If you are ready to launder ill-gotten wealth, make sure it is in the thousands of crores – a few hundred crores is embarrassingly measly in this game of big bucks.

To improve medium-term growth, China must heed the lessons of its own history and focus on removing barriers to market entry and entrepreneurship. An economy’s growth rate comes from a combination of an increase in the average size of existing firms (intensive-margin growth) and an increase in the number of firms (extensive-margin growth). A study of the Chinese manufacturing sector that I co-authored with Xiaobo Zhang suggests that during the last few decades, extensive-margin growth accounted for about 70 percent of overall GDP expansion.

Amit Chaudhuri is one of our most gifted writers, a Bengali novelist and musician with an accomplished repertoire.

Human rights violations of Indigenous peoples, especially land-grabbing, continued unabated

To avoid confrontation, both AL and BNP must come to a consensus.

The most moving part about these poetry sessions is the conversations.

After this new ban, many NGOs that were working for the development of Afghanistan have stopped their operations, demanding the withdrawal of the irrational bans.

The Metro Rail project has to be used as a guideline for town-planning.

A consensus among political parties is essential for holding a good election.

2023 is going to be much more challenging in terms of the actual impacts of climate change in Bangladesh and around the world

The reality is that using only the exchange rates without interest rate action will deepen the crisis.

Even if you feel like you're living your best life when it's late at night, being a night owl has some drawbacks. Most night owls still have to wake up early in the morning because of their job schedules or family responsibilities, which means that many of them don't get enough sleep. Disrupting one’s sleep pattern may have unnoticed negative effects on their overall health, in addition to having visible effects on how energetic they are during the day.

The rise in the prices of goods has led to many people suffering from a silent famine.

For political figures like Trump and Putin, courage is redefined as a willingness to break the state’s laws if the state’s own interests – or their own – demand it. The implication is that civilisation endures only if there are brave patriots who will do the dirty work. This is a decidedly right-wing form of “heroism.” It is easy to act nobly on behalf of one’s country – short of sacrificing one’s life for it – but only the strong of heart can bring themselves to commit crimes for it.

For a developing country, geopolitics is almost always a losing game.

Poverty rates in recent years have demonstrated an impressive steady improvement in Bangladesh.

A selfless servant of the public, Ambassador Sabihuddin Ahmed passed away on October 31, 2022.

The government has a huge task ahead in terms of making its social security programmes effective.

Looking back at 2022, experts on the South Asian political and economic landscape would highlight the ongoing economic crisis for understandable reasons.

It is hard to ignore the growing consensus among economists that the combination of inflation and interest rate hikes alongside tempered Chinese demand and US economic uncertainty could be the perfect storm for a global recession.