Tackling outbreak of measles
Bangladesh's regression from a successful child vaccination country has been marked by the current outbreak of measles which has claimed 41 lives of children until Sunday last. The country launched its Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) as early as 1974 and has successfully eradicated polio and tetanus. Until its outbreak...
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Hollowing out the economy by illicit fund outflow
Few statistics capture the scale of Bangladesh's economic vulnerability as starkly as this: $68.3bn illicitly transferred abroad in less than a decade. The figure, estimated by Global Financial Integrity, is not merely an accounting anomaly or a technical irregularity in trade data. It is a systemic haemorrhage -- one that...
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Unending death march of overseas job-seekers
A report goes like this: at least 22 migrants died in a boat tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea as the rubber boat carrying them left Tobruk, a port city in eastern Libya, on March 21 bound for Greece. But the boat lost its way and was afloat at sea for...
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Reducing horizontal inequalities
Bangladesh has achieved remarkable economic growth over the past few decades. While these positive statistics reflect the country's achievements, a persistent issue continues to receive insufficient attention-horizontal inequality. This concept refers to disparities or unequal access to opportunities among different social, regional, or gender groups.In Bangladesh, the gap between rural...
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Youth trapped in reels
We live in a busy digital world. Screens are everywhere. They connect us easily, but they also steal our peace. Slowly, we are losing ourselves to our phones.Social media was meant to bring us together. Now, it often keeps us apart. Families sit in the same room but do not...
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