Biru Paksha Paul

Empowering' economic growth should be the prime agenda for the nation right now when growth is slowing down. This is a challenging task that can be done by ensuring the marriage of optimal investment policies with the right institutions.

My next-door neighbour in upstate New York was an old woman named June. Her husband Herbert was housed in a care centre for the elderly. They had grown-up kids living in different states of the US from where they made rare visits to their parents.

One of the plays of five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize, Maxim Gorky, was improvised in Bengali and was named Abirampaurutibhakshan (eating loaves continuously).

When I joined the central bank more than two years ago, I witnessed the proposal of big loan restructuring. One phrase economists care about is “moral hazards.”

The budget is a seasonal music that hardly runs out of notes. Most people criticise it as ambitious although that is how it ought to be.

In 1971, my father took us to Meghalaya where our painful refugee life began. We were on daily rations. As a little boy, I used to stand in the queue and sometimes rations ran out before I reached the counter.

The two tests my school friends hated the most were English and Math. When I was a college boy at a Dhaka residential school, one of my friends did not eat egg for breakfast on the date of English exams lest he scores less in the subject.

My university in Upstate New York once sent all its faculty members to Raquette Lake for meditation and brainstorming research ideas.

After the announcement of the new monetary policy for January-June 2017, the stock market faced a rapid decline, suggesting a negative response of the capital market to the central bank's stance and attitude.

Over every summer, I leave the US to visit my village in Nalitabari where I look after construction work and run an online class for the students of mainly upstate New York.

In 1900, Argentina looked like a promising country with respectable growth. It was queueing to be an industrialised country like many other western European nations.

The challenges on the international front the year 2017 will pose will be less impactful than domestic debility in private investment. Macro stability will continue to persist without remarkable improvement in the financial sector.

While people in developed nations pay little attention to their annual budgets, it turns out to be the most influential document for

The difference also came through the indomitable character of its people. Given the lowest investment in research, Bangladeshis can make the highest amount of innovations as seen in agriculture and services.

The latest monetary policy, which the central bank governor had announced recently, has passed through the market with a fair amount of approval...

The year 2016 has started with a note of optimism in the frontiers of both political understanding and investment prospects. Unlike

PROJECTING an economic outlook in early January is a New Year tradition. While political forecasts are not too divergent, economists

Over the last one year, since December 2014, Bangladesh's 12-month average inflation fell by 11 percent and came down to 6.2 percent in November 2015. However, India's inflation fell by 28 percent and came down to 4.8 percent, Pakistan's inflation dropped by 62 percent to reach below 3 percent.

Economics can turn into an inspirational story if the economist deals the subject with passion and insight. That is what Professor

The rate of return in Bangladesh is still high enough to attract new businesses. The businesses that desperately seek to install plants in foreign lands did not exhaust domestic possibilities by scanning our potential.