Bangladesh Development

Expedite port city’s flood-control projects

Chattogram residents should not have to pay for execution failures
8 July 2026

Break the cycle of project delays

Investigate delays, cost hikes in all development projects
8 July 2026

Singapore in 10 years?: BIDA chairman’s optimism vs economic reality

Bangladesh need not be like Singapore right now. Rather, it needs to understand how a country like Vietnam has been accelerating its pace of development.
21 April 2025

Does continuity of a regime guarantee stability and development?

The test of a country’s stability is to what extent it can remain insensitive to any sort of change of government or leadership.
29 April 2024

Editor's Note

We are proud to present to you the third instalment of our five-part special supplement series on the occasion of The Daily Star’s 33rd anniversary.
19 February 2024

Bangabandhu tunnel comes with great promise

Can Bangladesh reap its many benefits?
29 October 2023

Mega projects alone can’t ensure true development

Development of the country is not possible through the implementation of mega projects alone and without the human resource properly developed, said a noted economist.
2 September 2023

How high up does the depravity go?

Corruption plaguing the Department of Youth Development
17 July 2023

Metro magic and the charms of development

Dhaka greeted the new year with the country’s first metro.
28 January 2023

Mahfuz Anam writes: What is the state of Awami League as a political party?

This election year, the question that will inevitably come to the fore is of how successful AL has been in keeping its promises.
5 January 2023

The unstoppable journey towards a Smart Bangladesh

The announcement of Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021 was proclaimed in 2009. 13 years later, keeping up with the growing global changes, the government aims to establish Smart Bangladesh - a developed and prosperous country by 2041 through the transition to a knowledge-based economy.
1 November 2022

New challenges facing five-year plan

Bangladesh will have to deal with the challenges related to the Covid-19 pandemic, graduation from the list of the least-developed country and climate change, and the barriers standing in the way of Sustainable Development Goals during the Eighth Five-Year Plan period. 
14 September 2022

“Bangladesh, with its challenges, can be a development model for African nations”

Name a nation where 44 percent of people live in extreme poverty, women have an average of 4.5 children, and the per capita income is less than $500? The answer -- Bangladesh around 1990.
29 July 2022

The Bridge on the River Padma

Our senior citizens with a taste for Hollywood and British classic films will perhaps remember where I have taken the title from.
27 June 2022

Be careful with ‘over-optimism’ for megaprojects

One important but oft-ignored thing is that design and implementation mistakes delay the revenue-generation phase of megaprojects.
31 May 2022

We need inclusive development

Watching TV talk shows nowadays has become tantamount to listening to people trumpeting development projects taken or being taken by the government.
25 February 2019

Accord, Alliance brought dramatic changes: Bernicat

Workplace safety in Bangladesh's garment sector has witnessed a dramatic transformation due to inspection and remediation by two
25 September 2018

Stable outlook for Bangladesh: Reports

Three global rating agencies have reaffirmed a stable economic outlook for Bangladesh, mostly for the strong economic growth and improvement in external profile.
24 July 2018

Bangladesh ranks 34 in Inclusive Development Index

Bangladesh has been ranked 34th in World Economic Forum’s Inclusive Development Index, way ahead of South Asian competitors India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
23 January 2018

WB forecasts 6.4pc growth

The World Bank has kept unchanged its growth forecast for Bangladesh at 6.4 percent for the current fiscal year, much lower than the
27 September 2017