Art Small state relations: Bhutan and Bangladesh March 30, 2020 1 Image credit: Talakha Goemba by Nitasha Kaul Written by Nitasha Kaul and Sangay Khandu. Inter-state rivalries between bigger states like India and China or India…
Asia Claims of legality: The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 December 23, 2019 2 Image Credit: Rita Willaert/Assam /Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC 2.0. Written by Prasenjit Biswas. The full-scale, all-out ‘war of positions’ between Hindu right-wing politicians, left-wing…
Asia Bangladeshi queer utopia: How activists are reclaiming local narratives to empower the community November 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: UK celebrates ruling on Section 377 by British High Commission / Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. The current…
Asia View from Bangladesh October 25, 2019 0 Image Credit: Gary Todd/Flickr; Licence: Public Domain Written by Ikhtisad Ahmed On 7 October 2019, a student named Abrar Fahad was beaten to death in…
Asia Money politics and the structural power of business in the political economy of Bangladesh July 25, 2019 3 Written by Farid Uddin Ahmed. Image Credit: Bangladesh Bank by ASaber91/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Since the mid-1980s, money politics has emerged as a new but critical aspect of…
Bangladesh Towards a better performing and more ethical civil service in Bangladesh March 22, 2019 0 Written by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, Taiabur Rahman, Kazi Maruful Islam, Christian Schuster and Kim Sass Mikkelsen. Effective governance is essential for economic development and hence it…
Bangladesh The indigenous tribes of Bangladesh: small voices lost in the sea of frustration November 8, 2018 0 Written by Tanzia Amreen Haq. Bangladesh, with its broken electoral system, diminishing democracy and neglected human rights, lives in a state of violent peace. The…
Bangladesh Designing Better Financial Products for Low-Income Populations October 18, 2018 0 Written by Tasnuba Sinha Financial inclusion has accelerated globally in the past decade. Millions of people have now been brought into the formal financial system…
Bangladesh Balancing Development and Sustainability in Bangladesh – the challenging road ahead October 17, 2018 0 Written by Tanzia Amreen Haq A report conducted by New York-based research firm Wealth-X showed Bangladesh having the fastest rate of growth in the number…
Bangladesh Personal Take: Fictionalizing History, History as Fiction October 15, 2018 0 Written by Nadeem Zaman As a Bangladeshi I grew up on a steady diet of stories of the Bangladesh Liberation War 1971. As a Bangladeshi…