
Hossain Zillur Rahman
The writer is executive chairman of Power and Participation Research Centre and former adviser to the caretaker government.
The writer is executive chairman of Power and Participation Research Centre and former adviser to the caretaker government.
When Bangladesh gained independence nearly five decades ago, poverty was the default condition for over 80 percent of the population.
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...
Accelera-ting urbanisation is the defining story of contemporary Bangladesh. Projections show that by 2050 urban population will overtake rural population. As Bangladesh hurtles towards its urban...
In its 48th year, Bangladesh faces a new existential question to ponder. What now passes as “normal”?
Howsoever one tries to explain it, the death of Dia and Rajib, the two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College, on the Airport Road ten or so fateful days ago, can never be called an ...
Economic progress is meaningless if the people are not healthy enough to enjoy the progress. As Bangladesh pursues its dream of becoming a middle-income country, this dream must also be one of a...
Though billed as a successor to the widely-known Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the new global goals — SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals — push humanity's ambitions much further and...
AL'S affable finance minister is a lucky man having done the national budget more number of times than any other finance minister.