Staff Report
Finance Adviser Dr Mirza Azizul Islam urged the international donors to change their mindset in funding developments through government and non-governmental channels.
They are “neither angels nor devils,” he said while addressing a discussion on ‘the research and policy divide: Meeting the policy research challenge in Bangladesh’ held at the LGED auditorium yesterday in the capital. Responding to some discussants’ allegation against the funding agencies, the Adviser said, donors are human beings, not angels or devils. So their mindset could be changed through discussion. [Read more]