We have adjusted to the curtailment of our liberties and discrimination in various forms—social, racial, ethnic, immigrant and so on.
Since Margaret Thatcher, we have had that problem in spades in the UK; blame for failure is bounced around between ministries and private contractors, between policy ideas and those responsible for implementation.
Stephen was more than a university teacher and researcher.
It is always good to seek peace rather than war, but the question is always, at what price and in whose interests?
How one develop can enough economic knowledge to understand political choices.
Even before the recent change of government in the UK, its role in Bangladesh has been shifting, especially bilaterally.
The government needs to set in place irreversible principles and practices that constrain arbitrary power in the future leading to the misuse of popular consent.
The depeasantisation thesis associated with Kautsky and popularised as “the Agrarian Question” needs to be subtly understood in Bangladesh.
Why we should care about remote others in time and space.
While the term ‘development’ can have many meanings, poverty remains a necessary issue for policy and action.
Just don’t expect too much from development NGOs in shifting the needle on the dial.
"Policy" as an institutional process is a nebulous mixture of concepts, thinking, ideology, values, pragmatism, interests and, hopefully, evidence: prior, during, and afterwards.
In material development terms Bangladesh has changed a lot, and has made much progress since I first arrived just over 44 years ago.
