Hossain Zillur Rahman

Bangladesh's primary education system must shift SLIP funding from reimbursements to advance payments for genuine decentralisation.

The removal of Ahsan H Mansur as Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor has been an entirely avoidable drama.

A lesson emerging from COP participation is that for advocacy to deliver results, it must be married to strategy.

Bangladesh passed multiple tests of its democratic credentials through the 13th parliamentary election on February 12.

For nearly 50 years, Bangladesh has been one of the world’s favourite outliers. Born in the trauma of 1971 with a shattered economy and a population of 75 million, the country was summarily dismissed as a “basket case.”

It has been a year since Bangladesh freed itself from the murderous clutches of a tyrannical regime that had made corruption the rule of business, extreme arrogance of power the norm, and brutal repression its operational style.

As Bangladesh seeks to recalibrate its path in the aftermath of recent upheavals, the time is ripe to revisit an oft-invoked but under-examined agenda: institutional reform. Institutions are crucial to understand, as they are foundational for governance, transformation, and economic development.

The evolution of poverty research in Bangladesh has been an intellectual adventure.