Before the budget speech, there was an expectation, encouraged by the finance minister’s pre-budget remarks, that the government would offer a candid accounting of the fiscal inheritance: a banking sector carrying the world’s highest non-performing loan ratio, private-sector credit grow

We are going through an unprecedented emergency in the form of this pandemic. Everything is very uncertain and we do not know what will unfold next. When we are thinking about social safety nets, the relevance of conventional thinking needs to be re-examined in the context of Covid-19. Now the situ

Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) is hosting the BIDS Research Almanac 2017 on December 6-7, with the overall theme of narrowing the policy-research divide. There will be 21 papers for presentation by BIDS scholars covering a wide range of issues, reflecting both the depth and dive

Since 1990, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Bangladesh has been growing at a sustained 5.5-6.5 per cent per annum in real terms (or 3-4 per cent per annum in per capita terms). In 2009, our per-capita income was $559 and in 2016, it was $1466 supported by export revenues of $29 billion. The growth