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Biru Paksha Paul

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The writer is visiting fellow at Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and guest faculty at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Dhaka University.

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The economics behind Trump’s tariff war

Trump’s tariff war is a deliberate way to put a lid on China' export expansion.
14 July 2025, 02:00 AM
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The corona-clenched economy: Changes and policies

Alan Greenspan, who led the US Federal Reserve for two decades, was summoned in congress and testified that the financial crisis of 2008-2009 was an economic tsunami which could happen once in a century.
18 April 2020, 18:00 PM
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Time to reform the finance ministry for robust growth

It is hard to achieve a growth of around 8 percent, and it will be even harder to maintain this trend unless we reform our ministry of finance (MOF) to steer the economy in the right direction. An MOF is usually the chief conductor of the orchestra of a country’s
9 September 2019, 18:00 PM
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Budget FY2019-20: New directions, old roads

This is the first time we noticed a prominent leader of the opposition using an appropriate word, “ambitious”, to describe the budget, instead of branding it as “anti-people.” This is a good sign because the first budget for a new finance minister should be forward-looking.
15 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Saving our ailing banking sector

Saving our ailing banking sector

Bangladesh's banking sector faces a number of major challenges including rising nonperforming loans, credit concentrations, poor
26 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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The vicious impact of bureaucracy in business

When we were students, we hated red tapism—we spoke and wrote against it and vowed to change it in the future. But after being recruited into government service, we forgot our old promise, or dared not to talk about it.
16 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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A note on re-fixing interest rates on Sanchayapatra

Finally, the government has decided to re-fix interest rates on National Saving Certificates (NSCs) or Sanchayapatra. Hopefully, it will
4 August 2018, 18:00 PM
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Quota issue from an economic perspective

Truth shall prevail against lies and falsehood. And economic truths are often ruthless.
28 July 2018, 18:00 PM
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Is six percent growth a trap for Bangladesh?

Bangladesh's recent stable growth should not be branded as a low middle-income growth trap. Since independence, Bangladesh has consistently increased its average growth rate over every decade with a corresponding decrease in growth volatility.
10 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Is this monetary policy growth supportive?

Bangladesh Bank recently announced its monetary policy for the fiscal year 2016. As always, the announcement has sparked a number of criticisms.
4 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Expectations from new monetary policy

The monetary policy for the fiscal year 2016 is coming soon. Its arrival in the wake of the recently announced budget will build the bridge between the Ministry of Finance and Bangladesh Bank, heralding coordination between fiscal and monetary policies.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

When is Bangladesh's next graduation?

Bangladesh's recent graduation to the lower middle income group has surprisingly received cynical comments from some corners.
14 July 2015, 18:00 PM

A new era of central banking

Central banks should also be interested in the supply side investments that give the long run growth potential to a nation. Thus it is more important to give credit to a solar plant than a fashionable clothing store.
6 July 2015, 18:00 PM

The simple math

A national budget is different from a family budget, in that, the government fixes its expenditure first and then goes for hunting the sources of income, whereas a family gets its income and then determines the items of expenses.
29 June 2015, 18:00 PM
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A star model of monetary policy: how it works in developing economies

Monetary policy in developing economies mainly includes five major macro variables: output growth, inflation, interest rate,
16 February 2015, 18:33 PM
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