In Bangladesh, micro and small enterprises (MSEs) and cottage enterprises (CEs) which are mostly managed by own-account workers together provide a vast majority of employment for the country's enterprise sector. Latest available statistics of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) show that CEs

According to the latest (October 2021) forecast by the IMF, Bangladesh's GDP at current prices is likely to rise to $565 billion in 2026 from $355 billion in 2021 (59 per cent increase) while, over the same period, India's GDP is expected to increase from $2,946 billion to $4,393 billion (49 per ce

Unexpected challenges to the prospects of growth and the economy are quite common in Bangladesh; and the country is widely known as a land of natural and manmade disasters. At present, the coronavirus disease (Covid-19)--declared as a global pandemic in January 2020 by the WHO--has strained the hum

Bangladesh presents a very interesting case study on public sector intervention in the rice sector. Over time, different strategies that the government has adopted to strike a delicate balance between its thrust  to  make  agriculture dynamic and the recognition of rice as a cultural

Budget 2019/20 will be the first budget of the new government; and for the Finance Minister as well. As such, the budget is likely to attract a wide attention from the experts as well as the general public. No doubt, the budget will deliver a strong message for the government's long-term vision and

Domestic revenue mobilisation (DRM) has gained increasing prominence in recent policy discourse in Bangladesh due to several factors, including potential benefits of taxation for development and equity, gaining freedom from long-term dependence on foreign assistance and shifting aid paradigm, fisca

Job creation is an immense challenge for Bangladesh. The Labour Force Survey 2016-17 shows an unemployment rate of 4.2 per cent (3.1 per cent for males and 6.7 per cent for females), and many of these unemployed are young people. Youth (aged 15-24) unemployment rate is staggeringly high at 12.3 per

Bangladesh has an impressive development record over the past decades. It has substantially reduced the number of people in poverty; and gained impressive improvements in primary school enrollment, gender parity in primary- and secondary-level education, immunisation coverage, incidence of communic