Sanem carried out a survey among 9,000 households countrywide in Oct-Nov of 2023

The timing of the visit, amidst labour unrest and pre-election volatility, is particularly significant.

The economist says at Sanem event

The immediate outlook for the new year is not as bad as had been predicted before. The Chinese economy is opening up, the industrialised West is adjusting and realigning their economies to the new realities, and a global economic recession does no longer seems inevitable.

Bangladesh would hardly have needed to go for a sudden hike in fuel prices last year had the government waived value added tax (VAT) on petroleum, Eminent Economist Wahiduddin Mahmud said today.

Middle class families, especially lower middle-income groups, are suffering for persistent high inflation, said South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (Sanem) today.

Bangladesh should work on the young population now for future development as the country has only 15 years left to reap the benefits of the demographic dividend, an economist said today.

The country is facing the biggest macroeconomic challenge in the last one decade, said Selim Raihan, executive director of the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (Sanem).

South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM), a non-profit research organisation, terms the recent economic growth of Bangladesh as “puzzling”, saying that the GDP growth mismatched with the data and various indicators of the economy.