Wahiduddin Mahmud

A memoir that helps understand development

Perhaps the most important contribution of the book lies in providing intimate insights into how NGOs work in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Economy: What got you here won’t get you there

Over the years, Bangladesh has achieved considerable economic progress despite many odds. The economy, however, has now reached a point where continued progress will require course corrections, as alluded by the title of this write up, which is also the subtitle of a bestselling business book.

Perils of global capitalism: What’s next?

In my recently published book, “Markets, Morals and Development” (Routledge, UK), I discussed the discontent with the contemporary global economic order that is prey to the excesses of market supremacy and beholden to private corporate interest.

Coming out of LDC, a welcome move from all sides

Bangladesh’s graduation from the list of least-developed countries (LDCs) is long overdue but the good news is that the country will graduate having met all three criteria.

Assessing economic development: An unconventional approach

Economic development can be viewed from different perspectives, but the overriding theme is one of improving human well-being.

Why do people resist Covid-19 hygiene?

Bangladesh followed other countries in its effort to contain the Covid-19 pandemic with the initial countrywide lockdown and measures for revamping the health infrastructure.

Blindsided by Covid-19

There is hardly any precedence of preparing a national budget under such extraordinary hard times and with so much uncertainties and dilemmas.

The Great Lockdown

The social distancing measures to contain the spread of the Covid-19 infection have been appropriately called the Great Lockdown, in remembrance of the Great Recession of the 1930s.

Reclaiming a Moral Economy

Bangladesh currently ranks among the fastest growing major economies in the world, notwithstanding some doubts about the growth estimates.

How democracies die and economies grow

There are two prominent themes of contemporary development discourses, both lacking a consensus, as reflected in academic research and in their popular versions in bestseller books.

A matter of definition?

In 2015, we welcomed the good news that Bangladesh had graduated from the low-income to low-middle-income status in the World Bank's classification of countries.

In memory of Simeen Mahmud

It is both difficult and painful to write an obituary of a spouse, particularly if the death is an untimely one. Yet many friends and academic colleagues of Simeen, my wife who has recently died at a Harvard hospital within hours of being rushed to the emergency room, have requested me to do so since they think that she was both my “intellectual and life's partner”.

Ambitious, populist with eye on polls

If the past record of budget implementation is any guide, the proposed budget definitely looks ambitious in terms of both revenue

March 16, 2023
March 16, 2023

A memoir that helps understand development

Perhaps the most important contribution of the book lies in providing intimate insights into how NGOs work in Bangladesh.

May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022

Bangladesh Economy: What got you here won’t get you there

Over the years, Bangladesh has achieved considerable economic progress despite many odds. The economy, however, has now reached a point where continued progress will require course corrections, as alluded by the title of this write up, which is also the subtitle of a bestselling business book.

November 27, 2021
November 27, 2021

Perils of global capitalism: What’s next?

In my recently published book, “Markets, Morals and Development” (Routledge, UK), I discussed the discontent with the contemporary global economic order that is prey to the excesses of market supremacy and beholden to private corporate interest.

February 28, 2021
February 28, 2021

Coming out of LDC, a welcome move from all sides

Bangladesh’s graduation from the list of least-developed countries (LDCs) is long overdue but the good news is that the country will graduate having met all three criteria.

February 16, 2021
February 16, 2021

Assessing economic development: An unconventional approach

Economic development can be viewed from different perspectives, but the overriding theme is one of improving human well-being.

July 21, 2020
July 21, 2020

Why do people resist Covid-19 hygiene?

Bangladesh followed other countries in its effort to contain the Covid-19 pandemic with the initial countrywide lockdown and measures for revamping the health infrastructure.

June 12, 2020
June 12, 2020

Blindsided by Covid-19

There is hardly any precedence of preparing a national budget under such extraordinary hard times and with so much uncertainties and dilemmas.

June 7, 2020
June 7, 2020

The Great Lockdown

The social distancing measures to contain the spread of the Covid-19 infection have been appropriately called the Great Lockdown, in remembrance of the Great Recession of the 1930s.

December 26, 2019
December 26, 2019

Reclaiming a Moral Economy

Bangladesh currently ranks among the fastest growing major economies in the world, notwithstanding some doubts about the growth estimates.

June 11, 2018
June 11, 2018

How democracies die and economies grow

There are two prominent themes of contemporary development discourses, both lacking a consensus, as reflected in academic research and in their popular versions in bestseller books.