Weekly Bangladesh Policy Outlook: Analysis, Truth, Debate.
The first article in this series on health insurance could not cover every relevant issue and dimension of the subject. It is therefore necessary to examine the remaining questions in a second part. Why Is Private Wealth Bangladesh’s Invisible Health Insurance? This is one of the most concerning features of Bangladesh’s health economy. When no…
Without Pension Reform Alongside the Pay Scale, the Equation Remains Incomplete A government employee’s working life ends with retirement, but their expenses do not. In many cases, medical costs, medicines, dependent family members and the need for financial security increase with age. Therefore, pensions cannot be treated as a separate issue when discussing a new…
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Background On August 31, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) convened a national dialogue titled “e-Governance in Local Government Institutions: Present Status and the Way Forward.” The event brought together researchers, civil society representatives, government officials, and young citizens to examine how digital tools are reshaping local governance in Bangladesh, and to what extent they…
When Bill Gates told Reuters recently that no government on Earth is genuinely prepared for what artificial intelligence is poised to unleash on society, he wasn’t singling out any one nation for criticism. He was pointing to a structural truth that technologists in this space have long recognized: policy has spent years racing to keep…
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Reading for pleasure has been quietly disappearing from the daily lives of young people in Bangladesh. While literacy rates have improved an access to information has expanded, the habit of reading books, especially outside the classroom, has weakened considerably. Understanding why this is happening requires looking closely at both behavioral tendencies and deep-rooted cultural attitudes…
Bangladesh has long been celebrated for pulling itself from the brink of famine to near self-sufficiency in rice, but that achievement is now colliding with a harder question: can the country feed a population that keeps growing on a land base that keeps shrinking? How this question is resolved will influence Bangladesh’s progress toward its…
Wahidul Islam’s recent article in The Oniket Bulletin, ‘The Hidden Bottleneck: How Credit, Banking, and Legal Gaps Are Choking Bangladesh’s Gas Imports’, makes an important case that sovereign credit deterioration, banking weakness and gaps in trade-finance architecture have constrained Bangladesh’s ability to secure LNG.1 That diagnosis matters, but finance is one transmission mechanism within a…
Read More “Beyond the Financing Bottleneck: Reassessing Bangladesh’s 2026 Gas Security Crisis” »
Bangladesh’s leadership has positioned solar power as a key component of the nation’s energy strategy, promoting incentives for both rooftop and utility scale photovoltaic installations as part of a broader effort to strengthen energy security. This ambition is well supported by geographic and economic factors, but turning that potential into lasting, equitable benefit will take…
Read More “The Sun as Policy: Assessing Bangladesh’s Solar Incentive Push” »
Over the past few weeks, one headline has been dominating news publications across Bangladesh: “The World Bank has predicted job losses in Bangladesh induced from the war in the Middle East to climb up to 600,000, with 1.2 million fewer people escaping poverty”. While it has primarily been known through newspaper articles, the insights originate…
Bangladesh’s information space has undergone a marked transformation with the proliferation of self-styled news channels operating on YouTube, a great many of which function entirely outside any editorial standard, source verification process, or meaningful accountability structure. What was initially heralded as a democratization of media access, one that promised to lower barriers to entry and…
Read More “The Business of Deception: Unmoderated YouTube Channels and Bangladesh’s Trust Crisis” »
