Unending corruption threatens national development potential
In the 1980s, when HM Ershad was the president, he once claimed that the number one national issue of Bangladesh was the unplanned population growth. However, this statement was not correct. Population, whether planned or unplanned, can never be the number one national problem of a nation. Population is a resource that is essential for any form of production to take place. It is the state's responsibility to turn the population into human resources. If the population is not nurtured with proper training and state support, it can turn into a severe problem for a country. On the other hand, if the population is turned into human resources, it can become the best production resource for any country. Therefore, population itself is never a problem; the real problem lies in the state's failure to transform the population into human resources. In many developing countries like Bangladesh, the number one national problem is corruption and the state's failure to control that corruption.
