daily essentials price hike

Price hike of essentials: Poor, middle class in a tight corner

Harunur Rashid, a retired government employee, was taken aback by the steep price rise of okra at the capital’s Karwan Bazar yesterday.

‘Why fix prices if you can’t enforce it’

Decry customers as govt fails to curb rising cost of essentials

Will price controls work to tame inflation?

A persistently higher inflation for more than a year has hit the low-income, the poor and the fixed-income people in Bangladesh hard, significantly eroding their purchasing power.  

Inflation to cool in later part of FY24

Although higher consumer prices have persisted in the first few months of the current fiscal year, inflation in Bangladesh is going to cool in the later part of 2023-24 thanks to one external and two domestic factors, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecast yesterday.

Low-Income People: Broiler chicken going off menu

The broiler chicken has seen an increase in price at the farmer level over the past one week while there is also a shortage in market against the demand

Price hike of essentials: the poor have their back against the wall

Abdul Wahab, a security guard at an ATM booth of a private bank in the capital, works 16 hours a day.

Inflation, war eating away food gains

Bangladesh made gains in food production and ensured the availability of rice in recent years. But surging inflation, erratic weather, and the Russia-Ukraine war affected the availability of cereals and reduced low-income people’s access to food this year.

October 12, 2024
October 12, 2024

Price hike of essentials: Poor, middle class in a tight corner

Harunur Rashid, a retired government employee, was taken aback by the steep price rise of okra at the capital’s Karwan Bazar yesterday.

June 16, 2024
June 16, 2024

‘Why fix prices if you can’t enforce it’

Decry customers as govt fails to curb rising cost of essentials

September 21, 2023
September 21, 2023

Will price controls work to tame inflation?

A persistently higher inflation for more than a year has hit the low-income, the poor and the fixed-income people in Bangladesh hard, significantly eroding their purchasing power.  

September 21, 2023
September 21, 2023

Inflation to cool in later part of FY24

Although higher consumer prices have persisted in the first few months of the current fiscal year, inflation in Bangladesh is going to cool in the later part of 2023-24 thanks to one external and two domestic factors, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecast yesterday.

February 18, 2023
February 18, 2023

Low-Income People: Broiler chicken going off menu

The broiler chicken has seen an increase in price at the farmer level over the past one week while there is also a shortage in market against the demand

February 5, 2023
February 5, 2023

Price hike of essentials: the poor have their back against the wall

Abdul Wahab, a security guard at an ATM booth of a private bank in the capital, works 16 hours a day.

October 16, 2022
October 16, 2022

Inflation, war eating away food gains

Bangladesh made gains in food production and ensured the availability of rice in recent years. But surging inflation, erratic weather, and the Russia-Ukraine war affected the availability of cereals and reduced low-income people’s access to food this year.