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
The cabinet approves the draft of the Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Policy-2015 in a bid to ensure development in the ICT sector.
Financing the 2015-16 fiscal budget will be its biggest challenge, CPD says placing doubts on whether the revenue target can be met.
The finance minister proposes allocating Tk 200 crore for expediting development in the enclaves in the upcoming fiscal year.
European Union announces release of €10.5 million fund for the primary education of Bangladesh through its sector budget support operation.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reiterates her government's commitment to reach electricity to every house saying seventy percent people now have access to electricity and much time would not be needed to reach electricity to every house.
Government approves of importing additional 600MW power from neighbouring India at a cost of about Tk 1,600 crore via the electricity interconnectivity grid.
THE Western media was all about Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of modern Singapore, when he died recently.
NASA's team Curiosity Rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars which is a significant discovery that adds to evidence the Red Planet could once have sustained life, the space agency said.
Mark Lowcock, UK Permanent Secretary for Department for International Development (DFID), arrives in Dhaka on a two-day official visit
