Golam Mostafa Shuvo

Youth Policy Forum (YPF) recently launched its flagship series “Road to Reforms” with a focus on preparing a youth-led reform matrix for a paradigm shift in Bangladesh. This year-long programme was initiated with YPF”s ambitious dialogue on foreign policy reform in Bangladesh. YPF hosted a “Youth Consultation: Foreign Policy” session on 15 July 2020, which […]

Against all odds, Bangladesh rose from the ashes of war and became the 41st largest economy in the world in 2019. The journey from Kissinger’s “Bottomless Basket” to a global player has been interesting. However, a nation’s health depends on much more than the size of its economy and while Bangladesh has seen undeniable growth

Being hit by the ongoing pandemic, Bangladesh is in need of enhancing and increasing the quality and quantity of research work and studies including comprehensive clinical trials and meta-analysis whilst encouraging abundant data generation. Currently, lack of coordination among different research institutes and organisations, limitations in data management and a significant communication gap among researchers,

On June 6, Youth Policy Forum’s ambitious series on budget dialogue culminated in its much-anticipated final event, “Youth meets Leaders.” Standing true to the name, six distinguished experts of political and non-political backgrounds gathered to analyse the policy proposals presented by teams of young specialists from YPF. The panel included MA Mannan, Minister of Planning;

June 5th proved to be consequential for Youth Policy Forum (YPF) Budget 2020 Dialogue, with their second last panel bringing together leading politicians of varying party affiliations to discuss the recommendations put forward by expert and student-led panels in prior sessions. The esteemed panel consisted of Waseqa Ayesha Khan, MP of Bangladesh Awami League; Barrister