Falling fertility and fading opportunities pushing Bangladesh to a demographic crossroads
The dividend is not automatic—it requires a healthy, educated, and productively employed workforce.
20 August 2025, 04:00 AM
20 August 2025, 04:00 AM
Epidemiological transition in South Asia
South Asia’s double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases
26 June 2025, 07:01 AM
26 June 2025, 07:01 AM
Bold, pragmatic measures can revitalise Bangladesh’s health sector
Investment in the health sector must unquestionably be enhanced with the objective of major overhauling.
7 November 2024, 03:00 AM
7 November 2024, 03:00 AM
We should be worried about the present fertility trends
The population size will likely stabilise at around 240-250 million, if fertility can be brought down soon to below replacement level.
20 May 2024, 02:00 AM
20 May 2024, 02:00 AM
Bangladesh isn’t doing enough to cash in on its demographic dividend
The growth in Bangladesh's share of employment in industry is below the growth of other Asian economies at similar stages.
24 February 2024, 14:00 PM
24 February 2024, 14:00 PM
Worrying features of our labour market
Addressing key bottlenecks is essential to fully utilise our labour force.
21 January 2024, 01:00 AM
21 January 2024, 01:00 AM
How Bangladesh transformed from its challenging beginning into a middle-income country
On the occasion of the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence and the 100th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM
How will the global economic downturn affect the Bangladesh economy?
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented economic loss, which was more severe in the first half of 2020 than was earlier anticipated.
7 July 2020, 18:00 PM
7 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Can the health sector withstand the threat of Covid-19?
Bangladesh is celebrated as a development success in South Asia and has outperformed many of its neighbours on social development indicators.
7 June 2020, 18:00 PM
We need a national action plan to contain the Covid-19 fallout
Like most countries, Bangladesh is going through an unprecedented crisis following the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of both health and economic outcomes, with increasing number of infected cases and deaths from Covid-19, and severe economic losses in terms of production, exports and remittances, resulting in considerable unemployment, loss of income and rising poverty.
14 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Addressing underutilisation of labour
Bangladesh has been making steady economic progress over the past decades. But Bangladesh will not be able to achieve eight percent GDP growth rate by 2020 unless major concerns relating to its labour force and employment are adequately addressed.
17 June 2017, 18:00 PM