Even before the recent change of government in the UK, its role in Bangladesh has been shifting, especially bilaterally.
The government needs to set in place irreversible principles and practices that constrain arbitrary power in the future leading to the misuse of popular consent.
Under the Tories, the emperor lost its clothes—if it ever had any. Its international rhetoric of “leave no one behind” is a hollow slogan at home.
A remarkable gathering of informants have been interviewed in recent years by René Holenstein, a former ambassador for Switzerland, for 'My Golden Bengal: Views and Voices from Civil Society.'
The depeasantisation thesis associated with Kautsky and popularised as “the Agrarian Question” needs to be subtly understood in Bangladesh.
Why we should care about remote others in time and space.
While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.
Just don’t expect too much from development NGOs in shifting the needle on the dial.
Even before the recent change of government in the UK, its role in Bangladesh has been shifting, especially bilaterally.
The government needs to set in place irreversible principles and practices that constrain arbitrary power in the future leading to the misuse of popular consent.
Under the Tories, the emperor lost its clothes—if it ever had any. Its international rhetoric of “leave no one behind” is a hollow slogan at home.
A remarkable gathering of informants have been interviewed in recent years by René Holenstein, a former ambassador for Switzerland, for 'My Golden Bengal: Views and Voices from Civil Society.'
The depeasantisation thesis associated with Kautsky and popularised as “the Agrarian Question” needs to be subtly understood in Bangladesh.
Why we should care about remote others in time and space.
While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.
Just don’t expect too much from development NGOs in shifting the needle on the dial.
"Policy" as an institutional process is a nebulous mixture of concepts, thinking, ideology, values, pragmatism, interests and, hopefully, evidence: prior, during, and afterwards.
In material development terms Bangladesh has changed a lot, and has made much progress since I first arrived just over 44 years ago.
