Commentary & opinion
Commentary on governance, democracy, security and Bangladesh’s place in the world — first published by CGS, or republished from other outlets and clearly labelled.
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Authoritarianism, left unchecked to shape the public discourse, can self-propel and legitimise itself, diverting the blame for a degraded public health system from the state onto…
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Economic turmoil and government measures to curb the coronavirus have dealt a cruel blow to workers in the informal sector, where layoffs go unrecorded and people…
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Behind Trump and Modi’s contrasting approaches, there is a similarity. Both are playing to their strengths Arghya Sengupta United States (US) President Donald Trump repeatedly said…
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Joe Emersberger examines the media's response to Washington's clamping down on Venezuela and Iran in times of global pandemic. Joe Emersberger An Associated Press article (New…
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What can the government do to soften the blow? Mamun Rashid No crisis in recent memory has been more universally felt than the Covid-19. Developing or…
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The Bangladeshi government’s $8 billion stimulus package, about 2.5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), primarily focuses on industries, particularly export-oriented ones. In doing…
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As authorities across the region struggle to contain the pandemic with curfews and lockdowns, few have thought of the knock-on effects. For many women, more time…
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Possible post-pandemic scenarios for China’s long-term foreign policy strategy. Plamen Tonchev The COVID-19 pandemic is increasingly looking like a watershed, one of those moments in history…
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Challenges to the higher education system: Is academia still relevant? Shlomo Biderman The novel coronavirus presents the higher education system with a challenge it has never…
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Non-standard crisis requires non-standard measures. About a third of all jobs in the country are at risk, and the main task in the labor market is…
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The coronavirus pandemic and a chapter of history that should have expired long ago. Ben Rhodes IN A LARGE WINDOWLESS ROOM in the bowels of the…
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Developing countries face a double whammy, the health impact of the virus and their inability to pump out central bank money. Industrialised countries must come to…
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Philip G Altbach and Hans de Wit In the midst of crisis, with the scope and outcomes largely unclear, it is too early to accurately predict…
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In theory there is no reason to fear a food crisis like the one that shook the world in 2007 But fear itself, spread by the…
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CHARLES Darwin is a name Pakistanis are taught to hate. School teachers and university professors tasked with teaching his evolutionary theory usually skip the subject or,…
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Nearly 40 years ago, when I wrote Sleepers, Wake!, I was arguing for a more rational, evidence-based approach to long-term problems of society, economy, environment, work,…
