Red July, one year on: The fight for unity, dignity, and justice must continue
It has been a year since Bangladesh freed itself from the murderous clutches of a tyrannical regime that had made corruption the rule of business, extreme arrogance of power the norm, and brutal repression its operational style.
4 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Beyond development paradox & unnayan without democracy
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.
16 May 2025, 18:00 PM
The evolution of poverty research in Bangladesh
The evolution of poverty research in Bangladesh has been an intellectual adventure.
6 April 2025, 06:00 AM
UHC Forum Health Debates / SWAp’s effectiveness for Bangladesh’s health sector
Exploring alternatives to SWAp in Bangladesh’s health sector is a pressing discussion.
12 December 2024, 06:00 AM
Don’t shrink social safety net even during austerity
No matter how tight the budget is, the social safety net sector has to be given its due importance.
6 June 2024, 11:00 AM
The fight against child marriage needs a new narrative
The latest official data paints an alarming picture of 41.6 percent of girls married under 18 and 8.2 percent married under the lower age of 15.
6 May 2024, 02:00 AM
The contradiction between economic policy and practices
How much can declared policy intentions be taken at face value when simultaneous administrative and political steps signal different intentions?
16 February 2024, 02:00 AM
All about fair and unfair elections
The current political uncertainties work out, the road to a fair election appears neither certain nor easy.
3 November 2023, 02:00 AM
Red July, one year on: The fight for unity, dignity, and justice must continue
It has been a year since Bangladesh freed itself from the murderous clutches of a tyrannical regime that had made corruption the rule of business, extreme arrogance of power the norm, and brutal repression its operational style.
4 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Beyond development paradox & unnayan without democracy
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.
16 May 2025, 18:00 PM
The evolution of poverty research in Bangladesh
The evolution of poverty research in Bangladesh has been an intellectual adventure.
6 April 2025, 06:00 AM
SWAp’s effectiveness for Bangladesh’s health sector
Exploring alternatives to SWAp in Bangladesh’s health sector is a pressing discussion.
12 December 2024, 06:00 AM
Don’t shrink social safety net even during austerity
No matter how tight the budget is, the social safety net sector has to be given its due importance.
6 June 2024, 11:00 AM
The fight against child marriage needs a new narrative
The latest official data paints an alarming picture of 41.6 percent of girls married under 18 and 8.2 percent married under the lower age of 15.
6 May 2024, 02:00 AM
The contradiction between economic policy and practices
How much can declared policy intentions be taken at face value when simultaneous administrative and political steps signal different intentions?
16 February 2024, 02:00 AM
All about fair and unfair elections
The current political uncertainties work out, the road to a fair election appears neither certain nor easy.
3 November 2023, 02:00 AM
Is Bangladesh at a triple crossroad?
Bangladesh has always battled and progressed through crises. But what future awaits us?
18 August 2023, 02:00 AM
How much do we know about our emerging ‘new rural’?
“New rural” will be a critical player in the next chapter of Bangladesh’s transformation.
10 February 2023, 17:00 PM
‘Louha tribhuj’ and the political economy of development
A political economy lens is needed to understand the current situation of Bangladesh.
29 September 2022, 16:42 PM
Akbar Ali Khan: Life of service, voice of conscience
His death is a loss for the nation.
9 September 2022, 13:00 PM
The challenge of democratising the ‘middle income’ dream
Fifty years ago, the dominant concern of citizens and observers alike was about the economic future of newly independent Bangladesh.
1 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Development and political leadership: China’s Wang Huning and new perspectives
We have all become accustomed to the economic story of China, its astonishing success in reducing poverty, its emergence as the economic powerhouse of the 21st century and its infrastructural ambitions expressed through the Belt and Road Initiative.
4 August 2021, 18:00 PM
When entrepreneurship can be a public good
My friend Fouzul Kabir Khan’s recent book, “Win: How Public Entrepreneurship Can Transform the Developing World”, has brought back an issue critical to the development discourse in these pandemic times.
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh economy through a “turning point’ lens
The economy of Bangladesh has come a long way in the past 50 years. The enduring image of Bangladesh earlier was that of a disaster victim.
25 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Opinion: A time for truths
It is 58 days since the first Covid-19 infection was recorded in Bangladesh. February now feels like a distant memory, even early March.
4 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Women must have the right to choose
First there was Mexico City in 1984. Then there was Cairo in 1994. Now there is Nairobi in November 2019. The global community has dealt with the issue of population in these mega-conclaves.
11 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Poverty’s Third Frontier
When Bangladesh gained independence nearly five decades ago, poverty was the default condition for over 80 percent of the population.
26 October 2019, 18:00 PM
The truths about the budget that we fail to see
The recently-concluded budget season had to play second fiddle to the cricket season. And why not? Cricket is about passion, budget rarely so. The new finance minister has a foot in both of these worlds holding, as he does, the Comilla Victorians franchise. Mr Mustafa Kamal
9 July 2019, 18:00 PM