Sharjil Haque

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2014-15, global sovereign rating agencies Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch assigned Bangladesh a 'stable' sovereign credit outlook.

If monetary policy autonomy is a priority, capital account liberalisation should come after a country’s transition to a flexible exchange rate – not before it.

The year 2015 was not kind to the world's second-largest economy. Growth slumped to a 25-year low. The stock market experienced

FROM USD 9 billion only four years ago, foreign exchange (forex) reserves have risen exponentially and ended 2015 at USD 27 billion.

BANGLADESH'S remarkable success in exports needs no new recognition. Sustained comparative advantage in low-skilled labour

WHAT can banks do with their rising volume of surplus liquidity? As Advanced-Deposit ratio has been declining, banks rushed towards

The rising trend of foreign currency loans availed by the private sector is a relatively new phenomenon in Bangladesh since access to international markets was liberalised in 2008.

Amid the wave of currency depreciation across emerging markets in Asia, Bangladesh Bank's (BB) fight against appreciation stands out as an intriguing challenge. Economists and the corporate sector are calling for an “engineered” depreciation of the taka to revive export competitiveness.

Pressure from the IMF suggests that, with time China will indeed move towards a more open capital market. But that creates other challenges for Asia's largest economy.