What young people think, feel, and must do
Traditionally, war has been quantified in terms of obvious destruction: loss of territories, cities reduced to rubble, and soldiers killed in combat. Governments count victories and defeats through statistics and shifting borders. However, the underlying effects of contemporary war are most frequently immeasurable. Twenty-first-century conflicts are not merely military actions....
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BanglaBiz is rewriting the rules for Bangladesh's entrepreneurs
Imagine spending months running between government offices, submitting the same documents again and again to different agencies, only to be told you are missing one more signature from one more department. For generations of Bangladeshi entrepreneurs, that has not been a nightmare. It does not have to be any more....
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Education inequality and Bangladesh's incomplete transition from moral economy to political economy
Over the past few decades, Bangladesh has experienced multifaceted development due to expanded school enrolment, improved literacy rates, and substantial progress in gender parity in education. Still, the persistent problem of poor educational quality and inequitable access lies as a thorn in its development path. These educational inequalities have impeded...
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