economic development
Sorely lagging behind in research
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has rightly stressed the need for research and development in order to maintain Bangladesh's current
Bangladesh in the post-industrial world
Bangladesh's economic performance over the last decade has garnered praise from the international community. Multilateral
Sorely lagging behind in research
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has rightly stressed the need for research and development in order to maintain Bangladesh's current
Research can help keep up GDP growth
Scientists and researchers have responsibilities to find out sustainable ways to maintain Bangladesh's current economic and GDP growth, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said yesterday.
What the rising GDP and per capita income are not telling us
On April 4, 2019, the World Bank presented its latest economic forecast that Bangladesh's economy will grow at 7.3 percent in the
MAKING BANGLADESH AN ATTRACTIVE FDI DESTINATION : Challenges and options
FDIs have two competing interests: economic development for host states and profit maximisation for foreign investors. It is the lure
The unseen link between sexual violence and economic development
This year's Independence Day has come with a new sense of pride and the hope of a promising future. Our country's move from low-income country (LIC) status to lower-middle-income country (LMIC), as per the World Bank's classification, has created hopes that Bangladesh's economic development will go a long way in the upcoming years.
Ecological havoc in Dhaka
Dhaka is faced with many direct threats to biodiversity with accelerating economic development, growing population, land grabbing, congested housing, tree felling, and vehicles emitting toxic fumes leading to extreme pollution and poor quality of life.
Poor focus on nutrition hurts development
Nutrition is the foundation of human health, education and economic development, and yet it gets poor attention pulling back nations
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.
Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100: Not the most practical proposal
Bangladesh is considered to be extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In an attempt to provide safety and security...