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 Bangladesh and Development related
“We are small country; we want friendship to all and malice to none.”-Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

“As we have started the development journey overcoming many obstacles, God-willing, no one can stop
this journey anymore.” --- HPM Sheikh Hasina

“Development of Bangladesh stood out as a shining testament to this claim and the country also fared
better than many South Asian Nations in the Human Capital Index (HCI).” --- Amartya Sen (Nobel Laureate)

“Bangladesh’s strong track record of poverty reduction and development shows that with the right policies
and actions further progress is possible.” – Qismiao Fan (Country Director of World Bank for Bangladesh,
Bhutan and Nepal)

“Smart Bangladesh will be ensured with universal payment service.”

“The next dream of digital Bangladesh is to develop a cashless society. The blaze service is a part of the
cashless society.”—Sajeeb Wazed.

“Next step of digital Bangladesh is cashless society to ensure transparency accountability and mobility in
financial transaction.” – Sajeeb Wazed Joy (Adviser to the Government of Bangladesh on Information and
Communication Technology.

“Cashless society: The next step of hassle-free transaction in Bangladesh.” --- Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

“The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.” --- Dr. Dan Ariely

“A digital transaction is a seamless system where transactions are affected without the need for cash.”

“We will build Bangladesh as a developed and prosperous country by 2041. That Bangladesh will be a
Smart Bangladesh. We will transform into Smart Bangladesh from the digital one.” ---- Honorable Prime
Sheikh Hasina.

“Bangladesh is marching down the highway of development, now is the time to hold our head high.” ---
Honorable Prime Sheikh Hasina.

“Bangladesh, the world’s tiny economy, will grow faster than protected earlier and it is on now Next
Eleven.” --- hy³ivóªwfwËK wewb‡qvM dvg© Goldman Sachs.

“This bridge is not just a bridge, it is not a brick, cement, concrete structure, this bridge is our pride, our
pride, and this bridge is a symbol of our strength and dignity.”---Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

“Let’s build bridges, not walls.” --- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.” --- Joseph Fort Newton

“Moving People Saving Time and Environment.”—Metro Rail Slogan.

“With the introduction of metro rail, another feather has been added to the country’s cap of big
achievements.” --- PM Sheikh Hasina.

“If Rural Development that means the socio-economic development of the village people can be done, the
country will develop. That is what we believe. If we want to develop the country, there can never be
development by excluding the people from the grassroots.”---Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

“Not a single person in the country will beg or go hungry. So that everyone can stand on their own feet and
become self-reliant.”—Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. (Rural Development/Poverty Reduction)

“Bangladesh will turn into a developed nation with US$ 16,000 per capita income and poverty will be a
matter of distant past in this Sonar Bangla (Golden Bangla) in 2041.”—HPM Sheikh Hasina.

“Vision of the Delta Plan-2100 is to build a prosperous Bangladesh through adopting compact,
comprehensive, and effective strategies befitting with the changes of time.” ---HPM Sheikh Hasina.

“The government has declared the Delta Plan-2100 as a long-term strategy to prevent floods and soil
erosion, manages rivers and wastes, and supply water throughout the century.” --- HPM Sheikh Hasina.

“The Blue Economy model aims for improvement of human wellbeing and social equity, while significantly
reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities.” --- Patricia Scotland (Secretary General of
Commonwealth of Nations)

“The coastal state exercises sovereign rights over the continental shelf for exploiting the minerals and
other non-living resources of the seabed and sub-soil together with living organisms.” – Article 77 of
UNCLOS.

“Focus needs to be placed to build a sustainable blue economic belt in this subcontinent with the help of
untapped resources of the sea.”—HPM Sheikh Hasina.

“Bangladesh has 120 trillion dollar ocean resources which will make Bangladesh Asian super power.” –
Charles Brown Blumberg (Ocean related researcher)

Bank and Financial

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it begins
to rain.”---Robert Frost.

“Bank is an economic heart whose heartbeat tells the economic condition of the country.” ---Economist
Wahiduddin Mahmood.
“Financial Inclusion is featured in eight of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals.”

“Rural banking is the producer of oxygen as they are producing edible product for living of the urban. The
present advanced financial technology must reach to rural banking infrastructure to connect the rural
areas economic activities.” – International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)

“Automated delivery of new and traditional banking products and services directly to customers through
electronic, interactive communication channels is called digital banking or e-banking.” --- Federal Financial
Institution Examination Council’s (FFIEC)

“Banking is necessary, banks are not. And technology like mobile has facilitated this purpose so far.” --- Bill
Gates. (Mobile Banking)

“The main purpose of agent banking is to bring and introduce banking services to the rural and unbanked
people through agents where the physical structure of a bank is not established.”

“School Banking Account is a special type of banking towards the school going children and their parents
to know about the banking systems that helps to make a habit of savings from the early age of children.” –
Standard Chartered Bank

“We need to move beyond the idea of ‘environment’ and fall back in love with Mother Earth.” ---
Maduro and Curiel’s Bank (Green Banking)

“Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of ‘green’ as a verb, not an adjective.” – Daniel
Goleman. (Green Banking)

”We need banking, not banks.” --- Bill Gates. (E-banking)

“Every bean has its black, everyone and everything has some shortcomings.” (Green Banking)

“Green finance can eventually offer clean and green technologies with a positive impact on the
environment. It uses the ecological approach for distributing the funds which is necessary for preserving
the environment.” – United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

“Banking is fascinating. Not only does it provide the lifeblood of capitalism – namely, credit – but its history
is uniquely coherent. Railroads, automobiles, telephones, airplanes, oil companies, and technology firms all
came after banks.” --- John Maxfield

“A non-performing loan (NPL) is one which payments of either interest or principal have not been made
for a set number of days, for whatever reason.” – International Monetary Fund (IMF)

“Under Section 5 (c) of the Banking Act 1991, “defaulting borrower” means any debtor person or entity or
company whose loan is fully or partially unpaid at least 6 months after the due date of repayment. In this
case this account will be considered as defaulted and the person will be called defaulter.
“Monetary Policy should remain data-dependent, be well-communicated and ensure that inflation
expectations remain anchored.” --- Gita Gopinath, The Chief Economist of the International Monetary
Fund.

“The major winners will be financial services companies that embrace technology.” --- Alexander Peh,
PayPal and Braintree. (FinTech)

Globalization and ICT/IT related

“Bangladesh will be a key leader in the upcoming 4th Industrial Revolution.” – Prime Minister ICT Affairs
Adviser, Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

“Now is the time to talk about the 4th industrial revolution, because fast-changing technology is bringing
vast differences in human lives.” --- Sajeeb Wazed Joy (The Prime Minister’s Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) Affairs Adviser)

“Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now means to further enrich
and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the
name of universal freedom.” – Nelson Mendela

“It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.” – Kofi Anan

“Globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is
taking place in the present and which we must first open our eyes.” ---Bill Gates.

“Engage, Enlighten, Encourage and specially…just be yourself.

Social media is a community effort, everyone is an asset.” – Susan Cooper

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” --- Albert Einstein.
(Adverse effect of technology)

“Good, bad or indifferent! The use of technology is up to human kind, good use can make technology angel
and bad use can make it devil.” --- Philip Green (British Businessman)

“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the
last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.” --- Stephen Hawking.

“ChaGPT will change our world.” – Bill Gates.

“ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI.” --- Elon Musk.

“Technology is the best when it brings people together.” ----- Matt Mullenweg.
“Social media is not a media. The key is to listen, engage and build relationships.” --- David Alston

“’Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.” --- Mark McKinnon.

“Technology is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts after the gift of life.” --- American Physicist Freeman
Dyson (E-passport)

“Life is a fight, but not everyone’s fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.”---Andrew
Vachss.

According to the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) definition, bullying using digital media is called
cyber bullying.

“People are losing faith in the banking system due to security issues.”—N. Chandra Babu Naidu.

“The Fourth Industrial Revolution, finally, will change not only what we do but also who we are. It will
affect our identity and all the issues associated with it: our sense of privacy, our motions of ownership, our
consumption patterns, the time we devote to work and leisure, and how we develop our careers, cultivate
our skills, meet people, and nurture relationships.” – Klaus Schwab (Book: The Fourth Industrial
Revolution)

“We can see an industrial revolution lying ahead as a result of the expansion of information and
communication technology.” --- HPM Sheikh Hasina

“The financial industry experiences greater losses from cybercrime than any other sector, reportedly
experiencing attacks three as often as other industries.” – Financial Express.

Economy and Commerce/Business

“Blue Economy boon for Bangladesh.” –Sheikh Hasina

“Blue economy will turn the wheel of the economy.”---Prime Minister.

“If the ocean were a country it would have the seventh largest economy in the world.” --- 2015 report on
reviewing the ocean economy

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” --- Thomas Fuller

“A Green Economy can be defined as one that results in increased human well-being and social equity,
while significantly reducing environment risks and ecological scarcities.” --- UNEP

“I believe that the 8th five year plan will be very effective in achieving the desired development of the
country. --- Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
“E-commerce is a powerful means to connect the unconnected to global trade.” ---Aranca Gonzalez

“For E-commerce is most important thing is trust.” --- Jack Ma

Environment/Climate Change
“We all must move from a greed economy to a green economy.” --- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (Former
President of Indonesia)

“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.” – Margaret Mead.

“The environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain the
environment, we cannot sustain ourselves.” --- Wangari Maathai (Green Economy)

“The rate at which the world’s land-based ice caps have begun to melt, 70-80 percent of the area in
Bangladesh, including Dhaka can be by 2100.” --- Dr. Atik Rahman, eminent meteorologist.

“Climate change is not a power struggle, it’s a survival struggle.” ---Environment Scientist Diana Liverman.

“There is one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that
is the threat of a changing climate.” – Barak Obama on Climate Change, Ex-President of USA.

“We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation who can do
something about it.” – Barack Obama.

“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge
priority.” --- Bill Gates.

“Climate change knows no borders.” --- Angela Merkel.

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” --- Mahatma Gandhi,
Father of India.

“We don’t have plan B, because we don’t have planet B.” --- Ban Ki Moon, Former Secretary of the
United Nations.

“Pollution and climate change by excessive burning of fossil fuels are real threats, not the people who
warn that we must take these threats seriously.” --- David Suzuki.

“Waste is not waste until we waste it.” (E-waste)

Energy and Industry

“Due to the ongoing global energy crisis, the price of oil and gas is increasing rapidly, due to which there is
a shortage in electricity supply. But this crisis does not end here. The global energy situation may become
direr in the near future.”—Head of the International Energy Agency (IEA)
“To achieve ‘vision 2041’, the government is implementing various initiatives by giving the highest priority
to the energy sector, which one of the regulators of economic growth.” --- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Women related
“That great creations of the world are eternally beneficial, half of them is made by women, half by men.”---
Kazi Nazrul Islam.

“We want to build a future where world peace and women empowerment remain the cornerstone to
create a society free from poverty, discrimination and conflict.” --- Sheikh Hasina.

Women’s freedom is the sign of social freedom.” – Rosa Luxemburg.

“I raise up my voice – not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.” --- Malala
Yusafzai.

“I pledge to increase women’s participation in the information technology sector, tech start-ups and e-
commerce sector, to 25 percent by 2026 and 50 percent by 2041.” --- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

"A society cannot move forward without the development of women when they are the half of the total
population....How this society will be built if the women can't prepare themselves equally?" --- HPM Sheikh
Hasina.

“There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women and girls.” – Kofi
Anan (Ex-Secretary general of UN)

"Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation." --- Napoleon
Bonaparte

According to Article 27 of our Constitution, “All citizens are equal before the law and entitled to equal
protection of the law.”
According to Article 29(1), “There shall be equality of opportunity for all citizens in respect of appointment
or promotion to public service.”
According to Article 28(2) of the Constitution states, “Women at all levels of state and public life shall have
equal rights with men.”

Others/Contemporary issues
“Every well educated person is self-educated.” (Online Education)

“Seeking a loan from the IMF does not mean Bangladesh’s economy is in bad shape.” --- A. H. M. Mustafa
Kamal.
“Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called ‘demographic dividend’ has brought change.” ---
Nouriel Roubini

Problem and Solution

“War anywhere in the world but affects everywhere.” --- World Economic Forum (WEF)

“Adults write history but youth make history.” (Unemployment Problem)