What six South Asian economists taught the world about development
21 August 2026
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Can Dhaka’s Pink Bus break a four-decade pattern?
20 August 2026
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Kazi Khalid Ashraf & Adnan Zillur Morshed on Dhaka's Future / What kind of city do we really want?
19 August 2026
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Is Bangladesh’s garment industry ready for the next shock?
19 August 2026
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Can pink buses make travels safer for women?
18 August 2026
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Chained majesties: The plight of captive elephants in Bangladesh
15 August 2026
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Why Bangladesh needs mandatory warning labels on packaged foods
13 August 2026
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Is Bangladesh going the wrong way on AI?
13 August 2026
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Bangladesh and the question of indigenous peoples
13 August 2026
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The invisible crisis: Why Bangladesh must wake up to its data vulnerability
12 August 2026
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What six South Asian economists taught the world about development
Six South Asian economists reshaped development thinking, challenging conventional ideas on growth, inequality, poverty, justice, and human wellbeing.
21 August 2026
Can Dhaka’s Pink Bus break a four-decade pattern?
Dhaka’s women-only Pink Bus fails to solve public transport safety; upgrading the general bus network remains essential.
20 August 2026
What kind of city do we really want?
Every year, nearly half a million people move to Dhaka, a population equivalent to an entire city like Cumilla or Mymensingh. As that pressure mounts, how much longer can Dhaka keep absorbing it?
19 August 2026
Is Bangladesh’s garment industry ready for the next shock?
Bangladesh’s RMG sector remains highly vulnerable to global economic shocks, such as US trade tariffs, demanding diversification.
19 August 2026
Can pink buses make travels safer for women?
Dhaka and Delhi must move beyond superficial pink buses to ensure genuinely safe public transport for women.
18 August 2026
Chained majesties: The plight of captive elephants in Bangladesh
Bangladesh must urgently end captive elephant exploitation and implement comprehensive rehabilitation systems to ensure true animal welfare.
15 August 2026
Why Bangladesh needs mandatory warning labels on packaged foods
Mandatory front-of-pack labelling can help Bangladeshis identify unhealthy packaged foods and make informed choices to prevent non-communicable diseases.
13 August 2026
Is Bangladesh going the wrong way on AI?
To achieve technological independence, Bangladesh must prioritise global cloud access over merely building domestic AI data centres.
13 August 2026
Bangladesh and the question of indigenous peoples
True equal citizenship in Bangladesh requires constitutional recognition and distinct institutional arrangements for its diverse indigenous peoples.
13 August 2026
The invisible crisis: Why Bangladesh must wake up to its data vulnerability
Bangladesh’s fragile digital governance and frequent data breaches demand urgent operational reforms to protect citizens’ personal information.
12 August 2026
Bangladesh is getting dangerously hotter. Are we ready?
Extreme heat in Bangladesh is rapidly escalating into a severe public health emergency, demanding urgent climate adaptation.
11 August 2026
Why blaming Dhaka's bus drivers misses the real problem
Blaming bus drivers for Dhaka’s traffic chaos fundamentally overlooks systemic governance failures, poor vehicle safety, and exploitative wages.
10 August 2026
Why Dhaka's waterlogging crisis has little to do with heavy rain
Dhaka's severe waterlogging crisis stems from unplanned urbanisation and disrupted drainage systems rather than merely excessive rainfall.
8 August 2026
What Bangladesh and Tuvalu teach the world about climate justice
Bangladesh and Tuvalu expose severe climate justice failures, demanding immediate adaptation finance and accountability from developed nations.
6 August 2026
The history behind Bangladesh’s Bhasanchar project
Bhasanchar reflects a continuing colonial legacy in Bangladesh, utilising unstable land and displaced refugees to consolidate state power.
4 August 2026
Why Bangladesh's schools need financial autonomy
Bangladesh's primary education system must shift SLIP funding from reimbursements to advance payments for genuine decentralisation.
1 August 2026
What the water knows: The unmaking of Bangladesh's haors
Bangladesh's haor floods stem not merely from climate change, but from the systemic destruction of wetland ecology.
30 July 2026
Who writes the history of the July Uprising?
Analysing Bangladesh's July Uprising reveals how selective political memory threatens to erase Left politics from the history of protest.
29 July 2026
How violence against women is normalised in Bangladesh's chars
Floods reshape Bangladesh's chars, but women face another hidden crisis where violence becomes expected, normalised, and increasingly severe.
28 July 2026
Why Bangladesh must invest in community-led early childhood education
Bangladesh must prioritise community-led early childhood education like the Kajoli Model to build strong foundational literacy skills.
26 July 2026