An ill-timed arrest?
31 October 2023
Conversely, the media speeches of numerous other party leaders exhibit a more aggressive stance than this kind of nonviolent agitation. Removing Fakhrul from the scene in this scenario raises the likelihood of a conflict
31 October 2023
Book Excerpt / A memoir that helps understand development
16 March 2023
Perhaps the most important contribution of the book lies in providing intimate insights into how NGOs work in Bangladesh.
16 March 2023
Bangladesh Economy: What got you here won’t get you there
17 May 2022
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.
17 May 2022
Perils of global capitalism: What’s next?
26 November 2021
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.
26 November 2021
Coming out of LDC, a welcome move from all sides
27 February 2021
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.
27 February 2021
Assessing economic development: An unconventional approach
15 February 2021
Economic development can be viewed from different perspectives, but the overriding theme is one of improving human well-being.
15 February 2021
Why do people resist Covid-19 hygiene?
20 July 2020
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.
20 July 2020
Blindsided by Covid-19
11 June 2020
There is hardly any precedence of preparing a national budget under such extraordinary hard times and with so much uncertainties and dilemmas.
11 June 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.
6 June 2020
Reclaiming a Moral Economy
Bangladesh currently ranks among the fastest growing major economies in the world, notwithstanding some doubts about the growth estimates.
25 December 2019
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.
10 June 2018
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.
14 May 2018
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”.
6 April 2018
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
1 June 2017