Abdullah A Dewan

Economics is not a museum of immortal models. It is a diagnostic discipline whose tools must match the condition of the economy under examination.

People are increasingly weary and frustrated with the pace of improvement in law and order. This is reasonable given the little visible remission in nationwide crime, with gun shootings, knife killings, beatings with sticks and rods, street clashes, and mob attacks continuing to punctuate public life.

I write this in response to an article recently published by The Daily Star, titled The interim has failed to curb inflation and unemployment.

Labour's share collapses because wages are suppressed by informal payments embedded throughout production.

Marine fish populations have plummeted at a rate scientists describe as catastrophic.

Zohran Mamdani's historic 2025 mayoral victory reshapes New York’s political landscape.

The story of Muslim absence from the Nobel list is not a tale of oppression or bias; it is a chronicle of diminished pursuit of passion unrenewed and potentials unfulfilled.

At the heart of the problem lies wage disparity. Economists track this through the wage share of value added—the portion of output that accrues to workers as pay after materials and overhead.