good governance

We must distinguish between corrosive and constructive capital

Money moves more quickly than ever in the modern world. However, not all money is what it seems or claims to be. While some subtly advance hidden interests and undermine accountability, others create opportunity, institutions, and trust.

What options are left for us to fight unbridled corruption?

Unfortunately, all the mechanisms meant to address corruption seem to have been weakened, if not completely destroyed, one after another in recent decades.

Will ministers listen to the PM’s directives?

There's no alternative to committing to good governance

Good governance is a bad idea

The good governance agenda has lost its label, but it lives on, and it has become an existential threat.

IMF’s conditions on governance and corruption - rhetoric or reality?

The key to the ACC’s effectiveness in delivering its mandate is independence, especially when setting the example that, in handling allegations of corruption, it is guided by equality before law, and not by the status or identity of the individual depending on their political, governmental, or other connections.

Good corporate governance crucial for banks

Says Meghna Bank MD and CEO Sohail RK Hussain

Bangladesh can avoid the middle-income trap yet

Bangladesh’s economic leadership must devote its integrity to ensuring quality growth along with lower income inequality.

Banking sector holding the economy hostage

Comprehensive reforms needed to boost investment, sustain growth

Democracy, good governance first

Bangladesh will not be able to sustain its development without participatory democracy and good governance, said a number of political analysts and economists yesterday.

February 7, 2023
February 7, 2023

Bangladesh can avoid the middle-income trap yet

Bangladesh’s economic leadership must devote its integrity to ensuring quality growth along with lower income inequality.

September 30, 2022
September 30, 2022

Banking sector holding the economy hostage

Comprehensive reforms needed to boost investment, sustain growth

February 18, 2019
February 18, 2019

Democracy, good governance first

Bangladesh will not be able to sustain its development without participatory democracy and good governance, said a number of political analysts and economists yesterday.

January 9, 2019
January 9, 2019

Ministers pledge good governance

On their first day in office, new cabinet members yesterday stressed on implementing their election manifesto in the next five years, including rooting out corruption and ensuring good governance at every level of the government.

January 9, 2019
January 9, 2019

'Be careful'

Focusing on good governance, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday warned her new cabinet colleagues that they would be under her surveillance.

October 29, 2017
October 29, 2017

Get good governance

Strong governance is the key to planned urbanisation in Bangladesh, said urban experts from home and abroad at an international conference in Dhaka yesterday.

June 14, 2017
June 14, 2017

Can Bangladesh continue to grow without 'good governance'?

If we look at the growth pattern of Bangladesh from 1990, we discover two specific characteristics...

June 18, 2016
June 18, 2016

No good governance if govt takes law in hand: Sultana Kamal

Good governance cannot be there if the government takes law in its hand to retain its existence somehow or other, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Chairperson Sultana Kamal says.

November 6, 2015
November 6, 2015

Rajshahi University VC slammed

One of the fundamental prerequisites for good governance is the distinction between the party and the government. This stood blurred and now seems to be totally removed now.

April 18, 2015
April 18, 2015

Can elected mayors save the city's water bodies?

THERE is a close link between economic growth, human development and good management of natural resources, mainly water bodies