Bangladesh need not be like Singapore right now. Rather, it needs to understand how a country like Vietnam has been accelerating its pace of development.

The test of a country’s stability is to what extent it can remain insensitive to any sort of change of government or leadership.

We are proud to present to you the third instalment of our five-part special supplement series on the occasion of The Daily Star’s 33rd anniversary.

Can Bangladesh reap its many benefits?

Development of the country is not possible through the implementation of mega projects alone and without the human resource properly developed, said a noted economist.

Corruption plaguing the Department of Youth Development

Dhaka greeted the new year with the country’s first metro.

This election year, the question that will inevitably come to the fore is of how successful AL has been in keeping its promises.

The announcement of Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021 was proclaimed in 2009. 13 years later, keeping up with the growing global changes, the government aims to establish Smart Bangladesh - a developed and prosperous country by 2041 through the transition to a knowledge-based economy.

Bangladesh will have to deal with the challenges related to the Covid-19 pandemic, graduation from the list of the least-developed country and climate change, and the barriers standing in the way of Sustainable Development Goals during the Eighth Five-Year Plan period. 

Name a nation where 44 percent of people live in extreme poverty, women have an average of 4.5 children, and the per capita income is less than $500? The answer -- Bangladesh around 1990.

Our senior citizens with a taste for Hollywood and British classic films will perhaps remember where I have taken the title from.

One important but oft-ignored thing is that design and implementation mistakes delay the revenue-generation phase of megaprojects.

Watching TV talk shows nowadays has become tantamount to listening to people trumpeting development projects taken or being taken by the government.

Workplace safety in Bangladesh's garment sector has witnessed a dramatic transformation due to inspection and remediation by two

Three global rating agencies have reaffirmed a stable economic outlook for Bangladesh, mostly for the strong economic growth and improvement in external profile.

Bangladesh has been ranked 34th in World Economic Forum’s Inclusive Development Index, way ahead of South Asian competitors India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

The World Bank has kept unchanged its growth forecast for Bangladesh at 6.4 percent for the current fiscal year, much lower than the

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issues a strong warning against trading of contraband "yaba tablets" in Cox's Bazar saying drug peddlers would be dealt with severely as they also earned a bad name for this southeastern sea resort district.

The World Bank (WB), at the end of April this year, had some very encouraging things to say about the Bangladesh economy.