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Debra Efroymson

Debra Efroymson is the executive director of the Institute of Wellbeing, Bangladesh, and author of "Beyond Apologies: Defining and Achieving an Economics of Wellbeing."

World Car Free Day

World Car Free Day / Cities for people… or cars?

Imagine that you were a car, not a person. How different would life be for you in Dhaka?
22 September 2025, 04:00 AM
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How I overcame shyness

Women have rights that we need to defend.
21 August 2025, 10:00 AM
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The power of goodness

People seem to love making negative remarks about societal breakdown and people’s lack of concern for others.
12 June 2025, 05:00 AM
Car pollution

Cars are killing Earth, in more ways than we think

Cars are harmful to our health and to our environment.
29 April 2025, 03:00 AM
Bike bus in Barcelona

Are school buses the answer to our traffic woes?

There are plenty of great examples of improving the traffic situation around schools and making the children's lives better.
21 March 2025, 06:00 AM
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Public health must prioritise disease prevention

There is a common confusion around the subject of health.
31 January 2025, 06:05 AM
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World Children’s Day / Helping street children requires a holistic, evidence-based approach

The focus of local governments should be ensuring that child protection protection services are prioritised.
20 November 2024, 04:01 AM
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Democracy dies undefended

What can we learn from the American disaster? First, that democracy isn’t easy.
11 November 2024, 11:37 AM
World Car Free Day

Cities for people… or cars?

Imagine that you were a car, not a person. How different would life be for you in Dhaka?
22 September 2025, 04:00 AM
65655904_9569523.jpg

How I overcame shyness

Women have rights that we need to defend.
21 August 2025, 10:00 AM
unnamed.jpg

The power of goodness

People seem to love making negative remarks about societal breakdown and people’s lack of concern for others.
12 June 2025, 05:00 AM
Car pollution

Cars are killing Earth, in more ways than we think

Cars are harmful to our health and to our environment.
29 April 2025, 03:00 AM
Bike bus in Barcelona

Are school buses the answer to our traffic woes?

There are plenty of great examples of improving the traffic situation around schools and making the children's lives better.
21 March 2025, 06:00 AM
untitled_design.jpg

Public health must prioritise disease prevention

There is a common confusion around the subject of health.
31 January 2025, 06:05 AM
star_ed2.jpg

Helping street children requires a holistic, evidence-based approach

The focus of local governments should be ensuring that child protection protection services are prioritised.
20 November 2024, 04:01 AM
op_2_-_us_elections_-_reuters.jpg

Democracy dies undefended

What can we learn from the American disaster? First, that democracy isn’t easy.
11 November 2024, 11:37 AM
cities designed for people not cars

World Cities Day 2024: Cities should be for people, not cars

It is time to greatly restrict the use of private motorised vehicles and make our cities more liveable.
31 October 2024, 02:00 AM
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The wisdom of youth

If we have learnt nothing else in the last several months, it is not to underestimate the power of young people.
19 October 2024, 08:00 AM
Bigger isn't always better

Bigger isn't always better

The belief shared by corporate and government leaders that bigger is always better is founded on the false assumption
26 June 2024, 06:00 AM
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Play should be a fundamental right for all children

Play is not a unique human construction: baby animals engage in play, using it to learn a variety of important skills
11 June 2024, 04:00 AM
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The contradiction of comfort

How comfortable is it to not have clean air to breathe?
26 April 2024, 06:00 AM
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Risky play and adventure playgrounds

Children flourish when given the opportunity to explore their environment and calculate risks.
31 March 2024, 09:09 AM
Acknowledge negativity, but don’t ignore the positive

Acknowledge negativity, but don’t ignore the positive

People assign varying weights to their experiences, and so some of us focus on the positive.
2 March 2024, 02:00 AM
violence against women

Respecting boundaries and holding men responsible

I wish we lived in a world where the perpetrator, not the survivor, was blamed for their actions.
30 January 2024, 14:00 PM
Can we have bicycle highways, too?

Can we have bicycle highways, too?

Let’s get over the prejudice that expressways are for cars.
10 January 2024, 04:00 AM
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A plea for common humanity

Attitudes that insist on finding differences rather than commonalities are troubling.
14 November 2023, 02:00 AM
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World Car-free Day: Decarbonise transport for climate justice

What happens to be a great solution for decarbonising transport is enabling and promoting walking, cycling, and pedal-powered rickshaws.
22 September 2023, 00:00 AM
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Our forgotten elderly

In many cities around the world, elderly people literally cannot cross the road because the timing on crossing signals is too brief. At least we don’t have that problem in Dhaka, if only due to the absence of functional traffic lights.
7 September 2023, 00:00 AM

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