Shumona Sharmin Sharna

Bangladesh is proving that industry can care, but fundamental challenges remain that must be addressed for true progress.

Bangladesh’s factories have long treated groundwater as a low-cost input. Depletion, pollution and delayed regulation are turning it into a threat to production.

Extreme heat is quietly eroding Bangladesh’s productivity. While workers continue to show up, the true economic cost is increasingly borne through slower output, rising health risks and losses that businesses rarely measure.

Bangladesh has proved it can build world-class green factories. The harder question is why the same logic has not reshaped the buildings where people live, work, study and seek healthcare.

Bangladesh’s garment scraps could cut import bills, create green jobs and strengthen export competitiveness — but only if jhut moves from opaque scrap trade to traceable industrial feedstock

Bangladesh’s workers fuel global supply chains, yet much of the value flows beyond its borders

As AI and automation reshape global work, Bangladesh must turn its labour advantage into a productivity advantage

As Bangladesh approaches a new fiscal cycle, policy shifts, productivity gains and private sector confidence will shape the next phase of growth.

Over decades, Bangladesh’s structural investment in women has translated into measurable economic strength at home and lessons for the world.

As climate extremes disrupt classrooms across Bangladesh, education emerges not just as a casualty — but as a critical solution for resilience, equity, and long-term climate action.

For Bangladesh, 2026 could become a hinge year if strengthening governance, productive capacity, and human capital translates into the everyday reliability its economy depends on.

As the US retreats and India’s transition slows, China’s clean-tech rise raises a crucial question: can it lead the next global decarbonisation shift?