Selim Raihan

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has proposed a comprehensive legal overhaul to secure full institutional autonomy and reduce political interference.

The officially reported figures showing only a slight rise in food inflation in September 2025 seem hard to reconcile with ground realities. Anyone who has visited a kitchen market in Dhaka in recent months knows that the prices of essentials, such as rice, flour, pulses, edible oil, meat, and fish, have surged far more sharply than the marginal 0.04 percentage point increase would suggest.

Industrial policy needs to address issues of education and skill development for facilitating higher capabilities for export diversification, attracting FDI and integrating with the global value chain.