Economics
Team Bangladesh wins silver and bronze medals at the International Economics Olympiad 2022
Around 43 teams from 42 countries and territories comprising more than 200 participants participated in the Olympiad this year.
Akbar Ali Khan: the “Learned” and self-critical scholar
He intended to break down the jargon of economics, history, politics, and the theories behind it and make them palatable to the everyday readers. He inspired people to take part in shaping the tools and mechanisms that drive the governance of the state.
Team Bangladesh wins silver and bronze medals at the International Economics Olympiad 2022
Around 43 teams from 42 countries and territories comprising more than 200 participants participated in the Olympiad this year.
Getting a grip on the Bangladesh development narrative
The book poses a number of questions: which factors have contributed to Bangladesh’s growth?
'Untranquil Recollections': Reviewing the memoir of Rehman Sobhan, an incurable optimist
The second volume of Rehman Sobhan’s memoirs, Untranquil Recollections: Political Economy of Nation Building in Post-Liberation Bangladesh (University Press Limited, 2022) deals primarily with the years of 1972 to 1975,
Marriage, through the lens of an economist
The thought of getting married is now more complex than ever.
Pitfalls of Junk Economics
According to a 2018 report by Oxfam International, “Eighty-two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no increase in their wealth.
The Literature of Economics
Economics has long held a reputation of being an inaccessible social science. We are daunted by its intricacies, technicalities and ambiguities.
Brexit and its economic fallout
The United Kingdom is now in the midst of a Shakespearean dilemma, “to stay or not to stay”. Voters will decide in a referendum on June 23...
Monopoly's New Era
For 200 years, there have been two schools of thought about what determines the distribution of income – and how the economy functions.
Does Bangladesh deserve a higher sovereign rating?
In Fiscal Year (FY) 2014-15, global sovereign rating agencies Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch assigned Bangladesh a 'stable' sovereign credit outlook.