In August, low-skilled workers saw their wages rise by 7.58%, trailing 2.34 percentage points behind the 9.92% inflation rate, according to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data. This wage-inflation gap has persisted for 19 months.
Writing is becoming increasingly difficult as one has to tiptoe through a minefield, not knowing which topic may set off a trigger or become a bummer. It’s not nice to hear that we have the worst record of press freedom among South Asian countries, lower than Afghanistan.
Price hike of essentials: According to a report of the Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB), middle-income people have suffered the most throughout 2022 as the average annual inflation rate was 11.08 percent in Dhaka city that year.