Inflation remains beyond control and continues to shave off the value of deposits. And with the country’s banking sector in shambles, where can ordinary citizens invest their savings?
Bangladesh's current inflation rate is the highest in 11 years. Due to rising inflation, not only marginalised people but lower-middle and middle-class people, too, are under great stress.
What Bangladeshi economists have been saying for a long time is pretty much what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has told our central bank and the government.
The sudden rise in the price of sugar, a key ingredient for popular items such as biscuits, juices, sweets and candies, has pushed up the cost of production, putting manufacturers in a tight spot.
Some say that living in Dhaka is not easy and for those who have lived here for years, nothing is easy. In fact, living in this city makes it easier to tolerate any other inconvenience with a hair-flip. Someone spat inches away from your feet? Tolerate. It landed on you? Wipe and move on. The world might have a fancy word like noise pollution for needlessly honking cars but we