Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Saturday described the government’s decision to hike fuel prices by more than 51 percent as "cruel" and "unprecedented".
“Such an increase in the fuel prices wi...
The two-day 11th International Conference on the Restructuring of the Global Economy (ROGE) will be held at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford during August 8-9.
The Centre for Bus...
Inflation surged in June and workers’ average wages accelerated in the spring — signs that Americans won’t likely feel any relief from rising prices anytime soon and that the Federal Reserve wil...
Prices for gas, food and rent are soaring. The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates to the highest level since 2018. The U.S. economy has shrunk for two straight quarters.
Economists are divided...
Amid discussions about a Sri Lanka-type abyss in Bangladesh, the Awami League (AL) has come up with a comparative analysis of inflation in different countries, showing how it managed to deal with it i...
Confirming Bangladesh’s request for a loan from International Monetary Fund (IMF) Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said that it does not mean the country's economy is in bad shape.
“But I...
Chamila Nilanthi is tired of all the waiting. The 47-year-old mother of two spent three days lining up to get kerosene in the Sri Lankan town of Gampaha, northeast of the capital Colombo. Two weeks ea...
Sri Lanka’s prime minister says the island nation’s debt-laden economy has “collapsed” as it runs out of money to pay for food and fuel. Short of cash to pay for imports of such necessities an...
The dramatic real-life effects of Internet shutdowns on people’s lives and human rights have been vastly underestimated, the UN Human Rights Office warns in a new report issued from Geneva on Thursd...
Bangladesh’s overall inflation in May surged to an eight-year high at 7.42 per cent, driven mainly by soaring food prices, according to an official report.
The rate of inflation was 6.29 per cent ...