price hike 2022

Price hike of essentials: the poor have their back against the wall

Abdul Wahab, a security guard at an ATM booth of a private bank in the capital, works 16 hours a day.

All Pain and No Gain from Higher Interest Rates

In the name of taming inflation, central banks have set themselves on a path to cause a recession.

A probable global recession and Bangladesh

Dread and anxiety over the possibility of a global recession are rising around the world right now.

Oil, sugar price hike yet another shock to the economy

The government must implement economic policies that deal with the ongoing crisis

Energy prices should be consciously regulated by the government

When global prices dropped, we did not see the energy prices go down in Bangladesh. Why is that?

Price manipulators must be punished

Those who artificially raised prices did the country a great disservice

Bangladesh Bank policies have begun to work

Bangladesh, which has been going through financial difficulties for several months now, can finally see a little light at the end of the tunnel.

Reducing fuel prices by Tk 5 won't ease people’s suffering

The amount by which the government has reduced the prices is so meagre – and so thoroughly insufficient to address the corresponding increase in the cost of living – that we can’t help but ask: Why even bother?

Paying same, taking home less

That high inflationary pressure has been taking a toll on people over the last couple of months is apparently evident in supermarkets, where the same amount of money is being spent albeit for the purchase of a lower number and volume of goods. 

February 5, 2023
February 5, 2023

Price hike of essentials: the poor have their back against the wall

Abdul Wahab, a security guard at an ATM booth of a private bank in the capital, works 16 hours a day.

December 12, 2022
December 12, 2022

All Pain and No Gain from Higher Interest Rates

In the name of taming inflation, central banks have set themselves on a path to cause a recession.

November 27, 2022
November 27, 2022

A probable global recession and Bangladesh

Dread and anxiety over the possibility of a global recession are rising around the world right now.

November 18, 2022
November 18, 2022

Oil, sugar price hike yet another shock to the economy

The government must implement economic policies that deal with the ongoing crisis

October 7, 2022
October 7, 2022

Energy prices should be consciously regulated by the government

When global prices dropped, we did not see the energy prices go down in Bangladesh. Why is that?

September 27, 2022
September 27, 2022

Price manipulators must be punished

Those who artificially raised prices did the country a great disservice

August 30, 2022
August 30, 2022

Bangladesh Bank policies have begun to work

Bangladesh, which has been going through financial difficulties for several months now, can finally see a little light at the end of the tunnel.

August 30, 2022
August 30, 2022

Reducing fuel prices by Tk 5 won't ease people’s suffering

The amount by which the government has reduced the prices is so meagre – and so thoroughly insufficient to address the corresponding increase in the cost of living – that we can’t help but ask: Why even bother?

August 19, 2022
August 19, 2022

Paying same, taking home less

That high inflationary pressure has been taking a toll on people over the last couple of months is apparently evident in supermarkets, where the same amount of money is being spent albeit for the purchase of a lower number and volume of goods. 

August 12, 2022
August 12, 2022

‘Walkman Syndrome’ afflicts the AL and our government

Nothing but their own voices reaches them

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