Open Budget Survey 2017: Where does Bangladesh stand?

The question of how public resources are mobilised and spent is critical to the relationship between citizens and the state. The government is always expected to respond to this question by ensuring greater transparency in its financial management. However, the state of transparency in government finances differs remarkably across the...

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Saving the shrinking middle

There was a time when many regarded being in the middle of the distribution - socially, politically, and in the business world - as a favourable, stabilising, and desirable outcome. From the anchoring role in society of the middle class to the agility and resilience of mid-size firms, the middle...

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Adieu, Rahman Jahangir

Rahman Jahangir's death might have struck many in the journo community as something out of the blue. This could have been because they weren't aware of what he had been through for around past six months - living with the deadliest lung cancer. For some one like Rahman Jahangir who...

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