A new deal for Bangladesh-UK partnership in uncertain times
Even before the recent change of government in the UK, its role in Bangladesh has been shifting, especially bilaterally.
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A blueprint for reforms: Tackling corruption, inequality, and autocracy
The government needs to set in place irreversible principles and practices that constrain arbitrary power in the future leading to the misuse of popular consent.
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Surrealism and dark arts: Leaving citizens behind
Under the Tories, the emperor lost its clothes—if it ever had any. Its international rhetoric of “leave no one behind” is a hollow slogan at home.
3m ago
A review of My Golden Bengal: A serious book for serious times
A remarkable gathering of informants have been interviewed in recent years by René Holenstein, a former ambassador for Switzerland, for 'My Golden Bengal: Views and Voices from Civil Society.'
4m ago
Is the family farm disappearing?
The depeasantisation thesis associated with Kautsky and popularised as “the Agrarian Question” needs to be subtly understood in Bangladesh.
5m ago
Dealing with climate change in a capitalist world
Why we should care about remote others in time and space.
5m ago
The lingering trails of poverty in Bangladesh
While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.
7m ago
Development NGOs: Arm of the state or part of civil society?
Just don’t expect too much from development NGOs in shifting the needle on the dial.
8m ago
October 28, 2024
A new deal for Bangladesh-UK partnership in uncertain times
Even before the recent change of government in the UK, its role in Bangladesh has been shifting, especially bilaterally.
September 21, 2024
A blueprint for reforms: Tackling corruption, inequality, and autocracy
The government needs to set in place irreversible principles and practices that constrain arbitrary power in the future leading to the misuse of popular consent.
August 2, 2024
Surrealism and dark arts: Leaving citizens behind
Under the Tories, the emperor lost its clothes—if it ever had any. Its international rhetoric of “leave no one behind” is a hollow slogan at home.
June 12, 2024
A review of My Golden Bengal: A serious book for serious times
A remarkable gathering of informants have been interviewed in recent years by René Holenstein, a former ambassador for Switzerland, for 'My Golden Bengal: Views and Voices from Civil Society.'
May 24, 2024
Is the family farm disappearing?
The depeasantisation thesis associated with Kautsky and popularised as “the Agrarian Question” needs to be subtly understood in Bangladesh.
May 11, 2024
Dealing with climate change in a capitalist world
Why we should care about remote others in time and space.
April 4, 2024
The lingering trails of poverty in Bangladesh
While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.
March 5, 2024
Development NGOs: Arm of the state or part of civil society?
Just don’t expect too much from development NGOs in shifting the needle on the dial.
February 22, 2024
Evidence to policy. Truth to power.
"Policy" as an institutional process is a nebulous mixture of concepts, thinking, ideology, values, pragmatism, interests and, hopefully, evidence: prior, during, and afterwards.
October 26, 2018
Extreme poverty: Special measures or solved by growth?
In material development terms Bangladesh has changed a lot, and has made much progress since I first arrived just over 44 years ago.
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