The prospects for change are not without hope in Bangladesh.

Improving the quality of education requires not just financial resources but also strong political and governance commitment, said eminent economist Rehman Sobhan yesterday.

Considering the current and upcoming international political context, Bangladesh needs to focus on improving bilateral trade relationships with a wide range of countries, noted economist Rehman Sobhan said yesterday.

Prof Sobhan made these remarks during a public lecture at the four-day annual conference organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) at Hotel Lakeshore in Gulshan today

All the reform commissions that have been set up might not be able to rid the country of crony capitalism without wholesale structural reforms, said Rehman Sobhan, chairman of the Centre for Policy Dialogue.

Bangladesh’s banking sector is bearing the brunt of the political bias towards the wealthy and the influential, experts said.

Just a few days ago, we celebrated the 89th birthday of our country’s noted economist and public policy champion Professor Rehman Sobhan. Prof Sobhan is better known as one of the authors of the two-nation theory, which ultimately helped us form the philosophical base of an independent Banglades

On March 9, 2024, University Press Limited (UPL) hosted a discussion with Professor Rehman Sobhan, moderated by Dr Akhter Mahmood, on the two volumes of 'Untranquil Recollections'

The title of the first of Professor Rehman Sobhan’s two-part memoir suggests that it is about his “years of fulfilment”; the subject matter of its sequel therefore would be about the “untranquil” years that followed.

The second volume of Rehman Sobhan’s memoirs, Untranquil Recollections: Political Economy of Nation Building in Post-Liberation Bangladesh (University Press Limited, 2022) deals primarily with the years of 1972 to 1975,

WHEN we request an interview with Professor Rehman Sobhan, he says he would get back to us after the final of the World Cup Cricket is over.