Abir Hasan Niloy and Zaheer Abbas
The writers are researchers from Bangladesh. Md Abir Hasan Niloy is the co-founder of Youth Policy Forum and a DPhil student at Department of
International Development of the University of Oxford.
Zaheer Abbas is the Head of Reform Management in Youth Policy Forum, and a sophomore at the
Dual BA Program between SciencesPo Paris and Columbia University
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