Implementing SDG 16 is a political rather than technical challenge
Louise Riis Andersen and Louise Andersen :The Sustainable Development Goals set an ambitious peace agenda. For the first time security and violence is included in...
Editorial
How developing countries are paying high price for global mineral boom
John Vidal :A 200ft deep pit gapes where three years ago stood a mountain. Fields where small farmers planted rice and grew fruit are now...
Financial literacy and its impact on inclusive finance
Dr. Atiur RahmanGovernor, Bangladesh Bank :Mainstreaming of inclusive, environmentally sustainable financing figure high in BB’s priority; and stocktaking of financial knowledge base of the target...
Coaching : The bane of our education system
ALTHOUGH it is illegal to coach in primary schools the tendency has increased after the introduction of the final examination. 86 percent of students in...
Enhancing productivity of informal sector actors of economy
ENGLISH dailies reported on how the informal sector of Bangladesh generates 89 percent of the country’s total employment, but unfortunately the sector’s contribution to our...
Promoting literacy on global scale
Catherine Cheney :As CEO of Worldreader, a nonprofit organization that brings digital books to low-income countries, David Risher pursues his passions for both reading and...
Protecting children and women against violence
Probir Bidhan :Recently, a number of rapes, especially several cases involving minors, have shocked Bangladesh. A 10-year-old indigenous (Garo) child was raped in the capital’s...
The long road toward consensus on safeguards
Protecting the poor and the environment is at the center of the work we do in our projects. The World Bank’s safeguard policies govern how...
Readers’ Forum
The threat of a nuke-fight :Nuclear energy is the most discussed word in the 21st century. There are many good aspects of it. However, it...
Improving institutional capacity important to proper use of dev. assistance in the pipeline
THE country’s development partners are promising on an average around $6 billion in loans every year to Bangladesh over the last few years, but it...
Let politicians face controversies but police can`t be controversial
THE Bangladeshi born UK citizen Touhidur Rahman who was reportedly arrested from the city’s Nilkhet area as the alleged financier of Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT),...
Does independent journalism have a future in the EU?
Kadrinka Kadrinova :This article was prompted by the closure on 1 August of the newspaper Presa, and Tema magazine. I had the pleasure to work...