Funding

Funding

NCP leaders at a press briefing in their party office at Banglamotor, Dhaka, on 7 March 2025. Photo: Md Belal Hossen/TBS

Financing NCP: Who are these affluent people?

“Crowdfunding” in this manner is a well-established method for the parties to collect “toll” in the name of donations from the so-called well-wishers. But we do not know what the well-wishers get...

Protesters at the USAID building, Washington, DC, February 3, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura

Trump's aid freeze sparks mayhem around the world

Illustration: TBS

Can our development sector sustain without foreign funding?

A view of the USAID building in Washington, DC, US, February 1, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon

Musk says he is working to shut down 'beyond repair' USAID

Ukrainian rescuers appear next to new equipment, which was provide by United States Agency for International Development, in Kyiv, Ukraine, 17 July 2023. Photo: REUTERS

Aid groups get blanket order to pause US-funded programmes as payments dry up

FILE PHOTO: The World Health Organization logo is pictured at the entrance of the WHO building, in Geneva, Switzerland, December 20, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

US to leave World Health Organization on 22 January 2026, says UN

File photo of workers at a readymade garment factory in Dhaka. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS

Textile millers urge cenbank steps to clear $44m payment stuck in banks

A view of the financial district of Pudong is reflected on a bus passing by, in Shanghai, China September 27, 2024. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo

China will sharply increase funding from treasury bonds to spur growth in 2025

Image: Duniya Jahan/ TBS Creative

No new mega projects, govt to prioritise foreign-funded ones

USAID signed a development agreement worth over $200 million with the interim government to support Bangladesh on Sunday (15 September). Photo: UNB

US funding to help Bangladesh advance inclusivity, equity and democracy: Embassy

File photo: Mumit M/TBS

Review underway to identify priority, unnecessary foreign-funded projects

Only 17 startups apply for govt’s sandbox scheme to avail tax benefits

Only 17 startups apply for govt’s sandbox scheme to avail tax benefits

Student protesters stage a pro-Palestinian rally at Sciences Po university in Paris. Photo: JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP

Top French university loses funding over pro-Palestinian protests