Eresh Omar Jamal

Many economists today believe we are committing one of the biggest economic blunders, which has brought ruin to countless past societies.

The burden of imported inflation and supply-side implications of reduced imports will have adverse implications for economic growth and welfare, particularly of marginalised people.

“It’s going to get ugly, the recession,” and there will be “a financial crisis,” Roubini said.

Bangladesh should immediately get into negotiations with energy-exporting countries to come up with favourable arrangements.

The lack of transparency in the energy sector is costing the nation dearly.

When global prices dropped, we did not see the energy prices go down in Bangladesh. Why is that?

The national energy crisis is a direct result of the corruption and nepotism encouraged by the indemnity law.

US-China friction over Taiwan likely to have worrying impacts on global stability.

Once again, the public must pay for the government's failure.

Ahsan H Mansur of Policy Research Institute talks about Bangladesh’s current economic crisis with Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star.

There are two major economic problems that have been plaguing Bangladesh for a long time: Rising non-performing loans (NPLs), and money getting laundered out of the country.

Researching the plight of Indigenous people is a passion of mine because I am Indigenous.

Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman, executive chairman of the Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC), discusses the proposed national budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year with Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star.

One important but oft-ignored thing is that design and implementation mistakes delay the revenue-generation phase of megaprojects.

The number of risks that our economy currently faces because of all the global instabilities is perhaps unmatched since the early days of Bangladesh’s independence. Amid this reality, the government is set to present the new budget early next month.

The war in Ukraine is, in reality, a proxy war being fought between the West and Russia. Unlike its portrayal in the Western media, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was neither unprovoked nor unpredictable.

If we are to have an inclusive society, we can’t simply “cancel” those who we don’t agree with.

Sri Lanka is known as the country of smiling people because of their friendliness. But recently, the island nation has been experiencing an explosion of pain and anger.

While Covid-19 captured the attention of the world for the last two years or more, another pandemic has been silently killing countless numbers of people around the world.

According to a recent report, due to the insistence of lawmakers, the government is going to repair religious establishments and build new bridges across the country at a cost of Tk 5,132 crore.