Editor's Note

This issue is the second instalment of our silver jubilee special supplement, titled Strengthening Pillars of Economy. The instalment contains articles under the sub-sections: Challenges and Responses; Real Estate and Export; and Tourism.

On the auspicious occasion of the silver jubilee celebrations of The Daily Star's journey, we launched this special supplement series, themed On High Road to Progress. The first part of the series was published yesterday.

Eminent professionals, experts, planners and practitioners in different spheres of economy, enterprise and development have enriched the supplements with their inputs, analyses and insightful contributions. We are grateful to them for making it possible for us to put together a body of text that is well-researched, lively and forward-looking in the values it adds to the publications.

Be sure to follow up on the subsequent instalments titled, Services and Quality of Life; Climate, Women and Sustainable Development; and Way Forward respectively which are set to appear on February 3, 4 and 5.

Mahfuz Anam
Editor and Publisher