Doing more for sustainable rural transformation

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman recently inaugurated the Khal Kata, or Canal Excavation Programme, promising to improve water flow, support farmers, and strengthen irrigation nationwide. This initiative reminds us of the widely popular canal excavation programme launched by his father, Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman, in the late 1970s, which boosted agricultural...

ZAKAT AS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE: Can It Enable Ultra-Poor Graduation?

Despite significant economic growth and declining national poverty rates, extreme poverty remains persistently concentrated among specific communities in Bangladesh. Nowhere is this paradox more visible than in Sonaimuri upazila of Noakhali, located in a district officially recorded as having one of the lowest poverty rates in the country, yet home...