The ousted Awami League-led government is responsible for the current energy crisis and high inflation, said Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, adviser to the prime minister on finance and planning.

However, recent business-facilitation reforms from the government could boost investment and job creation

Unlike Gross Domestic Product growth or trade deficits, inflation is an intimate statistic

Prices still rising as wage growth lags behind cost of living

The Metro Rail Line-1 and -5 could end up costing more than double the original estimate because of the appreciation of the US dollar, inflation, and new taxes, found the government’s independent expert committee.

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For many middle-class families, life is built around some common characteristics.

Food inflation fell to 7.16 percent in July from 8.60 percent in June

Bangladesh has been experiencing a long episode of near-double-digit inflation since FY2023.

The CPD said it conducted the research to trace the supply chains of selected essential food commodities from retail markets back to producers

Bangladesh's overall inflation fell to 9.16 percent in June from 9.42 percent in May

With fuel prices increased in two rounds, the latest power tariff hike will add to the already high inflationary pressure, according to the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).

Money-printing, or monetary expansion, is often described in a way that makes it sound as if the government runs a printing press.

Energy inflation rose to 14.9 percent in the third quarter of FY26 from 14.4 percent in the previous quarter

Iran-US war is worsening our cost-of-living situation

Govt must fix fragile economy to weather shockwaves from Middle East.

Economics is not a museum of immortal models. It is a diagnostic discipline whose tools must match the condition of the economy under examination.

I write this in response to an article recently published by The Daily Star, titled The interim has failed to curb inflation and unemployment.

If the national election does take place in February, a new government will face dire quandaries for the economy.

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