
Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir
Dr Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir is professor in the Department of Development Studies at the University of Dhaka.
Dr Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir is professor in the Department of Development Studies at the University of Dhaka.
The debt burden can be reduced in the upcoming budget.
To honour the spirit of the July uprising, all political parties must commit to defining and institutionalising national interests.
Our political system stifles democracy and holds back economic progress.
The current situation requires cooperation, institutional restructuring and free and fair elections.
Prolonged uncertainty or a rigid "reform first, elections later" or “my way or the highway” stance will only deepen the crisis.
A CMRP agreed upon by the maximum number of political parties is necessary.
The fundamental principles of a country’s development policy originate from the aspirations of the people through their struggles.
It is not clear how the money needed to implement this ambitious budget will be sourced.
Bangladesh’s economy is overwhelmingly dominated by informal sectors. The informalisation stems from deindustrialisation, which has set in prematurely in the country.
The Covid-19 crisis necessitates a new roadmap for humanity. No other previous crisis caused as much devastation and reversals in gains in development since the 1990s.
The national budget for fiscal 2020-21 is being formulated at a time when the global coronavirus pandemic is leaving a long-lasting stain on the economy.
The digital revolution is shaping ways and means of people and planet by blurring fence lines amongst physical, digital, and biological worlds.
An assessment of implementation of 17 goals and 169 targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is required since SDGs are