What do young people from the countryside think about the past and present? In March, Oxfam Bangladesh organized focus group discussions with 46 rural young people in Bakerganj, Barisal, and Puthiya, Rajshahi, asking them about their lives and their futures. Almost all of them wanted to leave agriculture and the rural areas. One major reason cited was the stigma they …

Creating development pathways for alternative futures When Henry Kissinger infamously said in 1971 that Bangladesh would be a famine-prone “basket case,” he could not have predicted that less than 50 years later the country would have moved from the brink of starvation to being well on the way to middle-income status, and become a shining star for development success in …