INCOME inequality between the top richest and bottom poorest is phenomenally widening in the country since the independence. The top five percent of Bangladesh’s income...
Martin Khor :In 2017, Donald Trump dominated the year by using US clout to change many aspects of global relations, and not for the better.What...
Pierre-Yves Cousteau :Marine plastic is a subject that is close to my heart. My father explored the world for 50 years and documented the health...
Lorenzo Jiménez de Luis :A few years ago, someone shared a video with me that deeply impacted me. It was called “The Girl Effect”. In...
Involve youths in productive activities :Our country has been going through a golden age of demographic dividend since 2014. It is a period when the...
ONE of the country’s leading economist along with a number of young researchers have unveiled a report – identifying political patronage and lack of ethics...
FEMALE migrant workers from South Asian countries to the Middle East are often underpaid and overworked, besides facing physical violence and sexual abuse. A joint...
Azeem Ibrahim :On Nov. 23, the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement to return the Rohingya refugees – more than 600,000 people who...
Daniel Waldron and Zehra Shabbir :Without reliable access to water, human beings cannot survive. Yet 3 out of 10 people do not have a safely...
Erik Larsson :Only a few millimeters of corrugated metal keeps us apart from the advancing dusk. Inside the shack, the family has strung cardboard boxes...
Corruption bars national growth :According to the United Nation’s World Economic Situation and Prospects 2018 report, Bangladesh is set to become one of the fastest...
THE fresh spate of question leaks that have so far blemished our public and private examinations have now started taking place within the sphere of...
