Talk:Corruption in Bangladesh

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The article purports to have been updated until this date i.e. Feb 7, 2017. In reality, the article lacks a lot of updated information. Quite a few of the paragraphs/sections are completely devoid of any input and/or have information that is a number of years outdated.

The paragraphs or sections do not seem to be a cohesive whole. Rather these are more like disjointed sentences strung together to resemble paragraphs or sections. A lot more needs to be written about the corruption persisting in the civil service, judiciary and law enforcement. Most of the corruption in the energy sector is well documented yet nothing has been written in that section especially regarding the involvement of Mr. Ershad during his time as military and quasi-civilian ruler of Bangladesh. It has been written that he was barred from contesting elections and yet he is presently not only a Member of Parliament but also an influential member of the present government. If I have the time in the next few days I will try to rectify the shortcomings of this article, but I would prefer not to get into controversy regarding certain comments that have to be made against people (whoever or whichever party they may belong to) in the government. Abul Bakhtiar (talk) 12:07, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Where you are a part of corrupted Government? How a fair construction expected? MazharulUN (talk) 14:04, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Problematic discussion paper

The following paragraph was added to the article by Canberra2021 on 22 July 2021 in this edit:

A research paper written by Ronald MacDonald of University of Glasgow, Scottland criticizes Bangladesh military involvement in government and blame massive corruption in Bangladesh to military’s involvement in government. The author of the research paper articulates, the problem with military intervention is that people are deprived of the choice ‘to have any voice or control at all over those aspects of their destiny and daily life which interfere with the state. Transparency International reports that the purpose of military intervention is to hide rampant corruption since the military take over in January 2007.

There are problems with the way this is sourced. It cites MacDonald, Ronald; Tariq Majeed, Muhammad (2010). "Corruption and the Military in Politics: Theory and Evidence from around the World" (PDF). Scottish Institute for Research in Economics. p. 13..

Reliable scholarship is that which has been vetted by the scholarly community, where the material has been published in reputable peer-reviewed academic journals or by well-regarded academic presses. The Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) is neither of these types of publishers. They say their discussion papers indicate the recent and ongoing research interests and activities of their participants. There is no indication of peer-review. The paper is effectively self-published by MacDonald and Majeed. They are economists, not experts on the military, politics, or corruption.
The views described on page 13 of the paper are not MacDonald's.
MacDonald and Majeed attribute the views to Moudud Ahmed, but it is not clear that the website they cite (https://web.archive.org/web/20130805073708/http://moududahmed.com/3.html) was authored by him. It was a website created to free him from jail. The author of the content is not identified. If it was written by him, he might have a biased view, since it was the military government that imprisoned him.
The paragraph doesn't make the temporal context clear. The military took over government in 2007. The underlying source, written circa 2008, says corruption increased since the military take over. They haven't been in power since 2009. The source doesn't say anything about corruption now or who is responsible for it.

For these reasons I've removed the paragraph. Feel free to re-add similar material if you can cite something clearly written by Moudud Ahmed, such as one of his books, or another reliable source. --Worldbruce (talk) 19:11, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Worldbruce (talk)

I am not sure about your perception of University publication. A university does not publish a paper without vetting by the senior professors. Hence the publication has two author for verification purpose. There might be another Al Jazeera report about Bangladesh Military. So the paragraph is well vetted and obtained from reputable source.

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I have removed part of that paragraph due to copyright issues, given that it contains substantially similar phrasing from MacDonald and Majeed's publication. DanCherek (talk) 02:26, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]