Still struggling after five decades, Bangladesh has turned into a development paradox.
As Bangladesh seeks to recalibrate its path in the aftermath of recent upheavals, the time is ripe to revisit an oft-invoked but under-examined agenda: institutional reform. Institutions are crucial to understand, as they are foundational for governance, transformation, and economic development.
It is important to encourage all development players to invest money and energy to maximise their contributions towards the GDP growth.
The fundamental principles of a country’s development policy originate from the aspirations of the people through their struggles.
Why singularly blame bureaucrats and project directors for cost and time overruns?
Each day of inaction translates to more lives lost
Just don’t expect too much from development NGOs in shifting the needle on the dial.
It has been observed that monitoring & evaluation functions within ministries and their departments are poorly understood, under-funded, and underutilised.
Jahangirnagar University must protect its green campus
Ironically, under the shadow of stability, the quality of economics and politics has been compromised
Nazmunnessa Mahtab has written a quite all-encompassing book on women and gender issues.
Both countries have had a single-minded focus on GDP growth, with not enough attention to jobs, climate, the distribution effects and the destructive impact of crony capitalism.
Perhaps the most important contribution of the book lies in providing intimate insights into how NGOs work in Bangladesh.
If government officials were held responsible and accountable for every incident, things would have been corrected much earlier.
Over the past month, journalists and activists have been subjected to an amplified scale of threats, intimidation, and incarceration at the hands of powerful group.
Unlike the “War on Terror,” a script written and executed by US President George W Bush, the “War on Trees” has been far more successful.
It seems grossly inappropriate that in a country on its way to achieving middle-income status, there are still people dying from poverty.
The book doesn’t only become a memoir of the writer’s life as a development worker, but also a tribute to the late Sir Abed and his magnanimity as a human being and a visionary.
UN human rights chief's visit to Dhaka revealed contrasting expectations on the part of the government and rights groups.
