Selim Jahan

The “digital divide” is a way to describe the inequality in the online community.

Over the years, one of the social protection instruments that has been piloted in many countries is the universal basic income.

November 25 highlights the global issue of violence against women and its impact.

The October 30 budget was presented against the backdrop of certain predictions.

Bangladesh’s economic growth slowed down due to global uncertainties and domestic political instability and natural disasters.

Financial contributions to the UN by big and powerful developing countries like China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria and the oil-rich countries of the Middle East must increase so that the developing world has a solid voice.

Sri Lanka has recently elected Anura Kumara Dissanayaka as its new president.

Issues of fundamental human rights violations, the destruction of social justice, and unjust biases remain central to inequalities and discrimination.

What needs to be done in today’s Bangladesh, as the country is trying to move forward?

Inequalities occur not only in income, but also in non-income dimensions

According to latest reports, the Labour Party has won a landslide victory with 412 seats.

In general, five issues need to be borne in mind when it comes to bank mergers in Bangladesh.

People are the real wealth of a nation. The fundamental objective of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy a long, healthy, and creative life. Human development is simply defined as a process of enlarging choices and creating opportunities for everyone.

Dr Selim Jahan lays out all the facts about Bangladesh's debt financing situation.

Debt servicing has become a rising concern for developing countries in recent times.

“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber, and as deadly as a hitman”—these were the words of Ronald Reagan during his campaign for the US presidency at the beginning of 1980s.

Analytically speaking, if economic growth is to be inclusive, it must fulfil three mutually synergetic criteria: it must be sustained and pro-poor; it must ensure equity in resource availability, access to basic social services and income distribution; and it must be accompanied by productive employment.

It was a bright sunny morning in Vientiane, where I was visiting during the first week of December 2017.

The Taliban have taken over Afghanistan—that is yesterday’s news. That thousands of distressed Afghans were crowding Kabul Airport to try and escape the country has also become an old fact.

Afghanistan is now under the reins of the Taliban. No, they have not come to power through the ballot box, rather they have accomplished it by implementing the famous saying of Mao Zedong: “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Afghanistan is now a Shariah-based Islamic state.