Creating jobs and driving growth-where should the focus be?

Despite notable improvements in macroeconomic indicators in recent years, Bangladesh now faces an urgent challenge: creating sufficient jobs and stimulating economic growth. The slowdown in new investment, combined with the closure of existing factories, has left many workers unemployed and weakened industrial momentum. At the same time, gross domestic product...

Thinking through a crisis

In fast-moving crises, early signals create strong impressions but weak understanding. For countries like Bangladesh, which feel wars mainly through prices and trade rather than battlefields, misreading the timing can be costlier than the shock itself. The following rules help read events while they are still forming.Time and interpretation1. The...