Birupaksha Paul

The recent policy changes have been so enormous that they have already made the old monetary policy largely defunct.

The approach to address unemployment has remained faulty, superficial, bureaucratic, and substandard.

The rate of reserve depletion is alarming, and the IMF loan will not be enough to fend off the haemorrhage.

What Bangladeshi economists have been saying for a long time is pretty much what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has told our central bank and the government.

The central bank’s deviation from the policy commitment is the main reason why hundi-makers mushroomed at home and abroad.

Bangladesh, which has been going through financial difficulties for several months now, can finally see a little light at the end of the tunnel.

The new governor of Bangladesh Bank (BB) has heralded robust messages to the country’s banking and financial industry.

One dollar now costs almost Tk 100. The taka has been losing its value against the US dollar for months, with no signs of it changing.

The budget for FY2022-23 is filled with rhetoric. But its credibility is poor because of its contradictions between the priorities and the actual allocations for education, agriculture, health, and the vulnerable population.

The world has entered another era of high inflation, and no country can escape from the heat wave of rising prices.

There is nothing to be panicked about if taka slides further against the dollar.

The US economy has begun to display a bizarre combination of conflicting signals, making global recovery largely unpredictable.

In the post-independence period, Bangladesh’s number one problem was population growth.