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Bangladesh’s $1 Billion Semiconductor Gamble
Can Bangladesh turn its army of engineers into a global technology powerhouse? With semiconductor exports targeted to surge from just $6–10 million to $1 billion by 2030, the country is racing to break free from its dependence on labour-intensive exports and claim a place in the trillion-dollar chip industry.
Bangladesh stitched its way into the global economy. Now, it wants to engineer its way
THE BIGGER PICTURE
Inside the AnalysisDreams are free. Global competitiveness is earned.Bangladesh has built an export powerhouse with
A Housing Tsunami Bigger Than 2008?
The global housing crisis is no longer just about soaring property prices; it is about mounting debt, unaffordable rents and the growing threat to financial stability. From London to Dhaka, the dream of homeownership is slipping beyond the reach of middle-income families, turning the struggle for a roof into a fight for economic survival.
A house should be a family's fortress-a source of security, a lifetime investment and a
Imagine spending the best years of your life earning money, raising a family and saving
For Bangladesh, the lesson is not to reject capitalism or growth, but to understand that growth without housing, social protection and accountable spending can leave prosperity sitting beside insecurity.
Silicon Valley created fortunes, Hollywood created global glamour and California built an economic machine larger
Dhaka Draws The Line
The stakes are enormous. A miscalculation could deepen financing pressures and unsettle investors. A carefully
The real test is whether the central bank and the government can build a credible bridge between monetary policy and bank rehabilitation—one that restores capital, recovers bad assets, protects depositors and enables healthy banks to resume productive lending.
Bangladesh Bank has kept its policy rate unchanged at 9.5%, but its latest monetary policy
A small business owner asks an AI assistant to manage a simple task: review outstanding
Frontier Economics report demonstrates how reducing mobile-specific taxation can accelerate digital development and expand government revenues
Bangladesh’s ambition to build a digital economy is running into a stubborn obstacle: the mobile
Emerging AI models pose a growing threat to financial stability and economic growth, Financial Stability
Bangladesh Bank has described the currency movement as a positive development for bilateral trade. But economists say the appreciation should be viewed with cautious optimism rather than celebration.
Bangladesh's currency has delivered one of the most unexpected financial stories in South Asia this
Bangladesh Bank's latest move against trade-based money laundering (TBML) is arguably one of the most
The renewed engagement with the World Bank sends a positive signal that Bangladesh remains firmly on the radar of major international financial institutions despite heightened global uncertainty.
Bangladesh has stepped onto the world's biggest diplomatic stage with an economy seeking confidence�and left
The world's markets have acquired a new fault line: oil above $100 a barrel.Brent crude
BRICS 2026: Is the Dollar Dying?
As BRICS builds a parallel payments architecture and expands local-currency trade, the world is entering
Cross-border payments are approaching a hard deadline in November, when SWIFT stops accepting unstructured address
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