A quiet revolution is taking place in a nation where almost one in three recent graduates find it difficult to secure official work. Bangladesh is becoming a worldwide leader in digital and platform-based labour as millions of young people avoid traditional employment lines and forge their own path
When a business owner in California types "hire virtual assistant" into a search engine, the results are not random. They are the product of years of deliberate positioning, cultural fluency in the global market, and a country that decided its workers would not merely compete but would come to defi
A labour market can deteriorate without any of the visible drama economists and editors typically reach for when describing decline. There is no need for mass retrenchments, no executive statements of contrition, no sudden collapse in payroll data. The change arrives through a smaller and quieter d
Traditionally, war has been quantified in terms of obvious destruction: loss of territories, cities reduced to rubble, and soldiers killed in combat. Governments count victories and defeats through statistics and shifting borders. However, the underlying effects of contemporary war are most frequen
Imagine spending months running between government offices, submitting the same documents again and again to different agencies, only to be told you are missing one more signature from one more department. For generations of Bangladeshi entrepreneurs, that has not been a nightmare. It does not hav
