Biru Paksha Paul

While people in developed nations pay little attention to their annual budgets, it turns out to be the most influential document for

The difference also came through the indomitable character of its people. Given the lowest investment in research, Bangladeshis can make the highest amount of innovations as seen in agriculture and services.

The latest monetary policy, which the central bank governor had announced recently, has passed through the market with a fair amount of approval...

The year 2016 has started with a note of optimism in the frontiers of both political understanding and investment prospects. Unlike

PROJECTING an economic outlook in early January is a New Year tradition. While political forecasts are not too divergent, economists

Over the last one year, since December 2014, Bangladesh's 12-month average inflation fell by 11 percent and came down to 6.2 percent in November 2015. However, India's inflation fell by 28 percent and came down to 4.8 percent, Pakistan's inflation dropped by 62 percent to reach below 3 percent.

Economics can turn into an inspirational story if the economist deals the subject with passion and insight. That is what Professor

The rate of return in Bangladesh is still high enough to attract new businesses. The businesses that desperately seek to install plants in foreign lands did not exhaust domestic possibilities by scanning our potential.

The recent five-day banking mela (fair), held at the Bangla Academy premises, was the first of its kind in Bangladesh's history.

If we can further liberalise our trade by reducing tariffs and non-tariff barriers and by removing age-old regulations, our growth will exceed even 7 percent.

Allocating more funds for training, research, technology, travel, and after-hour education will not only add more human values to the banking profession, but also make our banking sector more productive in the long-run.

Sanchayapatra – a supposed welfare instrument – is actually a Trojan horse that threatens the future of our development budget, and thus reduces growth potentials for the nation. The higher the sale of NSCs, the higher the future interest liability which will definitely eat up a bigger pie of our budget, reducing the share of the Annual Development Programme (ADP).

Given that Bangladesh has the lowest debt-GDP ratio in the region (29 percent), when compared to Sri Lanka (73 percent), Pakistan (67 percent) and India (65 percent), we can easily afford investing another $10 to 20 billion in our hugely inadequate infrastructure.

The exchange rate which Bangladesh Bank determines now has been largely market-based since May 2003, although the central bank irons out fluctuations to maintain stability in the exchange rate so that foreign investors feel confident while investing in Bangladesh.

Whenever I used to pass through John F Kennedy Airport, the massive advertisement of 'Incredible India' would draw my attention.

The reason many people do not like a market economy lies in the acid test of harsh competition. To them, the market economy is a story of losing jobs by being made redundant in the workplace.

We need to develop stricter rules and punish the wrongdoers to protect our shareholders, thereby developing a healthy capital market.

Within 50 years since its independence, Singapore set a bar which many countries cannot achieve in a hundred years. Inheriting a tiny piece of land and a poor community of inhabitants, the leadership under Lee Kuan Yew, understood that the nation would need to make the best use of its geographic advantage.

While any garbage is usually dissolved in the soil, nature fails to do so for plastic products, which remain indestructible for decades or even centuries. Burning plastic products is not a good solution either.

When I joined the first private bank of Bangladesh some 27 years ago, the definition of a good banker remained as before: a star performer who returns home at night walking with an unsteady gait almost like a drunkard. Unfortunately, the definition still applies.