Professor Wahiduddin Mahmud

Statistics must serve people, not politics: Wahiduddin Mahmud

When statistics are released with bias, it constitutes political abuse, says the adviser at an event on World Statistics Day

'Amartya Sen puts emphasis on democracy along with economic dev'

Fellow economists say at a public lecture organised by the BIDS

‘Aspiration without values can cause rent-seeking, hooliganism’

Aspiration can lead people to development, but this can also encourage them to go for rent-seeking and hooliganism if the aspiration is not associated with values, eminent economist Professor Wahiduddin Mahmud said today.