Finance

Robbery by the Yunus–Jamaat Alliance and Incompetent BNP Leadership Push Bangladesh Toward Poverty Risk

Risk of 120 Million People Falling Below the Poverty Line In the context of recent economic trends, more than 100 million people in Bangladesh are...

BNP Government Approves $1.6 Billion Loan Burden on Citizens

On April 28, at the Planning Ministry, the BNP government made a decision that, in simple terms, places yet another heavy burden on future...

Government Borrowing by Printing Money Raises Inflation Fears

Bangladesh’s fragile macroeconomic situation is facing renewed concern, as economists warn that the government’s growing reliance on borrowing through...

A USD 4.1 Billion Hole: Who Will Fill the Gap Left by Yunus?

What the Yunus administration has left behind in Bangladesh’s power sector can scarcely be described as anything less than...

Nobel Peace Laureate Yunus Leaves Office Amid Questions Over 18-Month Tenure

Bringing an eventful 18 months in Bangladeshi politics to a close, the interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize...

226 Thousand Crore in Loans, Zero Development: Yunus’s Legacy of Crippling Bangladesh

When Sheikh Hasina left the country, Bangladesh’s total public debt stood at 19.23 lakh crore taka. In just eighteen...

In a country where a microcredit businessman is the Chief Adviser, people will inevitably die under the burden of debt

Before jumping in front of the train, Mir Ruhul Amin may have paused for a moment to think: where...

Politics rocked by allegations of lobbying and extortion even before coming to power, rumors of a multi-crore racket using Tarique Rahman’s name

Even before coming to power, old-style politics of corruption, lobbying, and abuse of influence is allegedly resurfacing. With these...