Bangladesh-A Developing Country

Center For Good Governance (Bangladesh)
A Non Partisan Research Center for awareness movement on good governance

Syed Ahsanul Alam(University of Chittagong)
Prof. Mahfuz R Chowdhury(Long island university, USA)
William Milam(A former US ambassador to Pakistan & Bangladesh)
Prof. Dr. Tofail Ahmed
Dr. Badiul Alam Majumdar
Economist Prof. Anisur Rahman
Prof. Sahidur Rahman
Dr. A.N.M. Waheeduzzaman (Prof. & chairman, Austin Peay State University, USA)
Dr. Abul Barkat
Nuruddin Mahmud Kamal
Dr. Mostafizur Rahman
Kudrat-E-Elahi
Anwarul Kabir
Dr. Abdul Momen(Boston, USA)
Taj Hasmi
BN Adhikary

DIG Of Police Chittagong Range
Bangladesh Government
BD Press Information
Dhaka City Corporation
Rajuk
Export Promotion Bureau
Parjatan Corporation
Bangladesh Parliament
Bangladesh Bank

Peoples opinion for good governance
Report of the national democratic institute
Declaration of human rights
Organization & good governance activist in Bangladesh
The constitution of Bangladesh
Good governance concept papers by Prof. Ahsanul Alam
The only website in Bangladesh to have more than thousand E-books
National parliament election(1991,1996,2006)
Bangladesh governance Report 2007

Center for economic and social justice
Political party development-NDI
Participatory action research (PAR)
Human rights in Bangladesh,2005
Concepts and status in Bangladesh(Bangladesh human rights network
Positive obligations of states and the protection of human rights - Interights
Commonwealth human rights advocacy
Human rights network in Bangladesh
Democratic government in Bangladesh - UNDP
Working to strengthen and expend democracy in Bangladesh - NDI
Advocating human rights in Bangladesh - Carter center

What is CGG?

Center for Good Governance (CGG) is a center for academic research on various development issues relating to Good Governance & reforms.
The CGG is a different kind of institution working independently from all kind of powers: political parties, lobbies and social forces. The actions and interventions of the Center are impartial, non-partisan. The CGG´s main objective is to create and disseminate knowledge and new ideas in order to implement the strategies of good governance that is democratic principles and processes which favor transparency, accountability, efficiency, the rule of law, people's participation and consensus in making economic, social and political choices. ....MORE

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By CGG chairman - Prof Syed Ahsanul Alam

Information highway has integrated the world in such a way that economy and business have become borderless. Existing governance skills and knowledge becomes absolute quickly, especially in the absence of e-governance. For economic development and to maintain competitive edge with the global changes, governance reform including e-governances should be the top priority to design the future of Bangladesh.... for more click here

By - Prof. Syed Ahsanul Alam, Chairman-CGG

In the recent years, Bangladesh made some progress in many areas of economic and social development such as maintaining macroeconomic stability, growth in exports and in remittances, increase in enrolment in primary education, improvements in female's education, reductions in infant and maternal mortality and improvement in women's empowerment. Yet there are growing concerns that Bangladesh 's development prospects are frustrated by bad governance. One does not need to go in the nitty gritty to understand how bad governance affected the economy. Experts tell us that two percent or more of the GDP is lost to corruption and bad governance. Bad governance results to huge loss in economic growth annually. Bad governance and corruption deter investment, waste national resources and disequate allocation and increase insecurity. Moreover, the poor suffer most from the consequences of bad governance and corruption. Amongst the major governance weakness: pervasive corruption, weak governance, absence of monitoring institutions seriously affects economic growth and poverty reduction in the country. Though the methodology used by Transparency International (TI) to measure corruption has been subject to many questions, yet holding the first position in Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 5 consecutive years has tarnished the image of Bangladesh .... for more click here

Proposed by Chairman of CGG

HUMAN DIGNITY AND HUMILIATION STUDIES (HDHS), are a network of concerned academics and practitioners. They are committed to reducing - and ultimately help eliminating - destructive disrespect and humiliating practices all over the world. Their work is inspired by universal values such as humanity, mutual respect, caring and compassion, and a sense of shared planetary rights and responsibilities.
They are first and foremost a global network of people with the aim of raising awareness and creating framings and visions that promote equal dignity for all. Their wish to fertilize and generate interdisciplinary research (both intra and inter culturally) and disseminate information aimed at enhancing awareness of human dignity. They also encourage the application of creative educational methods and strategies, as well as fertilize more to-the-point intervention projects and public policy planning. Thus they work in four ways, firstly as a global network, secondly in research, thirdly in education, and fourthly with intervention. They address all levels, micro, meso, and macro levels.... for more click here

By Hnble Chairman of CGG ( Center for Good Governance )

Corruption in its all shades and colour, is the illegal tool of accumulating illegal wealth depriving people which creates inequality and social injustice. Corruption destroys social order, rule of law and all good governance efforts. Corruption and the corrupts are the enemies of the people and the society in any country. That is why fighting corruption and installing honesty is a pre condition for good governance for ensuring human rights, human dignity, equality and social justice for better living condition of the majority of the suffering people of the developing nations...... for more click here

By Hnble Chairman of CGG ( Center for Good Governance )

Corruption in its all shades and color is the illegal tool of accumulating illegal wealth depriving a person which creates inequality and social injustice. Corruption destroys social order, rule of law and all good governance efforts. Corruption and the corrupts are the enemies of the people and the society in any country. That is why fighting corruption and installing honesty is a pre condition for good governance for ensuring human rights, human dignity, equality and social justice and better business environment.
Holding the first position in Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 5 consecutive years has tarnished the image of Bangladesh, and in such a situation majority of the citizens did not know what to do and how to start a fight against this man made tool of exploitation called corruption. Under the previous oppressive corrupt governance and social system conscious citizens attempted to raise voice against this evil through the media or different civil societies organizations. Today everybody including the Chairman Anti-Corruption Commission emphasizes on the reality of designing a collaborative strategy to limit this evil call corruption. The following nonviolent silent strategies may be used to curve down corrupt practices in every sector of Bangladesh.... for more click here

By The New Nation

WORLD Trade Organisation chief Pascal Lamy said the Doha Round of global trade talks are currently 'at a crossroads' and the G-4 major players need to play a constructive role to avoid a 'deep freeze' of the talks. 'Today the Doha Round is at a cross-road: the path toward success or the slow move toward a deep freeze,' the WTO chief told a meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council in Geneva as reported by Xinhua. Lamy said it was bad news that the G-4 players -- the United States, the European Union, Brazil and India -- recently failed to converge on key issues concerning agriculture substitutes, tariffs and industrial market access. WTO members have pledged to conclude these negotiations by the end of this year -- ahead of the start of an intense political process in the USA in 2008, which would be followed by changes in the European Parliament and in the European Commission in 2009. But if this is to be achieved, progress in agriculture subsidies and a tariff on agriculture and industrial tariffs is required now.... for more click here

By Md. Mansur Ahmed

October, 2005, Bangladesh completed preparing her awaited Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and started to implement .It is widely known that lack of good governance is one of the key causes of the failure of 'Structural Adjustment Policy', 'Enhanced Structural Adjustment Policy' and other major reform policies guided by donor agencies ( e.g. World Bank, IMF etc.).Good governance was originally articulated in a World Bank publication in 1989.Good governance is now increasingly used as a base for aid and loans by major donors and international financial institutions. There are many countries in the world that have the same resource base, but the degree of good governance makes the difference in case of growth and poverty reduction. Realizing the importance of good governance, Bangladesh has given the second most priority to good governance as a strategy to accelerate poverty reduction. .... for more click here

By Md. Abdus Sattar

It's sad that altogether a section of columnists with their mispic view come up with an extra interest to make someone he does not deserve this and by doing this they make them unnecessarily subject to criticism, Thus belittling their image indeed. The song is quite obsolete, still they don't hesitate focus on them to the detaste of readers which they create even by criticising other leader of national import. Yes, there was write-up in a vernacular national newspaper. The things highlighted were printed and reprinted throughout the last three decades that has smeared the contribution of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to a great extent..... for more click here

By The New Nation

THE overall management of the University of Dhaka, including the process of student enrollment in different departments have come under critical review following the detection of enrollment of some candidates in an irregular fashion. Unfortunately, some students were enrolled in different departments of the University by suppressing information about their qualifications. They were enrolled in the Departments of Political Science, International Relations, Chemistry and Business Administration. Some such students have been identified by the authority, which has cancelled the admission of seventy. More of such students admitted in an irregular fashion may be found, if the process of review of admission continues. Some of the students enrolled themselves in different departments for making political careers and did neither attend classes nor participated in examinations. They became student-leaders and worked as agents of political parties plus the governments that were in power from time to time.... click here for more

By The New Nation

BANGLADESH was considered to have attained self-sufficiency in food production some years ago. It was judged to be producing all or nearly all of its needs of the main staple, rice, from the year 2000. Food imports declined largely as a result and the food aid also dwindled down adding feathers to the cap of this country with a vast population which it could feed by its own effort.But this good performance in food production has been changing in recent years. For example, some quantities of foodgrains had to be imported during the last couple of years in the backdrop of gaps between production targets and actual yields. Thus, imports of wheat and rice ranging from ten to twelve lakh tons have been noted for some years. But in the last fiscal year, 2006-7, the food deficit was found to be specially higher. The deficit in Fy 06-07 was to the tune of some 45 lakh tons which is an unprecedented record of sorts pointing to the slipping performance in foodgrains production in the country.... for more click here

By Md. Masum Billah

The passage for plying rickshaw in the city streets is getting narrower day by day. Does it mean that we are heading towards development? Or does it show the real improvement of our traffic system? The answers will not be so straightforward and direct. The presence of rickshaw in our cities and towns is the genuine reality. It was the necessity of time to flood our cities and towns with rickshaws and again time may approach when the rickshaws will disappear. Now the question is whether we have reached that stage or time to keep the rickshaws in the museum or we are forcibly trying to make that situation at the cost of million's bread? By enforcing laws and threatening the rickshaw pullers, this grim reality cannot be denied. When traffic system will develop and people will have enough vehicles to reach their destinations, the slow moving vehicles like rickshaws will give salute to the cities. Things seem that rickshaws are made to give salute to the cities by force. ... for more click here

By Editorial Page

Many observers have suggested that the behavior of U.S. inflation has been changed by the "globalization" of the economy. In 2005, for example, The Economist declared that recent experience "makes a mockery of traditional economic models of inflation, which ignore globalization." According to such commentators, globalization has helped to reduce inflation in the recent past and will help it to remain low in the future.In Has Globalization Changed Inflation? NBER Research Associate Laurence Ball questions this view. He reviews theory and evidence on the behavior of U.S. inflation, and concludes that globalization has had little effect on the rate of inflation in the United States.... for more click here

By Rajendra Aneja

EVER since the Presidential race started in India, you have neither slept nor let me sleep peacefully. The whole night you keep tossing!" nagged Patricia. "This is a critical job," I told her, "and all types of names and controversies are cropping up." "So why do you lose sleep over it?" she queried. "Frankly, I have been wondering whether I should also throw my hat into the ring." Patricia did not smile. That would have been acceptable. She burst out into a wild laughter. "What you? The President?" she exclaimed incredulously. "Just because a newspaper prints your letters to the editor, that does not mean you can run India!" She placed her hand on her hips, looked me in the eye, and asked, "Fine, presuming that by some magic you get the job, what will you do?" I was caught. "I need some time to put my thoughts down," I responded. "See, as usual, ill-prepared!" she taunted.... fore more click here

By Editorial Page

THE initiative to form a National Security Council (NSC) as has been stated by the Law and Information Adviser on the other day will be welcomed by the people. This is for the reason that such councils are more the rule than exceptions in many otherwise democratically governed countries. The United States of America (USA) has its NSC. The elected US President and his cabinet colleagues, members of the two Houses of the legislature who are elected, all play important roles in law making and governing the USA in all respects. But notwithstanding their central roles in governance, the existence of a body to watch over governance of the USA in matters pertaining to its supreme security or national interests is permitted... fore more click here