rebooting the economy
The crackdown on the nonviolent uprise of the students and the subsequent one thing leading to another chain of events locked down the economy, only figuratively reminiscent of the pandemic in 2020
3w ago
Not much beyond lip service
In their Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the first half of FY25, Bangladesh Bank (BB) has stuck to the policy stance already in place.
1m ago
Not much beyond lip service
Let’s begin with the central question to gauge what more this MPS could have done to increase the potency of monetary policy in restoring macro-financial stability.
1m ago
Export data correction was long overdue
Bangladesh Bank’s latest data on the balance of payments has remarkably altered the narrative on the drivers of external stress without changing the signal on the overall stress.
1m ago
Making sense of revisions in balance of payments
Bangladesh Bank's latest data on the balance of payments has remarkably altered the narrative on the drivers of external stress without changing the signal on the overall stress. The bottom line on persistent external imbalance remains pretty much the same but the composition is palpably different
1m ago
A post-election defining moment
The economy has been in a rough patch since 2022 like never before in the past decade and a half
2m ago
Fifty years of learning from rises and slips in the Bangladesh economy
We are hubristically living through our ecological implosion.
4m ago
August 17, 2024
Where are we heading?
By bringing down a despotic leviathan, the anti-discrimination student movement has earned the moral authority to be spokespersons for the whole nation
July 31, 2024
Rebooting the economy
The crackdown on the nonviolent uprise of the students and the subsequent one thing leading to another chain of events locked down the economy, only figuratively reminiscent of the pandemic in 2020
July 19, 2024
Not much beyond lip service
In their Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the first half of FY25, Bangladesh Bank (BB) has stuck to the policy stance already in place.
July 18, 2024
Not much beyond lip service
Let’s begin with the central question to gauge what more this MPS could have done to increase the potency of monetary policy in restoring macro-financial stability.
July 7, 2024
Export data correction was long overdue
Bangladesh Bank’s latest data on the balance of payments has remarkably altered the narrative on the drivers of external stress without changing the signal on the overall stress.
July 5, 2024
Making sense of revisions in balance of payments
Bangladesh Bank's latest data on the balance of payments has remarkably altered the narrative on the drivers of external stress without changing the signal on the overall stress. The bottom line on persistent external imbalance remains pretty much the same but the composition is palpably different
June 5, 2024
A post-election defining moment
The economy has been in a rough patch since 2022 like never before in the past decade and a half
April 23, 2024
Fifty years of learning from rises and slips in the Bangladesh economy
We are hubristically living through our ecological implosion.
February 19, 2024
Inflation’s obduracy reflects the inadequacies of the policy response
The spike in inflation from 9.41 percent in December to 9.86 percent in January was driven entirely by the rise in non-food inflation.
January 30, 2024
Labour market in a low gear
Bangladesh has delivered decent economic growth relative to the rest of the globe braving the coronavirus pandemic, supply chain disruptions, successive wars and macroeconomic stress. However, labour market recovery since the pandemic has been anemic. There are lingering concerns about growth lacking the shine of good jobs.
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