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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Oct 1, 2026
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- Jul 20, 2026
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Bangladesh needs to reform its trade policy to boost exports (opens the original)
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Bangladesh’s trade policy faces an inherent contradiction. While the country has spent decades trying to diversify its exports, attract foreign investment, and enter more sophisticated international markets, much of its trade system still gives firms stronger incentives to operate in a protected domestic market than to compete globally. Although the RMG industry avoided this problem by enjoying bonded facilities and duty-free imports of raw materials, many other industries were not treated simil
Quarterly monetary policy: Is caution enough? (opens the original)
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Bangladesh Bank’s first-ever quarterly Monetary Policy Statement is an important institutional change. Moving from half-yearly to quarterly reviews should make monetary policy more responsive to rapidly changing domestic and global conditions. But greater frequency will matter little unless policy becomes more effective in addressing Bangladesh’s difficult combination of persistent inflation, weak investment and financial-sector stress. The decision to keep the repo rate unchanged at 9.5 percent
Bangladesh’s first quarterly monetary policy: is caution enough? (opens the original)
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Bangladesh Bank’s first-ever quarterly Monetary Policy Statement is an important institutional change. Moving from half-yearly to quarterly reviews should make monetary policy more responsive to rapidly changing domestic and global conditions. But greater frequency will matter little unless policy becomes more effective in addressing Bangladesh’s difficult combination of persistent inflation, weak investment and financial-sector stress. The decision to keep the repo rate unchanged at 9.5 percent
The fiscal risk of a pay rise without revenue reform (opens the original)
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For Bangladesh’s government employees, the new pay scale brings understandable relief after years of high inflation and rising living costs. While salaries needed adjustment, the economic question is whether the state can absorb a permanent additional expenditure of Tk 1,05,580 crore a year without worsening the very pressures that have eroded household purchasing power. At a time of weak revenue mobilisation, persistent elevated inflation, banking-sector stress and limited fiscal space, a salar
The fiscal risk of a pay rise without revenue reform (opens the original)
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For Bangladesh’s government employees, the new pay scale brings understandable relief after years of high inflation and rising living costs. While salaries needed adjustment, the economic question is whether the state can absorb a permanent additional expenditure of Tk 1,05,580 crore a year without worsening the very pressures that have eroded household purchasing power. At a time of weak revenue mobilisation, persistent elevated inflation, banking-sector stress and limited fiscal space, a salar
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