Bangladesh has recorded another historically weak year in implementing its Annual Development Programme (ADP).

It is often the quietest policies that carry the loudest consequences.

Nobody questions the potential of Cox’s Bazar. Clearly, it can compete with any of the top-class beaches elsewhere. For that, the administrators need to think beyond immediate, narrow interests. They need to plan access roads despite local pressures.

We welcome the launch of the Farmers’ Card programme by the government, which is a timely and encouraging step towards providing the much-needed support to the millions of farmers in the country.

Money moves more quickly than ever in the modern world. However, not all money is what it seems or claims to be. While some subtly advance hidden interests and undermine accountability, others create opportunity, institutions, and trust.

Unfortunately, all the mechanisms meant to address corruption seem to have been weakened, if not completely destroyed, one after another in recent decades.

There's no alternative to committing to good governance

The good governance agenda has lost its label, but it lives on, and it has become an existential threat.

The key to the ACC’s effectiveness in delivering its mandate is independence, especially when setting the example that, in handling allegations of corruption, it is guided by equality before law, and not by the status or identity of the individual depending on their political, governmental, or other connections.

Says Meghna Bank MD and CEO Sohail RK Hussain

Bangladesh’s economic leadership must devote its integrity to ensuring quality growth along with lower income inequality.

Comprehensive reforms needed to boost investment, sustain growth

Bangladesh will not be able to sustain its development without participatory democracy and good governance, said a number of political analysts and economists yesterday.

On their first day in office, new cabinet members yesterday stressed on implementing their election manifesto in the next five years, including rooting out corruption and ensuring good governance at every level of the government.

Focusing on good governance, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday warned her new cabinet colleagues that they would be under her surveillance.

Strong governance is the key to planned urbanisation in Bangladesh, said urban experts from home and abroad at an international conference in Dhaka yesterday.

If we look at the growth pattern of Bangladesh from 1990, we discover two specific characteristics...

Good governance cannot be there if the government takes law in its hand to retain its existence somehow or other, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Chairperson Sultana Kamal says.

One of the fundamental prerequisites for good governance is the distinction between the party and the government. This stood blurred and now seems to be totally removed now.

THERE is a close link between economic growth, human development and good management of natural resources, mainly water bodies