CPD
Provide digital cards to farmers: Speakers
Speakers on Monday urged the government to provide “digital cards for farmers” upgrading the current agriculture card to ensure that they get different services easily and in a transparent way.
‘Demand, supply need to be matched to ensure low-cost power, energy’
Bangladesh’s power and energy sector has now moved into the second generation of problems where challenges have shifted from concerns of electricity production to pricing and energy mix issues.
Bureaucratic inefficiency major stumbling block to doing business: Report
A report has identified inefficient government bureaucracy as the major stumbling block to doing business in Bangladesh.
Favouritism, political bias: Thousands left out of flood relief, Covid-19 incentive
Many real poor people and farmers missed out on flood relief and Covid-19 incentive due to favouritism based on kinship and political bias.
Govt stimulus packages fail to address jobs crisis, say experts
With the Covid-19 pandemic morphing into a major jobs crisis in Bangladesh, experts have claimed that the various stimulus packages offered by the government lack incentives for employers to sustain employment.
China sees more investment in Bangladesh's high-speed railway, telecom, blue economy
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Thursday expressed optimism over more investment cooperation with Bangladesh in high-tech fields such as 5G telecommunications, high-speed railway, aerospace, and blue economy.
Pay more attention to risk of loans: Speakers
Participants in a webinar on Tuesday urged the government to be more careful about the risk of loans as the trend of loans has gone up following the coronavirus pandemic, LDC graduation and SDGs indexes.
Enhance accountability for voluntary national reviews on SDGs: Speakers
Speakers in a webinar on Monday underscored the need for enhancing accountability at both national and international level for the voluntary national reviews (VNRs) on the SDGs.
Consider downward revision of power generation plan: CPD to govt
Local think-tank Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has suggested the government to go for a downward revision of the existing Power System Master Plan (PSMP) 2016 as the existing overcapacity of power generation stands at 37 percent.
Enhanced coordination required in relief distribution: Speakers
Discussants at a virtual sub-national dialogue on Tuesday said there is a need for increased collaboration among all to ensure effective distribution of the relief efforts undertaken by the government in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent flood situation in Rangpur district.