In countries like Bangladesh, two critical ingredients are important in the design of monetary policy: first, a reasonable approximation of the overall economy covering real, financial, external and other sectors characterising technology, market structure and behaviour of different actors (e.g. ho

Over the last few years, especially since the adoption of the sustainable development and 'leaving no one behind' agenda in 2015, equality and inclusion have emerged as the major themes in global development. The need for 'inclusive development' has been articulated forcefully in different forums a

Bangladesh's development story over the past fifty years is full of development surprises and extraordinary resilience of the people in the face of frequent natural disasters and manmade calamities. The country's economic transformation has largely been driven by social changes, initiated by women

As the Covid-19 pandemic ravages global production and trade linkages, the policy makers are increasingly exploring the possibilities of shifting more towards regional value chains (RVCs) from global value chains (GVCs) as pathways to sustaining export growth. Bangladesh's RMG and apparel sector is

Throughout the world, Covid-19 has emerged as more than a health problem; it has also created devastating social, economic and other crises that are leaving deep scars in society and the economy. In particular, the world of work has been impacted severely by the imposition of lockdown measures. The

Market-oriented structural reforms in Bangladesh--which begun in the late 1980s and intensified since the 1990s--have put the economy on a higher growth path with annual GDP (gross domestic product) growth rate crossing 8.0 per cent in recent years.  But concerns exist relating to the outcome

The world is reaching a tipping point, where the global middle class will expand dramatically over the next several years. The global middle class, numbering 3.2 billion people in 2016, is likely to grow at 170 million per year in the coming years; and nearly 88 per cent of the next billion people

No one can deny the fact that something big is happening in the world of finance in Bangladesh. Mobile financial services (MFS) have been changing the relationship between the banks and the consumers. In Bangladesh, as in many other developing countries, dramatic growth in MFS has emerged as the mo