Thoughts

Thoughts

The Family Card enables people to access financial assistance through bank accounts or mobile financial services. Graphics: TBS

Making grievance redress systems work in new social protection initiatives

As Bangladesh rolls out new welfare initiatives, the effectiveness of grievance redress systems will determine whether these programmes remain merely administrative exercises or evolve into truly...

Infographic: TBS

July Charter, presidential order and constitutional conundrum

Sketch: TBS

Digitising rickshaws can unlock financial inclusion for millions

Collage: TBS

Rising rays of solidarity: Japan's comrades in Bangladesh's Liberation War

A woman nebulises a child undergoing treatment for measles at a hospital. Photo: TBS

Protecting our children from Measles: Leadership, facts, and decisive action

Illustration: TBS

Empowering women in an underserved Bangladesh

A rules-based monetary policy could be the answer for price stability

A rules-based monetary policy could be the answer for price stability

Why Bangladesh’s farmers do not benefit much from smart farming

Why Bangladesh’s farmers do not benefit much from smart farming

Saarc country flags. Photo: Reuters

South Asia’s mirror: What the region teaches us about the art of diplomacy

Illustration: Ashrafun Naher Ananna/TBS Creative

When a strait shakes a region: How the Western Asia crisis is rippling across the Asia-Pacific region

For decades, young people have been the driving force behind Bangladesh’s political turning points. This graffiti on BUET's wall was photographed on 21 August 2024. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain

Why Bangladesh must institutionalise youth representation in governance

In Bangladesh, organic farming is an emerging and sustainable system. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain 

Commercial potential of organic agriculture

Padma Bridge. File Photo: Mumit M/TBS

The projects we build and the system that breaks them