Harunur Rashid, a retired government employee, was taken aback by the steep price rise of okra at the capital’s Karwan Bazar yesterday.

Decry customers as govt fails to curb rising cost of essentials

A persistently higher inflation for more than a year has hit the low-income, the poor and the fixed-income people in Bangladesh hard, significantly eroding their purchasing power.  

Although higher consumer prices have persisted in the first few months of the current fiscal year, inflation in Bangladesh is going to cool in the later part of 2023-24 thanks to one external and two domestic factors, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecast yesterday.

The broiler chicken has seen an increase in price at the farmer level over the past one week while there is also a shortage in market against the demand

Abdul Wahab, a security guard at an ATM booth of a private bank in the capital, works 16 hours a day.

Bangladesh made gains in food production and ensured the availability of rice in recent years. But surging inflation, erratic weather, and the Russia-Ukraine war affected the availability of cereals and reduced low-income people’s access to food this year.