Salehuddin Ahmed

In 1960, China’s GDP per capita was USD 89.52. Until about the mid-1990s, China was a low-income country, with a per capita income of USD 317 in 1990.

The developing countries of the world started taking various activities for economic development in the sixties. After five decades, different countries have reached different stages of development.

The latest monetary policy was declared yesterday, while the previous one was in July 2020. In my immediate reaction I want to question why monetary policies should come about on a yearly basis.

Gone are the days of disagreement over aggregate demand management policy based on Keynesian approach or a fixed target on quantity of money supply following the “monetarist approach”.

It was around 7 pm in Dallas, Texas on April 27 (6 am on April 28 in Dhaka), when I received a phone call from a colleague at BRAC University.

The title of this article should not mislead you; the title is just to provoke you to think seriously and act boldly.

It was in March 1979 when I met Sir Fazle Hasan Abed for the first time. He called me for a job interview. I met him at his modest office of the then Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) on Circular Road, Moghbazar.

Learning languages can open up the world for you. The world is going through dynamic changes, which are occurring at a fast rate.

The recently published book Bangladesh’s Road to Long-term Economic Prosperity, written by Professor MG Quibria, is a precise, concise and fairly down-to-earth presentation of the story of Bangladesh’s development from its birth to the present.

The role of the central bank is quite significant in regulating the banks and financial institutions in a country. It's closely linked with

Faruq Ahmed Choudhury was very close to my heart. Though he was a 'big' man in terms of his stature, he communicated with us like

China, one of the four oldest civilisations in the world, has a written history of more than 4,000 years and boasts rich cultural relics and historical sites. It is the inventor of compass, paper-making, gunpowder and printing.

Humayun Kabir is no more with us. It's hard to believe this fact. He left us on July 2, 2015.