The Financial Express

Onion, medicine and consumers' woes

The annual turnover of the country's pharmaceutical industry is now over Tk 200 billion. It may not take a long time for the industry to double its turnover the way the prices of drugs and medicines have been rising unabatedly....

Views

How to realise the dream of universal health coverage

With its health sector still remaining in the doldrums, Bangladesh,...

Curbing NPL through modernisation of loan operation

The recently published Bangladesh Bank's (BB) quarterly report reveals that...

Changing face of 'addas' in cyber age

We live in an age when people are alienated from...

Trade diversification: Sustainable export-led growth

Bangladesh is experiencing an era of growth fuelled by strong...

Climate Summit kicks off, caught between realism and hope

Innovation myth and loss of opportunity for policy delay

Onion crisis: Short-sightedness of authorities, businesspeople

What kind of capitalism do we want?

Bitcoin is a delusion but Blockchain is ingenious

Determining compensation to be paid by the big emitters of carbon

Columns

HDI gain does not fully reflect quality of life

On Wednesday, newspapers carried two pieces of good news for...

Measuring growth democratically

Threat of G20 protectionism to global trade

Climate crisis hits a somnambulistic world

Extravagance in power generation

The young and the jobless

An unloved city

Opinions

Rejuvenating employment growth

Unemployment situation in Bangladesh has become a challenge for the...

A larger health budget essential

Bangladesh has much to celebrate on this day, December 12,...

Food 'crisis' despite self-sufficiency, high growth!

The surge in onion prices could have been considered a...

Into the land of endless possibilities

AI, IoT, cloud and various other innovative services have been...

Cost of living going beyond reach

Inter-university collaboration can help scientific research in Bangladesh

Dhaka's lung affliction

Boring accountants make life interesting

Smart irrigation technology for sustainable agriculture

Access to global climate fund main challenge

Reviews

Onion shortage and market failure

Onion price spirals have been a cri de coeur for quite some time from all quarters. The persistence of price spirals and unabated price hike of onions has increasingly becoming an obvious fallout of what we in economics call a market failure. Market failure is an economic term that references...