Unfriendly Dhaka for the forgotten 10 percent
11 March 2015, 22:07 PM
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part-3)
A proposal for improving Dhaka's future transport scenario
11 March 2015, 22:01 PM
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part-3)
Low cost housing in Bangladesh
11 March 2015, 21:58 PM
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part-3)
Dhaka: The city of walls
11 March 2015, 21:57 PM
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part-3)
Ensuring quality in construction
11 March 2015, 21:52 PM
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part-3)
Challenges of real estate developers
11 March 2015, 21:52 PM
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part-3)
Why does infrastructure matter?
11 March 2015, 21:39 PM
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part-3)
Energy pricing dilemma and the culture of subsidy
11 March 2015, 21:37 PM
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part-3)
The startup culture
11 March 2015, 20:19 PM
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part-3)
Education, employment and human capital
11 March 2015, 20:19 PM
24th Anniversary of The Daily Star (Part-3)
Unfriendly Dhaka for the forgotten 10 percent
The population of Dhaka is growing by a little over four percent per year and stands in its wider metropolitan area at an
11 March 2015, 22:07 PM
A proposal for improving Dhaka's future transport scenario
Lately Dhaka's transport scenario has been deteriorating visibly under fast growing urbanisation, despite a number of transport
11 March 2015, 22:01 PM
Low cost housing in Bangladesh
Housing is a basic need for civilised living. In a developing country like Bangladesh –housing inadequacies and backlog have been
11 March 2015, 21:58 PM
Dhaka: The city of walls
There are more or less walls in every city, but maybe there are more of them in this city – Dhaka. Whoever – be it the higher,
11 March 2015, 21:57 PM
Ensuring quality in construction
There is a construction boom going on in the country at the moment. Residential houses are being built, office and factory buildings
11 March 2015, 21:52 PM
Challenges of real estate developers
Residence is one of the basic needs of human beings. The right to live in one's own is a fundamental right of people and it is internationally recognised.
11 March 2015, 21:52 PM
Why does infrastructure matter?
Ensuring better infrastructure ranked the top priority in the Dhaka Apparel Summit 2014 to reach USD 50 billion apparel export target by 2021.
11 March 2015, 21:39 PM
Energy pricing dilemma and the culture of subsidy
Proper price and market structure is the key for ensuring the uninterrupted quality supply of any product.
11 March 2015, 21:37 PM
The startup culture
The number of university graduates who are frustrated with the job market and the stagnating situation they find themselves in is
11 March 2015, 20:19 PM
Education, employment and human capital
Irrespective of the level of development of a country, economic growth is essential for raising the levels of employment and income.
11 March 2015, 20:19 PM
Viva la carts
In the last couple of years, we've seen our society go through some major changes. From changing laws for our “own benefit” to trying
11 March 2015, 20:19 PM
The year of the youth
The year 2014 was meant to be a year of change for Bangladesh. But that promise had been left behind and when seen in a political
11 March 2015, 20:19 PM
In need of a new breed of diplomats
Economic diplomacy is inseparable from political diplomacy. In the broader context of foreign policy and diplomacy the objectives are
11 March 2015, 20:19 PM
Crossing barriers and lighting the future
From the very beginning of our lives it is drilled into our brains that children are the future, and education is what lights up the path
11 March 2015, 20:19 PM
Desh Garments – A pioneer’s gift to his country
When people talk about Bangladesh, they usually refer to cyclones and floods. But then when people want to talk about the positive things that have come out of this country, they talk about the Ready Made Garment Industry.
11 March 2015, 19:57 PM
Reflections on the NGO sector
The recent decades has seen something of an upsurge in the interest and attention on the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Bangladesh.
11 March 2015, 19:53 PM
Corruption and political instability: A threat to security?
“Under former President Moi, his Kalenjin tribesmen ate. Now it's our turn to eat," so said politicians and civil servants belonging to the then newly elected Kenyan president Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe in January 2003 to John Githongo, Minister for Governance and Ethics.
11 March 2015, 19:46 PM
Local government and economic development
Local Government Institutions (LGIs), Local Administration (LA) and local Community Based Organisations (CBOs) evolved, emerged and developed throughout the globe as manifestations of a historical conjuncture particularly situated at time and space.
11 March 2015, 19:42 PM
Environmental governance and growth
In the last two decades, the economy of Bangladesh has grown at nearly six percent per annum.
11 March 2015, 19:40 PM
Poverty alleviation: Where we go from here?
Bangladesh has earned considerable reputation for achieving remarkable success in reducing poverty not merely in its income/consumption dimension,
11 March 2015, 19:32 PM