Bangladesh-Bureau-of-Statistics

Non-technical officials are being appointed to lead highly technical projects at the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), raising concerns over delays, inefficiencies and rising costs.According to officials familiar with the matter, senior bureaucrats from the administration cadre are increasingly being appointed as project directors (PDs) for BBS's major statistical projects, despite lacking specialised expertise in statistics. They warn that the absence of technical leadership is slowing imp...

The offices of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) were once synonymous with sacks and stacks of papers. Files would be piled on and under employees’ desks, in front and behind them. Whenever heaps of documents used to appear in corridors or corners, it was understood that a census was underwa...