Future Ready Bangladesh: AI Skills and Youth Employability in the Digital Economy
23 August 2026
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Roundtables
Strengthening Cyber Resilience for MSMEs: Tackling Financial Fraud and Improving Grievance Mechanisms
17 August 2026
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Roundtables
Public-Private Partnership for Hepatitis Elimination in Bangladesh
16 August 2026
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Roundtables
Role of Nutrition Entrepreneurs in Accelerating Nutrition-Sensitive Integration in Bangladesh
9 July 2026
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Roundtables
From challenge to choice: Strengthening Bangladesh’s Family Planning Program
29 June 2026
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Roundtables
Closing the Gap: Strengthening Women’s Voice In National and Local Elections
23 June 2026
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Roundtables
Ethical use of artificial intelligence in Bangladeshi news media
22 June 2026
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Roundtables
Budget 2026–27: Strengthening Investment in Social Sectors
1 June 2026
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Roundtables
Prospect of Digital Platforms in Getting Service-Related Information and Providing Feedback
Save the Children has been working all across the globe for the last 100 years to ensure the rights of the children.
6 December 2019
Realizing population goals: Translating strategies to actions
Bangladesh Population Policy 2012 has six objectives and 16 strategies, with most strategies having 10-12 sub-texts. Therefore, there are actually 75 strategies.
4 December 2019
Triggering digital transformation: Reducing operating cost and expanding customer base
We have been supporting various innovations for the last three to four years. We are now at a stage where many business models are generating useful information about how to help small businesses.
4 December 2019
The business partner of the future
Today, we are discussing the future of finance, and the ever-evolving job of a finance manager. We have to try to create pathways for future chief financial officers (CFOs) in the era of artificial intelligence to become business controllers, planning managers and heads.
3 December 2019
Use and misuse of defamation law and its impact on journalism
In a democratic society, we need defamation laws to protect individual reputation from false allegations. Unfortunately, in many cases, both in Bangladesh and abroad, this law is often misused to impose restrictions and curtail freedom of expression. It is high time we discussed how to prevent the misuse of this law.
25 November 2019
Investment in Skills in 8th Five-Year Plan
There is no alternative to skills training when it comes to utilising new technologies in skills development.
19 November 2019
Enabling fruits and vegetable export to improve farm income
Bangladesh has already achieved food security in staple crops like rice, potatoes, and vegetables. Bangladesh is the third largest growing vegetable producer and the tenth largest tropical fruit producer in the world.
19 November 2019
South Asia in a changing world
South Asia is a critical link to the rise of Asia and its position in the international system. With a population of 1.8 billion people, it houses one fourth of the global humanity.
18 November 2019
Alternative Credit Scoring: Collaterising Data for MSE Financing
The Business Finance for the Poor in Bangladesh (BFP-B) is a 25 million-pound programme to increase access to finance for micro and small enterprises. BFP-B has assisted financial sector regulators to develop regulation and common industry infrastructure that make
23 October 2019
A roadmap for sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis
The Daily Star in association with North South University (NSU) organised a roundtable titled “A roadmap for sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis” on September 24, 2019. Here we publish a summary of the discussion.
16 October 2019
Patterns and effects of climate change in the north-west Bangladesh and its policy implications
Bangladesh is one of the worst sufferers of climate change. The north-west part of Bangladesh has improved a lot in the last few years in terms of both poverty and employment but the adverse impacts of climate change are putting our progress at risk.
14 October 2019
Affordable homes for all
A comprehensive policy taking into account the interests of landowners, builders, financiers and prospective homeowners can give a boost to the housing sector and enable more people to own homes, said industry players and financiers yesterday.
12 October 2019
Bangladesh as the next destination: Deepening economic ties with Japan
Japan has been a trustworthy and dependable friend since the birth of Bangladesh. It gives Bangladesh immense pride and confidence
24 September 2019
Creating blended finance architecture for catalysing impact investment in Bangladesh
Over the last four years, BFP-B has made three investments in Alternative Investment Vehicles (AIV). We did this to find an alternative
1 September 2019
Role of family and religious values in preventing violent extremism
It’s been quite some time now since we have noticed the rise of militancy and violent extremism in the country. The Holey Artisan
26 August 2019
Realising the unfinished agenda of ICPD in Bangladesh
The 25th anniversary of the ICPD (International Conference on Population and Development) is a momentous occasion to assess what Bangladesh has done so far and what we need to do for the future regarding population issues. It seems that earlier, we were very intense on population
21 August 2019
Belt and Road Initiative: Perspective from Bangladesh
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a major undertaking. In the words of President Xi Jinping “This is the project of the century”. It
6 August 2019
Win back trust to thrive
Bangladesh’s financial sector is suffering from a crisis of trust among savers in the face of continued governance failure, said top
3 August 2019
Skills strategies for jobs
A central focus of BYLC’s work over the past decade has been in instilling values of public service in youth and equipping them with leadership skills. After having trained more than 4,000 youth, another major strand of our work now is in ensuring livelihood for them.
26 July 2019
People’s participation, democracy and local governance: Features of democracy in Switzerland and Bangladesh
Democracy is under a lot of pressure globally.
24 July 2019