Rehman Sobhan

Challenges in building a reformed political order / Pathways to a new political order

The prospects for change are not without hope in Bangladesh.

Education system mirrors today’s divided society

Improving the quality of education requires not just financial resources but also strong political and governance commitment, said eminent economist Rehman Sobhan yesterday.

Bangladesh must adjust

Considering the current and upcoming international political context, Bangladesh needs to focus on improving bilateral trade relationships with a wide range of countries, noted economist Rehman Sobhan said yesterday.

High profitability lured businessmen to become MPs: Rehman Sobhan

Prof Sobhan made these remarks during a public lecture at the four-day annual conference organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) at Hotel Lakeshore in Gulshan today

Structural reforms needed to get rid of crony capitalism

All the reform commissions that have been set up might not be able to rid the country of crony capitalism without wholesale structural reforms, said Rehman Sobhan, chairman of the Centre for Policy Dialogue.

The state has been captured by a select few

Bangladesh’s banking sector is bearing the brunt of the political bias towards the wealthy and the influential, experts said.

A tribute to Professor Rehman Sobhan

Just a few days ago, we celebrated the 89th birthday of our country’s noted economist and public policy champion Professor Rehman Sobhan. Prof Sobhan is better known as one of the authors of the two-nation theory, which ultimately helped us form the philosophical base of an independent Banglades

EVENT REPORT / ‘Untranquil Recollections’: Revisiting the past with Professor Rehman Sobhan

On March 9, 2024, University Press Limited (UPL) hosted a discussion with Professor Rehman Sobhan, moderated by Dr Akhter Mahmood, on the two volumes of 'Untranquil Recollections'

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Rehman Sobhan’s recollections of the road he took towards December 16, 1971

The title of the first of Professor Rehman Sobhan’s two-part memoir suggests that it is about his “years of fulfilment”; the subject matter of its sequel therefore would be about the “untranquil” years that followed.

April 4, 2015
April 4, 2015

In conversation with Professor Rehman Sobhan

WHEN we request an interview with Professor Rehman Sobhan, he says he would get back to us after the final of the World Cup Cricket is over.

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