Jyoti Rahman.

21 Jul 2026

Bangladesh Bank Needs to Establish Policy Credibility. This is not How.

The Monetary Policy Statement was announced in the last week of June, and was almost immediately hemmed in by the circular announcing the spread cap -- a sequencing that signals incoherence.

10 Jun 2026

Shifting the Gear on the Economy

Every budget season brings the same ritual. Numbers are unveiled, pundits declare them too optimistic or too austere, and commentary fixates on a set of numbers -- GDP growth or revenue targets are to

1 Jun 2026

The Politics of Synthesis 2.0

Economists are infamous for their physics envy, whereby they try to model social phenomena involving human interactions with precise mathematical rigour. Scholars of politics or sociology, in turn, ar