Good Governance aims to contribute to overall development of a country. Since independence, the attainment of good governance has been a far cry. A number of constraints and challenges stand as barriers for establishing good governance. But the political and bureaucratic segments of the society can play an effective role. Governance has become a popular, if not trendy concept in much of the political, development and academic debate. In the second half of the 1980s as the cold war thawing the issue of governance of international organizations became a matter of serious and high level consideration, though it is rather an old concept as human civilization. It was used in French as “governance” in the fourteenth century, meaning ‘royal officers’. Ideas about ‘governance’ now appear in many contexts: as ‘corporate’ governance, ‘global’ governance ‘national’ governance and ‘local’ governance or simply ‘good’ governance refers to the act of governing in a wide sense and also ‘governance’ means the process of decision are implemented (or not implemented). Governance as an analytical perspective is still emerging and there are contending views surrounding the concept. Continue Reading »
Price hike is a common phenomenon in Bangladesh. In Ramadan it becomes worse than the rest of the times of the year. Nowadays, life is becoming much worse day by day because of the high prices of essentials where most of the people earn a fixed income. People face a serious problem in balancing all spheres of their life as they are to spend more amount of money on essentials. The sufferings of the low wage-earners are beyond description. 
Reforms…
Democracy in the making is always a messy affair. Until democratic institutions are fully established and people’s psyche has been fully molded to democratic morals and standards, the society remain in fluid form. Meanwhile, anti-social elements try to take undue advantage of the situation and cost of the country is its stability, prosperity and integrity. Pakistan is passing through this critical phase of its life. In the last sixty years, we have seen a constant tug of war between the Islamists and the so-called secular elements of society regarding the ideology of Pakistan. The warring camps have shown no meeting ground; one asking for theocracy and the other demanding complete separation of religion from the statecraft. The rise of violence, rather terrorism as a tool in advancing political objectives is phenomenal. Although there isn’t anything new in it but for Pakistan’s nascent democracy it poses the gravest challenge. The rise of obscurantism and instrumental use of Islam is eating out at the very heart of Pakistan ideology. Currently Pakistan is paying dearly in men and material in Swat valley for the ill-thought, ill conceived and rash policies of its erstwhile military dictators. 
No nation can remain aloof in the age of globalization. It must go forward with any gloabalised network for the greater interest of socio-economic development of the country. All transactions of trade, investment, and export-import have undeniably depended on the complex web of communication and transport network. Bangladesh with a long tale of mystification recently has decided to join with the grand Asian Highway system. The network of Asian Highway, known as the Great Asian Highway, is a set-up of 141,000 kilometers of standardized roadways crisscrossing 32 Asian countries. Being a cooperative project among countries of Asia and Europe and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) with an intent to advance the highway systems in Asia, it is one among the three pillars of Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development (ALTID) project endorsed by the ESCAP at its forty-eighth session in 1992. This $44 billion AH network was initiated in 1959 in order to promote the development of international road transport in the region. A major share of the funding comes from the advanced capitalist countries as well as international agencies such as the Asian Development Bank. The project is programmed for winding up in 2010. A total of US$26 billion has already been invested in the improvement and upgrading of the Asian Highway network. However, there is still a shortfall of US$18 billion. UNESCAP secretariat is now working with its member countries to identify financial sources for the development of the network to improve their road transport capacity and efficiency. 
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Bangladesh has always attached immense importance to Thailand, the emerging economic tiger and a prime investment paradise of Asia. Since the inception of Thailand’s Look West policy, bilateral relations between two countries has deepened and endured. Closer ties of friendship and constructive engagement in economic and security cooperation made Thailand a time tested and reliable partner of Bangladesh. Official visit of President Zia to Thailand in 1978 and Prime Minister Thaksin Sinawatra to Bangladesh in 2004 and high-level Ministerial exchange consolidated political as well as diplomatic ties between these two BIMSTEC countries. 
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