Every year, as the moon of Ramadan wanes, a singular question occupies the minds of Bangladesh's salaried workforce: where does the Eid bonus go? Across sectors from banking and civil service to garments, telecoms, and NGOs, millions of jobholders receive their festival bonus and must decide, often

Human beings can't live without being affected by its surrounding, people, institutions, culture, technology, beliefs, and religious values; the practices, habits, and norms they inherit are derived from these. The information we learn, practice, and hold to thrive comes from institutions, religi

Economic development and good governance depend not merely on the availability of resources, but on how efficiently, transparently, and effectively those resources are planned, managed, and utilized. In this context, the three Ps-Public Financial Management (PFM), Project Management (PM), and Publ

Political division is a universal reality. No country in the world is free from differences in ideology, beliefs, or political allegiance. Even in the most established democracies, allegations of vote rigging, manipulation, and misinformation surface from time to time. Yet, despite these imperfect

There was a time when tender notices occupied a large section of daily newspapers. During my student life, I used to read newspapers regularly, but I used to skip the tender notices because the technical terms and instructions in them were too difficult to understand. These long advertisements wer

The Government of Bangladesh introduced electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) system to digitise public procurement processes. The formal inauguration of the e-GP portal took place on June 2, 2011, marking the beginning of digitisation in public procurement. The Bangladesh Public Procurement Aut

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the demand for accountants and auditors is projected to grow by 7% from 2020 to 2030. The number of new job openings has been around 1,35,000 each year, on average, over the past decade. Bangladesh's government has initiated the establishment of 100 s

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