DataSense interviewed Dr. Zaidi Sattar, Economist and Chairman, Policy Research Institute (PRI) of Bangladesh, to discuss the critical strategies the National Budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-25 must adopt to stabilize the economy and pave the way for sustainable future growth. Dr. Sattar divides the economic challenges into two categories:
DataSense recently interviewed Ashraf Ahmed, DCCI Representative, to capture the business community’s views on the core challenges and necessary reforms for Bangladesh’s National Budget in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-25. His analysis stresses that the budget must focus on restoring stability while proactively preparing the economy for the 2026 LDC graduation.
DataSense recently sat down with Dr. Zahid Hussain, a leading economist, to dissect the critical economic challenges facing Bangladesh for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-25 budget. His analysis highlights the need for immediate, decisive structural reforms to restore macroeconomic health, strengthen institutions, and ensure inclusive growth. The Three Core Challenges
DataSense interviewed a leading economist, Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed, currently Finance Adviser to the interim government of Bangladesh, to identify the core challenges confronting the Bangladesh National Budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-25. The discussion focused on restoring the economy’s foundational strengths, moving beyond a “growth-only” strategy, and preparing for a
The care economy consists of all unpaid and paid care work and services that contribute to the direct and indirect care of children, elderly, sick, disabled and adults. Care work refers to domestic chores such as cooking, cleaning, washing, feeding, taking care of individuals, and so on. This type of
In Bangladesh, women started participating in labour migration since 1991, and as of December 2022, a total of around 1.11 million women migrant workers have gone abroad, which is around 7.5% of total labour migration from Bangladesh so far[BMET 2022]. Saudi Arabia is the major destination for women migrant workers.
In 2021, e-Commerce had become a centre of attention across the nation. The reason behind is, a few e-commerce platforms has become source of dissonance for buyers and suppliers. The magnitude of scam is high and the potential loss of buyers and suppliers is staggering. In business, one can offer
Cross-border e-commerce is a form of international commerce that sells goods and services across borders with the help of advanced technology and the Internet (Ding et al., 2017). In this form of commerce, businesses sell directly to consumers (B2C) through websites or online marketplaces, unlike the traditional business forms where
Bangladesh has had a robust growth in the SME sector over the last decade. The sector currently accounts for over 25% share in the GDP (Rahman, 2022). A total of 7.5 million SMEs including CMSMEs accounts for almost 97% of all enterprises in Bangladesh (Hossain, 2021). The sector also employs
DataSense interviewed a leading economic expert, Professor Mustafizur Rahman, to identify the core challenges confronting the Bangladesh National Budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-25. The discussion focused on how to restore the economy’s foundational strengths and prepare for a critical transition in global trade. His insights are originally published in
