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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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