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Hossain Zillur Rahman

The writer is executive chairman of Power and Participation Research Centre and former adviser to the caretaker government.

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The real crisis at Bangladesh Bank: The mandate, not the résumé

3 March 2026, 00:00 AM
The removal of Ahsan H Mansur as Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor has been an entirely avoidable drama.
3 March 2026, 00:00 AM
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Climate actions need less talk, more work

25 February 2026, 00:00 AM
A lesson emerging from COP participation is that for advocacy to deliver results, it must be married to strategy.
25 February 2026, 00:00 AM
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A six-point strategic memo to the new government

18 February 2026, 00:16 AM
Bangladesh passed multiple tests of its democratic credentials through the 13th parliamentary election on February 12.
18 February 2026, 00:16 AM
Bangladesh Economic Challenges 2026

Bangladesh’s ‘miracle’ running out of time?

15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
For nearly 50 years, Bangladesh has been one of the world’s favourite outliers. Born in the trauma of 1971 with a shattered economy and a population of 75 million, the country was summarily dismissed as a “basket case.”
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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Red July, one year on: The fight for unity, dignity, and justice must continue

4 August 2025, 18:00 PM
It has been a year since Bangladesh freed itself from the murderous clutches of a tyrannical regime that had made corruption the rule of business, extreme arrogance of power the norm, and brutal repression its operational style.
4 August 2025, 18:00 PM
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Beyond development paradox & unnayan without democracy

16 May 2025, 18:00 PM
As Bangladesh seeks to recalibrate its path in the aftermath of recent upheavals, the time is ripe to revisit an oft-invoked but under-examined agenda: institutional reform. Institutions are crucial to understand, as they are foundational for governance, transformation, and economic development.
16 May 2025, 18:00 PM
Urban poverty

The evolution of poverty research in Bangladesh

6 April 2025, 06:00 AM
The evolution of poverty research in Bangladesh has been an intellectual adventure.
6 April 2025, 06:00 AM
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UHC Forum Health Debates / SWAp’s effectiveness for Bangladesh’s health sector

12 December 2024, 06:00 AM
Exploring alternatives to SWAp in Bangladesh’s health sector is a pressing discussion.
12 December 2024, 06:00 AM
Universal Health Coverage Day

Health challenges are more complex than ever

Though billed as a successor to the widely-known Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the new global goals — SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals — push humanity's ambitions much further and much wider.
11 December 2016, 18:00 PM
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REPORT CARD ON MR. MUHITH

AL'S affable finance minister is a lucky man having done the national budget more number of times than any other finance minister.
7 July 2015, 18:00 PM
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