The Daily Star

The budget dialogue is a webinar series organised by the Youth Policy Forum (YPF) to analyse Bangladesh’s upcoming national budget with field experts and policy teams and for their first discussion, they covered the healthcare sector. The webinar took place on May 18 where panelists included Dr Mohammad Shahadat Hossain Mahmud, Dr Taufique Joarder, Dr […]

To do a deep dive into the 2020 national budget, Youth Policy Forum (YPF) has organised the “The 2020 Budget Dialogue” – a by sector expert analysis spanning three weeks, starting from today. The national budget is always the centre of high voltage policy discussions every year, and this time around it will determine Bangladesh’s

Bangladeshis have long wanted their own policy dialogue platform, a medium through which they can access the sort of expert, unbiased opinion that is available elsewhere in the world, such as BBC’s Hard Talks or Oxford Union style debates. The current pandemic has brought that need to the forefront, and in response, Youth Policy Forum