Remembering Mahbub ul Haq: A pioneer of human development ideas
21 July 2026, 00:02 AM
With regard to the notion of human development, Mahbub used to stress three fundamental points.
21 July 2026, 00:02 AM
Big Picture / The long transformation of rural Bangladesh
13 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Rabindranath once said, “The relationship between the village and the city should be like that between the inner house and the outer house of a home.
13 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Reading Nazrul in an age of inequality
24 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is widely known as the “Rebel Poet”, but he was also a profound “Poet of Equality”. Nazrul’s ideas about equality emerged from the realities of his own life.
24 May 2026, 00:00 AM
The other side of the Eid-ul-Azha economy
22 May 2026, 12:00 PM
Eid-ul-Azha is, without a doubt, a festival of joy. It is also at the centre of a wide range of economic activities, i.e. the demand and supply of sacrificial animals, various rituals associated with the sacrifice itself, a seasonal leather market driven by the animal hides produced, Eid shopping, etc.
22 May 2026, 12:00 PM
Tagore’s radical vision for rural Bengal
7 May 2026, 12:43 PM
Rabindranath pointed to one particular path for rural advancement: the strategy of a cooperative approach.
7 May 2026, 12:43 PM
Who is left behind?
28 April 2026, 11:16 AM
Universal human development requires dismantling systemic barriers and aligning policy with the 2030 Agenda for global inclusion.
28 April 2026, 11:16 AM
Turning youth into our greatest economic strength — Can we?
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
The greatest wealth of a nation is neither its geographical size, nor its natural resources, but its skilled young human resources.
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
How interlinked crises are driving a more unequal and unstable world
26 November 2025, 05:00 AM
All these phenomena not only impact the environmental sustainability of our planet, but also affect the global inequality and instability.
26 November 2025, 05:00 AM
A case of laudable progress
The 2018 update on the global human development indices and indicators was released on September 14. Covering 189 countries of the world, the update has revealed for these countries the levels of human development in different dimensions, their progress, the inequalities in human development achievements and the extent and nature of deprivations.
15 September 2018, 18:00 PM
RIP to GDP? Not So Fast
Recently, David Pilling had a write-up entitled “Do we need to say RIP (Rest in Peace) to GDP?” The write-up draws on his latest book The Growth Delusion on which he recently spoke at the Oxford Literary Festival.
7 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Counting what counts in development
To most people, “development” is best measured by the quantity of change – like gains in average income, life expectancy, or years spent in school. The Human Development Index (HDI), a composite measure of national progress that my office at the United Nations Development Programme oversees, combines all three statistics to rank countries relative to one another.
17 September 2017, 18:00 PM