International financial institutions (IFIs) have typically imposed wide-ranging policy reforms—called “conditionalities”—in exchange for country governments to secure access to financial assistance.

It is undeniable that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has, quite deftly, made the most of the fast-changing regional and global geopolitics, eventually emerging as a strong leader in South Asia.

The 2019 Summer Davos Forum, also known as the “World Economic Forum’s 13th Annual Meeting of the New Champions,” was held during July 1-3, 2019 in the coastal city of Dalian in northeast China’s Liaoning province.

I assume there is hardly anyone amongst us who has never felt cheated after buying a product or taking a service in exchange for money.

As the US-China trade war intensifies, pundits on both sides of the Pacific and elsewhere are wondering: who is the real winner?

The robust external sector performance has been a strong pillar on which Bangladesh’s impressive macroeconomic stability and growth of recent years was founded. The strong performance was underwritten by several factors.

Since 2015, Copenhagen Consensus and BRAC have collaborated on Bangladesh Priorities to create a bridge between policy and research. This is driven by the belief that, with limited resources and time, it is crucial that decisions are informed by what will do the most good for each taka spent.

Interest rate is a much-talked-about issue as far as savings and investment are concerned.

On April 4, 2019, the World Bank presented its latest economic forecast that Bangladesh's economy will grow at 7.3 percent in the

Bangladesh's banking sector faces a number of major challenges including rising nonperforming loans, credit concentrations, poor

When talking about financial inclusion, we often focus on closing the gender gap in financial account ownership as a means of empowering women.

With the evolving time, banks have made some progress with regard to their technology and are trying to provide faster and better services to customers. However, these services are comparatively beneficial to a certain percentage of people from the urban areas.

Riding on the long bull-run of 2017, investors in Bangladesh's stock exchange may have thought that perhaps the year 2018 will not be too bad either. After all if past record is any guide, election years typically mean more money being pumped into the market.

As we know by now, Bangladesh has attained all three criteria for graduation from the least developed country (LDC) group.

There is a lot of controversy these days surrounding the interest rates offered by Sanchayapatra of the Department of National Savings, which the government uses to finance its budget deficit.

The Eleventh Ministerial Conference (MC11) of the World Trade Organization will be held on December 10-13 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The meeting of this highest decision-making body of the WTO, which meets at least once every two years, is taking place at a critical moment of the free trade movement.

To cut or not to cut yield on national savings schemes (NSS)—that's one headache our finance minister is unable to get rid of. Will reducing rates on national savings schemes (NSS) have a strictly positive impact on our economy?

The upcoming budget for 2017-18 will cover the last full financial year before the general elections.

In the 2016 budget, the Bangladesh government made the highest ever allocation to the education and science sector.

Detractors can fret about instability and balance of payment difficulties, but make no mistake, such risks will remain contained if capital controls are relaxed gradually (following a medium-term plan) and political conditions remain, by and large, stable. In fact, some of the foundations that merit a more liberal foreign exchange regime are already in place.