per capita income
Opinion / The farce of expressing PCI in taka
This is nothing more than a poor trick that will eventually produce no real gain.
Per capita income rises in taka, but falls in US dollar value
It rises by Tk 29,367, but drops by $28
Bangladesh’s per capita income falls 1% to $2,763
It is the first fall in around eight years
Per capita income misses estimates
Bangladesh's per capita income stood at $2,793 in fiscal 2021-22 -- $31 lower than the initial estimate as the steep depreciation of the taka messed up the government’s numbers.
Can China Save Its Economic Miracle?
To improve medium-term growth, China must heed the lessons of its own history and focus on removing barriers to market entry and entrepreneurship. An economy’s growth rate comes from a combination of an increase in the average size of existing firms (intensive-margin growth) and an increase in the number of firms (extensive-margin growth). A study of the Chinese manufacturing sector that I co-authored with Xiaobo Zhang suggests that during the last few decades, extensive-margin growth accounted for about 70 percent of overall GDP expansion.
How did 2022 go for Bangladesh?
Bangladesh economy was all set at the beginning of 2022 to get its growth momentum back after recovering from the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic. But, the start of the Ukraine war in February slowed the country’s joy run significantly, making it an eventful year to remember. Let’s see how 2022 was for Bangladesh.
Whose per capita income rising?
The per capita income in Bangladesh rose by 9% year-on-year to US $2,824 in 2021-22 fiscal year, according to government data. People, however, are not seeing increase in their income, which can validate the data.
Counting what counts in development
To most people, “development” is best measured by the quantity of change – like gains in average income, life expectancy, or years spent in school. The Human Development Index (HDI), a composite measure of national progress that my office at the United Nations Development Programme oversees, combines all three statistics to rank countries relative to one another.
PM tells JS of 2041 goal
Bangladesh's per capita income would reach $12,000 and the size of its economy $2.5 trillion by 2041, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh goes one step forward
Bangladesh yesterday graduated from the low income status to lower middle income nation (LMIC), meeting the World Bank's requirements comfortably.
GDP swells, per capita income raises to $1,314
Bangladesh’s economy increases by 6.51 percent in the first current fiscal year, up from 6.1 percent last year.
A journey through light and shadow
BANGLADESH'S War of Independence in 1971 was the culmination of a prolonged movement for emancipation from economic, political and cultural subjugation by West Pakistan.
