Biru Paksha Paul

Rarely have we seen both politicians and economists dance together and play the same tune on the state of the economy.

If we compare an economy to an aeroplane, fiscal policy and monetary policy would be its two wings.

The word maya originates from Sanskrit, meaning attraction that you feel for your loved ones with a sense of bond and attachment.

We live in a notoriously polluted city of the world, and still we choose to live here because we have a dream. We live in a system where

In 1962, US president John F Kennedy declared in his famous moon speech, “We choose to go to the moon.” Since then the US increased its budget and efforts to beat the then Soviet Union in the space race and eventually,

When a mother claims that her son could have achieved a grade of A though he actually earned B+, we understand the son performed below his potential and did not work to his fullest capacity for the test.

We ‘gloriously' occupied the 125th position among 136 nations of the world in the Tourism Competitive Index 2017 – we have been ranked the worst place to visit in South Asia.

On the sidelines of an investment summit in Singapore in 2015, I wanted to act like Caliph Haroon and make a foray into the illegal remittance market to find out why people prefer hundi (used as a form of remittance instrument to transfer money from place to place, as a form of credit instrument or IOU to borrow money and as a bill of exchange in trade transactions) over legal channels.

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.