Abdullah Shibli

Economic times in the US are not bad in comparison with the uncertainty and volatility that has gripped the rest of the world following Brexit...

When economists hand over their findings from a cost-benifit analysis to politicians, it is important to be upfront about the “ifs and buts” of the analysis, and to caution the user of the dangers of making sweeping statements about the superiority of alternative technologies or policy options.

The United Kingdom is now in the midst of a Shakespearean dilemma, “to stay or not to stay”. Voters will decide in a referendum on June 23...

He US presidential election campaign is a fascinating case study on how politics overwhelms better judgment. The case in

If we stay attuned to the experts and practitioners working in the financial and banking sectors worldwide, new threats and methods used by the crooks can be neutralised before any damage is done to our own emerging system.

More than three months have passed since the Bangladesh Bank (BB) heist, and in the interim much water has flown down the Padma, Meghna,

I hear from union leaders, labour law advocates and “garments owners”. Unfortunately, I heard different versions of what's going on in the field.

Bangladesh Government Proposes a Tk. 15 Carbon Tax”. This headline would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. However, it

What is happening in the world today? An apt manner to describe the current economic situation and future prospects is to paraphrase

Labour practices and the right to organise by workers have recently received a lot of attention in Western media, triggered by terrible industry accidents in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Sarah has not seen Naeema since then. She had heard from her other sons that Naeema is teaching in a school and staying with her mother.

The call to prayer wakes Sarah up every morning. There are at least three mosques surrounding her apartment and each of them take

The news that foreign hackers attempted to off $101 million from Bangladesh Bank's account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York need not be viewed as a catastrophic failure...

BANGLADESH is now poised at a historically opportune moment to initiate a “green tax” on carbon-emitting fuels. International oil

Is the world economy coming to a catastrophic, grinding crash? Would we see a global meltdown with GDP in a tailspin...

It was on a Monday morning that I was running late for work. To compound my problems, traffic was heavier than usual and only later,

While lower fuel cost may keep the cost of driving low and the opportunity cost of conservation high, the setback is predicted to be temporary.

Many years ago, in 1992, after Amartya Sen had just moved to Cambridge, USA, to take up his residence at Harvard University, I met

Bangladesh is in the frontlines of mounting costs of climate change. With the United Nations Summit on Climate Change scheduled to

The number one and number two global economic powers, USA and China respectively, appear to be venting their frustrations with each