Weekly Bangladesh Policy Outlook: Analysis, Truth, Debate.
Bangladesh stands at a critical juncture in its urban governance. With over 23,688 tons of municipal solid waste generated daily across urban centers and waste volumes doubling every fifteen years over the past three decades, the country can no longer afford to treat waste management as an afterthought. The evolution of waste management technology in…
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Bangladesh is a nation defined by water. More than seven hundred rivers thread across its territory, the Bay of Bengal borders its south, and the world’s largest river delta shapes its very geography. Yet for decades, the cities built atop this vast water network have treated water as a threat to be managed away rather…
Dhaka floods after thirty to forty millimetres of rain. A capital of over twenty million people, built on the world’s largest delta, submerges under the modest downpour that any functioning monsoon city should absorb without incident. This is not an act of nature. It is the accumulated consequence of a century and a half of…
Dhaka is one of the fastest-growing megacities in the world, and one of the most structurally precarious. As the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) continues to oversee the planning and construction governance of Bangladesh’s capital, the question of whether its residential and commercial building policies are fit for purpose has become a matter not merely of…
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