Barkat-e-Khuda

The dividend is not automatic—it requires a healthy, educated, and productively employed workforce.

South Asia’s double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases

Investment in the health sector must unquestionably be enhanced with the objective of major overhauling.

The population size will likely stabilise at around 240-250 million, if fertility can be brought down soon to below replacement level.

The growth in Bangladesh's share of employment in industry is below the growth of other Asian economies at similar stages.

Addressing key bottlenecks is essential to fully utilise our labour force.

On the occasion of the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence and the 100th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented economic loss, which was more severe in the first half of 2020 than was earlier anticipated.

Bangladesh is celebrated as a development success in South Asia and has outperformed many of its neighbours on social development indicators.

Like most countries, Bangladesh is going through an unprecedented crisis following the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of both health and economic outcomes, with increasing number of infected cases and deaths from Covid-19, and severe economic losses in terms of production, exports and remittances, resulting in considerable unemployment, loss of income and rising poverty.

Bangladesh has been making steady economic progress over the past decades. But Bangladesh will not be able to achieve eight percent GDP growth rate by 2020 unless major concerns relating to its labour force and employment are adequately addressed.