This article raises four questions: what progress has been made to achieve millennium development goal 1 (MDG1) targets in Bangladesh? What are the reasons for success, if any? What challenges remain? And what more should be done? To examine these questions, this article assesses the progress of...

Bangladesh’s constant growth with an annual 6% plus Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for more than the last two decades and achievements in other socio-economic metrics in recent times is impressive and recognized by various global authoritative bodies. The extent of overwhelming economic ventures...

The non- charitable trust or purpose trust is a trust which is created neither for the benefit of a human beneficiary nor to serve any charitable purpose. Generally, this type of trust is invalid as it is in conflict with the principle that there should be a beneficiary. There are several...

The regional organization, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), was established in Dhaka on December 8, 1985. In the Organisation, there were initially seven-Member States that are mainly located in South Asia, i.e. Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and...

This report covers environment-related legal and other developments in Bangladesh for the year 2018. Even though the major focus of the year politically was on the general election held in December, the ruling party undertook several commendable initiatives on environmental affairs ranging from...

The objective of this chapter is to examine the use of cyber means to enforce unilateral coercive measures in international law. In doing so it will consider the relationship between sanction regimes and cyberwarfare, and what might influence the effectiveness of such measures. It will begin by...