Rehman Sobhan | The Daily Star

  • Rehman Sobhan

    The writer is an eminent economist and founder of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).

  • Good night, sweet prince

    The passing of Anisuzzaman has taken from our midst one more close friend and comrade from the generation which participated in the struggle for national liberation and held steadfast to its values.

  • Sir Fazle Hasan Abed: A tribute to an innovator and implementer

    I had my first encounter with Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1971 in Oxford. Abed called to inform me on the efforts by him and his group in London in support of Bangladesh’s liberation struggle.

  • The challenge of inequality - An agenda for action

    It is only when the poor and other excluded sections of the population are sitting in the representative institutions of the state, in local elective bodies as well as in Parliament, that they will be able to ensure that their particular concerns are mainstreamed within the policymaking process.

  • Reimagining South Asia in 2030

    The future of South Asia, as a community does not look too promising in the wake of the postponement of the SAARC summit. As a person who has been engaged over 40 years in civil society initiatives to recreate a South Asian community, I have witnessed a number of such fluctuations in the fortunes of the SAARC process.

  • A tribute to a champion of the deprived

    I can think of few people who have done more for the world's deprived population than Fazle Hasan Abed.
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