good governance

Right to information takes centre stage in Indian elections

The Indian Supreme Court's recent decision on electoral bonds underline the importance of citizens' role in exercising their right to information as watchdogs of good governance.

Will ministers listen to the PM’s directives?

There's no alternative to committing to good governance

Good governance is a bad idea

The good governance agenda has lost its label, but it lives on, and it has become an existential threat.

IMF’s conditions on governance and corruption - rhetoric or reality?

The key to the ACC’s effectiveness in delivering its mandate is independence, especially when setting the example that, in handling allegations of corruption, it is guided by equality before law, and not by the status or identity of the individual depending on their political, governmental, or other connections.

Good corporate governance crucial for banks

Says Meghna Bank MD and CEO Sohail RK Hussain

Bangladesh can avoid the middle-income trap yet

Bangladesh’s economic leadership must devote its integrity to ensuring quality growth along with lower income inequality.

Banking sector holding the economy hostage

Comprehensive reforms needed to boost investment, sustain growth

Democracy, good governance first

Bangladesh will not be able to sustain its development without participatory democracy and good governance, said a number of political analysts and economists yesterday.

'Be careful'

Focusing on good governance, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday warned her new cabinet colleagues that they would be under her surveillance.

October 29, 2017
October 29, 2017

Get good governance

Strong governance is the key to planned urbanisation in Bangladesh, said urban experts from home and abroad at an international conference in Dhaka yesterday.

June 14, 2017
June 14, 2017

Can Bangladesh continue to grow without 'good governance'?

If we look at the growth pattern of Bangladesh from 1990, we discover two specific characteristics...

June 18, 2016
June 18, 2016

No good governance if govt takes law in hand: Sultana Kamal

Good governance cannot be there if the government takes law in its hand to retain its existence somehow or other, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Chairperson Sultana Kamal says.

November 6, 2015
November 6, 2015

Rajshahi University VC slammed

One of the fundamental prerequisites for good governance is the distinction between the party and the government. This stood blurred and now seems to be totally removed now.

April 18, 2015
April 18, 2015

Can elected mayors save the city's water bodies?

THERE is a close link between economic growth, human development and good management of natural resources, mainly water bodies

March 14, 2015
March 14, 2015

Rural women's double jeopardy

JUST how vulnerable the village women are to harassment, coercion and graft while seeking justice or claiming other entitlements has been brought to bold relief by a TIB study.

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