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Crossing barriers and lighting the future

From the very beginning of our lives it is drilled into our brains that children are the future, and education is what lights up the path
11 March 2015

The startup culture

The number of university graduates who are frustrated with the job market and the stagnating situation they find themselves in is
11 March 2015

Education, employment and human capital

Irrespective of the level of development of a country, economic growth is essential for raising the levels of employment and income.
11 March 2015

Desh Garments – A pioneer’s gift to his country

When people talk about Bangladesh, they usually refer to cyclones and floods. But then when people want to talk about the positive things that have come out of this country, they talk about the Ready Made Garment Industry.
11 March 2015

Reflections on the NGO sector

The recent decades has seen something of an upsurge in the interest and attention on the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Bangladesh.
11 March 2015

Corruption and political instability: A threat to security?

“Under former President Moi, his Kalenjin tribesmen ate. Now it's our turn to eat," so said politicians and civil servants belonging to the then newly elected Kenyan president Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe in January 2003 to John Githongo, Minister for Governance and Ethics.
11 March 2015

Local government and economic development

Local Government Institutions (LGIs), Local Administration (LA) and local Community Based Organisations (CBOs) evolved, emerged and developed throughout the globe as manifestations of a historical conjuncture particularly situated at time and space.
11 March 2015

Environmental governance and growth

In the last two decades, the economy of Bangladesh has grown at nearly six percent per annum.
11 March 2015

Poverty alleviation: Where we go from here?

Bangladesh has earned considerable reputation for achieving remarkable success in reducing poverty not merely in its income/consumption dimension,
11 March 2015

Women's unpaid contribution to economy

Awomen's worth in the society is likely to be recognised once their contribution to the economy in both paid and unpaid works is valued.
11 March 2015

Drivers of the rural economy

Since 1988, I have been generating and maintaining a longitudinal data set on the operation of the rural economy in Bangladesh through repeated household surveys in 62 randomly selected villages.
11 March 2015

Armchair activism

Was 2014 the year technology and social media took over activism?
11 March 2015

Why you should care about Fair Trade

Have you ever thought about where the products you use everyday come from?
11 March 2015

At your service

Many businesses forget that human interaction is the foundation of all institutions. Individuals make a family unit which collectively creates a neighbourhood which then builds a town and so on and so forth till nations come into being forming the world that we inhabit today.
11 March 2015

Targeting higher hanging fruits

BANGLADESH'S recent socio-economic progress has attracted wide attention globally. In an article, the editor of The Telegraph, India reflected on how Bangladesh has weathered all odds and is now able to proudly move forward. He compared Bangladesh's achievements to that of his native state, West Bengal and lamented how the latter was falling behind.
11 March 2015

Health sector demonstrates the incredible power of the "system"

Abook published a decade ago by the United Nations (2005) titled “Public Enterprises: Unresolved challenges and new opportunities” stated that the performance of public enterprises is determined 80 percent by the system, 16 percent by the leadership and only four percent by rest of the staff.
11 March 2015

Education policy: Challenges of implementation

First of all it must be admitted that we have been able to formulate and work out an Education Policy after decades of polemics.
11 March 2015

Paving the way to future?

In an article for The Daily Star, I had written:“A new National Education Policy was announced by the government in June 2010.
11 March 2015

Higher education and a riveting rumination

Again loomed the political bedlams and remained education in the gloom and doldrums.
11 March 2015

Consequences of capital flight

Aconsensus cannot be reached on what precisely constitutes capital flight.
11 March 2015