June 6, 2021
A budget that fails to save lives and livelihood
He set off to save lives and livelihoods in his third budget as the finance minister and his second amid the global coronavirus pandemic, and along the way, went astray.
August 11, 2020
The cool head steering Unilever Bangladesh through the tempest
We are sailing through the most extraordinary times in living memory, with every facet of what we knew as normal life upended. So, one would expect the man heading the Bangladesh arm of a...
June 12, 2020
A budget not of its time
Any finance minister delivering a national budget wants, ideally, to project three qualities: calm, authority and very slight dullness.
June 11, 2020
Budget of self-preservation
It seems the universe keeps conspiring against Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal. ...
June 10, 2020
A V-shaped economic recovery is still within reach. But the general public must play its part.
Optimism is a disease, the polemical British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie once said, and talking with Manmohan Parkash, the country director of the Asian Development Bank, one can’t help but...
January 25, 2020
Docking bad loans has now become critical
Age is the price of wisdom, it is often said. And an audience with the immediate past finance minister, AMA Muhith, calls to mind that saying.
January 20, 2020
‘We are a nation in a hurry’
Halfway through an interview at the Planning Commission, Planning Minister MA Mannan is asked about the logic behind the inordinate number of projects that are in implementation at any given moment.
January 3, 2020
‘It’s not possible to do everything overnight’
The man with the plan, is the impression one walks away with after an audience with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal. Later, one is invariably met with the question: was he being a little too...
November 23, 2019
Bangla Bond has huge demand
Gamechanger -- is what best describes the debut of Bangla Bond, a taka-denominated debt instrument, on the London Stock Exchange on November 11 for Bangladesh.
November 12, 2019
Bangla Bond Launched: Acid test for Bangladesh growth story
Much has been said about the tremendous growth momentum of the Bangladesh economy. It was amongst the fastest growing nations in the world in the past decade, as per data from the state-run...