Jobless growth, really?

The growth narrative of a developing country takes a long time to assume a mature shape and this is more true for a country like Bangladesh, which is in transition and the sources of growth are multiple and complex. Ideally, a large body of research outputs are put together to...

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A crisis playbook for Big Tech

The predictions were wrong: the global economy didn't collapse after the 2008 financial crisis. Buoyed by taxpayer-financed bailouts, banks recovered and business at most institutions stabilised. But if there is one lingering casualty of that era, it is the erosion of public trust in the financial sector. Ten years after...

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Making Rohingya repatriation sustainable

Signing of an 'instrument' between Bangladesh and Myanmar for repatriation of Rohingyas notwithstanding, not a single person out of over a million refugees returned home within the last six months. Buddhist-majority Myanmar, as in the past, seems to have taken an indifferent approach this time too towards taking back home...

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