Trade confrontation: Insights from game theory

The trade confrontation between the United States and China is heating up. After firing an opening salvo of steep tariffs on steel and aluminum, the US administration has released a plan for a 25 per cent tariff on 1,333 Chinese imports - worth about $50 billion last year - to...

Manufacturing sector key to economic growth

The economic performance of a country is usually measured through changes in its gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of what the country produces. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has just announced its preliminary national accounts estimates for FY 2017-18. The main purpose of such an early announcement is to...