The financial sector of Bangladesh experienced quite a bit of turbulence in recent times and in fact, is not out of the woods yet. In particular, there has been significant erosion of public confidence towards the country's banking sector. The classification of the commercial banks in different col

Economic management often involves working out appropriate responses to exogenous events. The risk and uncertainty associated with such exogeneity create deviations from the ideal scenario that an economy may strive to achieve. Troubleshooting and contingency responses are, therefore, essential ele

In a developing country like Bangladesh, the overall trade balance (which shows the gap between imports and exports of goods and services), is usually negative as the import needs of such countries often exceed their export capabilities. In the national income accounting framework, the trade balanc

The audited accounts of different commercial banks for 2019 started coming out in the newspapers in recent weeks. Usually, these are published earlier in the year during April-May. Dislocations related to Covid-19 pandemic may have caused this inadvertent delay. The year 2019 marked a transitional

Rising public expenditure has been the key driver of growth in Bangladesh economy in recent years. Nearly 18 per cent growth in the size of the budget in FY20 over the revised budget of FY19 is very much in line with this trend. The main challenges for the new Finance Minister in this regard are:

The financial sector of Bangladesh and the banking sector, in particular, did not perform well during 2018. Dividends declared in 2018 by many publicly listed banks were significantly lower than those declared in 2017. Some publicly listed banks even did not declare any dividend. A similar picture

One of the points made by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in their review of the economy presented on April 17, according to newspaper reports, is that private investment/GDP (gross domestic product) ratio remained almost unchanged at 23.3 per cent during the current year implying a 7.65 per c