Debapriya Bhattacharya
Debapriya Bhattacharya is Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).
Debapriya Bhattacharya is Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).
Interventions must involve fiscal policy to address our fundamental economic issues
Interventions must involve fiscal policy to address our fundamental economic issues
Recently, Bangladesh and the United States have celebrated half a century of their multifaceted partnership.
Emeritus publisher Mohiuddin Ahmed, the doyen of Bangladesh’s publishing industry, left us on June 22, 2021. As it is said, life ends but memories do not. When I recall my association with him, three distinctive episodes and numerous encounters flash across my mind.
The history of designing and delivering policy-driven economic stimulus packages is customarily traced back to the “New Deal” which was implemented in the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The most quoted line of modern English: “To be, or not to be, that is the question . . .”, as is known, is the opening stroke of a soliloquy from William Shakespeare’s celebrated drama The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
The much-anticipated national budget for fiscal year 2020-21 turns out to be a document trying to run on the momentum.
As success has many fathers, witty comments too have many misattributed sources. For example, the sentence that “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” was mistakenly attributed by author extraordinaire Mark Twain to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Interventions must involve fiscal policy to address our fundamental economic issues
Interventions must involve fiscal policy to address our fundamental economic issues
Recently, Bangladesh and the United States have celebrated half a century of their multifaceted partnership.
Emeritus publisher Mohiuddin Ahmed, the doyen of Bangladesh’s publishing industry, left us on June 22, 2021. As it is said, life ends but memories do not. When I recall my association with him, three distinctive episodes and numerous encounters flash across my mind.
The history of designing and delivering policy-driven economic stimulus packages is customarily traced back to the “New Deal” which was implemented in the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The most quoted line of modern English: “To be, or not to be, that is the question . . .”, as is known, is the opening stroke of a soliloquy from William Shakespeare’s celebrated drama The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
The much-anticipated national budget for fiscal year 2020-21 turns out to be a document trying to run on the momentum.
As success has many fathers, witty comments too have many misattributed sources. For example, the sentence that “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” was mistakenly attributed by author extraordinaire Mark Twain to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Bangladesh has attained considerable development progress in the past three decades.
The world today will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Twelve years back, the United Nations voted to declare the date as the “International Day of Non-Violence.” When people usually speak about this iconic persona, they often highlight him as