Current Affairs

Corruption in Bangladesh: An Analytical Framework.
- Munir Zaman

Corruption occurs at the interface of public and private sector relations and is understood to mean an abuse of public authority for private benefit, be it acquisition of power or of profit. State authority thus plays a decisive role in the presence or absence of corruption.
It is a common knowledge among the members of the older generation in Bangladesh that corruption at high levels of political authorities as well as bureaucracy was limited or virtually inexistent. What went wrong with the exercise of state authority since then?
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Corruption & Power Politics
- Munir Zaman

During the Awami League rule in the nineties there was pervasive corruption at different levels of government coupled with routine acts of terror and extortion by politically supported god-fathers. These had become one of the major areas of social concerns. The October 2001 general election returned BNP to the parliament with an overwhelming majority of the seats.

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Political Trends in Bangladesh