Zaidi Sattar

Bangladesh needs effective economic diplomacy to navigate global challenges post-LDC graduation.

Despite the youth-driven upheaval, the key drivers of the economy remain very much intact and ready to take the economy to new heights.

It is important to recognise that trade has been the handmaiden of Bangladesh’s development.

The forthcoming FY2024-25 national budget must show that we mean business.

Inflation, which is the equivalent of a regressive tax on the poor, accentuates income inequality to make the situation worse.

That legacy has produced a bevy of outstanding economists over the past three decades. He lived a full life, steering through extraordinary times while leaving a chequered professional career behind. Yet, he once professed he was only an economist by accident.

Bangladesh’s economy buckled, but it did not break. However, challenges remain.

Akbar Ali Khan is no more. His passing leaves a deep chasm in the intellectual firmament of Bangladesh.

The country celebrated the golden jubilee of independence this year, and there is indeed much to celebrate. Analysts of all shades of opinion have hailed the quality of social and economic progress achieved by the country which was, at inception,

There is a new kid on the bloc rising in the shadows of the RMG behemoth. We can call it the next big thing after readymade garments in Bangladesh.

The global trade order was unquestionably under strain well before the Covid-19 crisis struck the world economy.

I am not referring to human infants, who need society’s affection and complete care. The focus here is on “infant industries”, a jargon in trade economics for new firms and industries in the international marketplace.

The year 2020 will be recorded in history as the year when the world population lived dangerously—under the onslaught of an unknown killer virus that did not discriminate between rich or poor, developed or developing countries.

Export diversification must be a formidable challenge: we have been talking about it for over two decades without nearing a solution,

Protection to domestic industries has been an integral part of Bangladesh's economic policy since independence. This was one policy we inherited from Pakistan times without much thinking. In the 1970s there emerged an alternative path to industrialisation and growth – export-oriented industrialisation.

Annual budgets are widely reported and its components hotly debated, as it usually provides insights on the direction of overall public policy that impinges on a broad spectrum of our lives and livelihoods.