Governance & environmentalism

As we begin to associate Rohingya refugees with environmental degradation we might still not be interpreting the full picture properly. When they arrived our sympathies led us to blame the Myanmar military; yet, when the environmental costs begin soaring, our fingers have turned to pointing them as villains, beginning a...

Emphasising ultra-poor graduation programme

Poverty reduction initiatives of Bangladesh contributed to fulfilling all three eligibility criteria for graduation from the UN's Least Developed Countries (LDC) list. In spite of achieving significant progress in poverty reduction, 41 per cent and 16 per cent of the population were marked as 'poor' and 'severe poor' respectively by...