Bangladesh must shift from investment promotion to facilitation
21 October 2025, 03:00 AM
Despite substantial spending, many digitisation initiatives have turned into opportunities for rent-seeking rather than reform.
21 October 2025, 03:00 AM
Will an Upper House solve Bangladesh’s governance woes?
3 October 2025, 02:00 AM
Bicameralism and proportional representation are not the panacea to solve all our problems of abuse of power.
3 October 2025, 02:00 AM
Limiting majority power requires a watchdog, not bicameralism
26 September 2025, 02:00 AM
Bicameralism is unlikely to succeed without independent enforcement.
26 September 2025, 02:00 AM
How Bangladesh must navigate the US-led trade shift
16 July 2025, 03:00 AM
It is apprehended that the US’s high tariffs on major global exporters of agricultural products, raw materials, intermediate products and finished goods, such as Brazil, Canada, China and India, would make those products available at lower prices in non-US markets.
16 July 2025, 03:00 AM
Bangladesh's export dilemma post-transshipment ban
9 May 2025, 02:00 AM
Khondaker Golam Moazzem, research director at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), talks with Naznin Tithi of The Daily Star about India’s decision to revoke transshipment facility for Bangladesh and its implications.
9 May 2025, 02:00 AM
CPD’s budget recommendations / How the power and energy sector can come out of constant financial crunch
29 April 2025, 07:03 AM
The sector has faced prolonged financial losses, rising public debt, and increasing fiscal burdens.
29 April 2025, 07:03 AM
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty / Poverty reduction requires long-term solutions
17 October 2024, 02:00 AM
Governments tend to focus on immediate needs, but we also need to ensure that long-term poverty reduction efforts are being developed parallelly.
17 October 2024, 02:00 AM
2023 Integrated Energy & Power Master Plan: The numbers don’t add up
19 September 2024, 02:00 AM
In late November 2023, the Ministry of Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources unveiled the IEPMP.
19 September 2024, 02:00 AM
Think out of the box to breathe new life into dead jute mills
The government closed down 25 jute mills operated under the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) on July 1. It was one of the difficult political decisions taken by the ruling party since it formed the government in 2009. Such a decision hints at the major political shift of the ruling party – from promoting state-owned enterprise development towards private sector led enterprise development.
5 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Agriculture sector’s resilience on the wane: What to do?
The resilience of the domestic agriculture sector mainly of the crop sector appears to be in a weak state. Without proper policy intervention the pressure on the agriculture sector would increase further and would cause a number of challenges on food security for a large section of people in the coming months.
2 September 2020, 18:00 PM
What the power sector budget should look like during a pandemic
The budget for fiscal 2020-21 is said to be one of the most challenging financial bills in Bangladesh’s recent history.
16 July 2020, 18:00 PM