
Selim Jahan
Selim Jahan is former director of the Human Development Report Office under the United Nations Development Programme and lead author of the Human Development Report.
Selim Jahan is former director of the Human Development Report Office under the United Nations Development Programme and lead author of the Human Development Report.
On the first day of the Bangla New Year, every nook and corner of Bangladesh is brightened.
The million-dollar question is: how can Bangladesh recover the laundered money that has crossed its borders?
There is no denying the fact that the greatest wealth of a nation is neither its geographical size nor its natural resources, but its skilled human resources.
Assessing the overall results of the index, it seems that the world’s democracies are struggling.
In the new geopolitical order, Bangladesh must seize the emerging economic opportunities.
Today, Bangladesh aspires to build a society without inequalities—particularly economic inequalities.
The efficacy of various policy measures undertaken by the government has been questioned.
Every child born in Bangladesh today is born with a debt.
According to latest reports, the Labour Party has won a landslide victory with 412 seats.
In general, five issues need to be borne in mind when it comes to bank mergers in Bangladesh.
People are the real wealth of a nation. The fundamental objective of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy a long, healthy, and creative life. Human development is simply defined as a process of enlarging choices and creating opportunities for everyone.
Dr Selim Jahan lays out all the facts about Bangladesh's debt financing situation.
Debt servicing has become a rising concern for developing countries in recent times.
“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber, and as deadly as a hitman”—these were the words of Ronald Reagan during his campaign for the US presidency at the beginning of 1980s.
Analytically speaking, if economic growth is to be inclusive, it must fulfil three mutually synergetic criteria: it must be sustained and pro-poor; it must ensure equity in resource availability, access to basic social services and income distribution; and it must be accompanied by productive employment.
It was a bright sunny morning in Vientiane, where I was visiting during the first week of December 2017.
The Taliban have taken over Afghanistan—that is yesterday’s news. That thousands of distressed Afghans were crowding Kabul Airport to try and escape the country has also become an old fact.
Afghanistan is now under the reins of the Taliban. No, they have not come to power through the ballot box, rather they have accomplished it by implementing the famous saying of Mao Zedong: “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Afghanistan is now a Shariah-based Islamic state.