The gender gap BD's youth statistics cannot hide
Bangladesh's official jobless numbers look, on the surface, unremarkable. The youth unemployment rate stood at around 9.4 per cent in 2025, comfortably below the global average of nearly 16 per cent, according to World Bank data. Read in isolation, that figure suggests a country coping reasonably well with the pressure...
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North South University hosts Social Business Innovation Summit 2026
FE Youth DeskNorth South University (NSU) brought together policymakers, academics, entrepreneurs and social business practitioners from Bangladesh and abroad for the Social Business Innovation Summit 2026, held at the NSU Auditorium recently. The summit was organised by NSU's School of Business and Economics (SBE) in collaboration with the Yunus Centre,...
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Bangladeshi founders are quietly rerouting their fundraising maps towards the Gulf
For years, the default advice given to ambitious founders in Dhaka was to look east or west. Incorporate in Singapore, chase a Southeast Asian accelerator, pitch to funds hunting the region's next breakout company. That playbook is losing its shine, and the money is moving somewhere else.In 2025, startups across...
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BRAC University Business Club announces ADwiz 2.0
The BRAC University Business Club (BIZ BEE) has announced the second edition of ADwiz, its flagship inter-university advertising competition, inviting students from universities across Bangladesh to showcase their creativity, strategic thinking, and storytelling through real-world marketing challenges.Since its launch in 2017, ADwiz has established itself as a platform where aspiring...
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