National Blueprint · One of 195
A nation of 175.7 million on the world’s largest delta, where four in five now live above $4.20 a day and the World Bank committed $1.1 billion to protect food security in 2026.
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Where Bangladeshis and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.
Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Bangladesh: one of a community of selfless people, at home and abroad, building a nation where every citizen has a decent life.
Become a Co-designerDesign Studio · Work with Perfect Nations
Every mandate makes the same four moves for Bangladesh. What changes is how deep we go, and how far the work travels toward market.
A private session for the people who decide.
Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.
Led personally by the President and CEO.
For the Government of Bangladesh, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.
A red sun on a field of green: the green of your land and the red of those who gave their lives for it. You have fed a nation of 175 million on one of the most crowded deltas on earth.
“You clothe the world from a delta. Now let every Bangladeshi kitchen cook with clean fuel.”
Dispatches
Short analyses of the instruments and investments shaping Bangladesh, written for ministers, investors and citizens by Preeti Sinha and by Nusrat Rahman, Nation Steward of Bangladesh.
All dispatchesDispatches appear here as soon as they are published.
Design Studio · Writings
An essay, an article or a true story of up to 1,500 words: your vision of Perfect Bangladesh and the economic solutions to achieve it. Original and unpublished, published with your name and your permission.
Sovereign Assets
Each is owned today, earns today, and can lift Bangladesh closer to Perfect Capita.
33 in every hundred live in towns and cities; the rest live on the land they farm and fish.
The land that feeds the nation, and the first place a citizen dividend can be earned.
Standing forest holds the water, soil and carbon that the world will pay to keep.
Below the scarcity line of 1,000 cubic metres: every drop must be stored, treated and reused.
Sun, wind, water and biomass already carry part of the load; the rest is the opportunity.
What each asset is worth, and how far it can carry Bangladesh toward Perfect Capita, is the question our research and our guests take up below.
Sovereign AssetsDesign Studio · Perfect Capita
The Living LineThe poverty line measures income. The Living Line measures a life: food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and livelihood. Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards. Coverage scores each standard strictly out of 100, and a nation is held at its weakest: Bangladesh at 29, by energy, with shelter at 37.3 and education at 48.8 next.
Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Bangladesh. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures
Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.
The Research · Capital Architecture
The record in figures
The register
Food security and livelihoods
Protects households from the fuel and food shocks of 2026.
World Bank
SourceDeposit insurance and bank supervision
Protects small savers and strengthens the central bank’s supervision.
World Bank
SourceSize to be set in negotiation
Follows the ECF, EFF and RSF arrangements approved in January 2023.
International Monetary Fund
Source
Nusrat RahmanNation Steward of Bangladesh · SI ResearcherEvery change is sourced and reviewed before it is published.
Design Studio · Enterprises
The Stewards are verifying the companies and social enterprises already delivering the seven basic living standards in Bangladesh. Suggest one to include.
Suggest an enterpriseDesign Studio · Voices of Bangladesh
Launching soon“What does Bangladesh already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”
We are looking for the people with real stories from Bangladesh: the leaders who built something that works, and the keepers of local knowledge who know how their communities live, cope and thrive.
The Bangladesh Design Studio is open
Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us. Every message receives a personal reply.
