Having spent almost a year with the novel Coronavirus, the new year brings forth a beacon of hope with the advent of vaccines, setting aside the associated implementation challenges. It also means that a stock-taking of the overall macroeconomic scenario of the pandemic-ravaged past year is now due– how it has unfolded, the anticipated and unanticipated consequences, and the extent of those effects. While most studies on Bangladesh, so far, has focused on microeconomic or sectoral and sub-sectoral aspects, we approach the matter with available secondary statistics, namely government publications, in an attempt to bring forth the story they tell for the lockdown and post-lockdown periods.
Having spent almost a year with the novel Coronavirus, the new year brings forth a beacon of hope with the advent of vaccines, setting aside the associated implementation challenges. It also means that a stock-taking of the overall macroeconomic scenario of the pandemic-ravaged past year is now due– how it has unfolded, the anticipated and unanticipated consequences, and the extent of those effects. While most studies on Bangladesh, so far, has focused on microeconomic or sectoral and sub-sectoral aspects, we approach the matter with available secondary statistics, namely government publications, in an attempt to bring forth the story they tell for the lockdown and post-lockdown periods.
