The Oniket Bulletin Archives - Page 24 of 26

From Field to Market: The Future of Agribusiness in Bangladesh

May 30, 2026May 30, 2026 editor No Comments

Bangladesh’s agricultural economy stands at an inflection point. For decades, the sector has been understood primarily through the lens of food security (e.g. rice self-sufficiency, flood-resistant crop varieties, smallholder support) rather than through the lens of commercial value creation. That framing is rapidly becoming inadequate. As Bangladesh’s middle class expands, as urbanisation accelerates, and as…

Agriculture

Defensive in Arithmetic, Ambitious in Reform: Rethinking Bangladesh’s FY2026-27 Budget

May 30, 2026May 31, 2026 editor No Comments

Relief versus Ambition: Reframing the Budget Debate The debate around Bangladesh’s FY2026-27 budget has been framed around a difficult question: should the next budget focus on relief rather than ambition? In the present context, this is not a conservative argument. It reflects an economy facing inflation, fragile confidence, weak revenue mobilisation, financial-sector stress, energy uncertainty…

Economy & Policy Governance

Degrees Without Direction: Addressing the Graduate Skill Gap in Bangladesh

May 30, 2026May 30, 2026 editor No Comments

Bangladesh produces hundreds of thousands of universities graduates every year. It does not, by most employer accounts, produce nearly enough job-ready professionals. The distance between these two facts represents one of the most consequential economic inefficiencies the country faces, i.e a systemic skill gap that wastes human capital, depresses wages, prolongs youth unemployment, and constrains…

Education

Second Chance: Jute’s Present Crisis and Future Promise in Bangladesh

May 30, 2026May 30, 2026 editor No Comments

For most of the twentieth century, jute was Bangladesh’s identity crop. The golden fibre built the foreign exchange reserves of undivided Bengal, financed the Pakistani state’s infrastructure ambitions, and gave the new nation of Bangladesh whatever economic foundation it inherited in 1971. That era of dominance is long past. Synthetic substitutes, changing global packaging markets,…

Economy & Policy Governance

From Wetland Fragility to Systemic Risk: Rethinking Bangladesh’s Haor Crisis

May 30, 2026May 31, 2026 editor No Comments

The unfolding crisis in Bangladesh’s haor region is not just another episode in the country’s long history of floods, it is a warning signal of a deeper structural failure in development strategy. What appears as a localised agricultural disaster is a systemic shock to national food security, rural livelihoods, and macroeconomic stability. The haor basin produces…

Agriculture

A Media Moment to Remember: Bangladesh’s Public Press and the 2026 General Election

May 30, 2026May 30, 2026 editor No Comments

National elections represent the ultimate stress test for any country’s media ecosystem. They demand accuracy under pressure, fairness across competing interests, and the courage to inform rather than merely entertain. By these standards, Bangladesh’s public media outlets, both digital and print, performed remarkably well during the 2026 general election, showcasing a level of maturity and…

Media, Publishing & Digital Dissemination

The Present and Future of Space Research in Bangladesh

May 30, 2026May 30, 2026 editor No Comments

When Bangladesh launched the Bangabandhu-1 satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in May 2018, it joined a relatively small club of nations that own and operate geostationary communications satellites. It was a landmark moment, and it was celebrated as such. But a single commercial communications satellite, managed by the Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Limited…

Science, Technology & Innovation

Government Pay Scales, Corruption, and the Case for Reform in Bangladesh

May 30, 2026May 30, 2026 editor No Comments

Every Bangladeshi who has registered a land deed, filed a tax return, cleared goods through customs, or sought a routine service at an upazila office knows the unspoken arithmetic: the official fee is what the form says; the actual cost includes additional payments to people who will otherwise find reasons to delay, misplace, or complicate….

Economy & Policy Governance