Volume 4 Number 130 Fri. October 03, 2003       Advertise with The Daily Star -- Advertising on the Website    Advertising in the Printed E dition-- Home  News Today's Index Front Page Business Political Sports Foreign Relations Metropolitan National International Culture General Views Editorial Letters to Editor Write to Editor Sections Environment World Others About Us Contact Advertisement Suppliments Archives Editorial   Editorial UNDP report breathes fresh air Emphasis laid on the 'missing middle' A study commissioned by the UNDP to look beyond the conventional approaches to poverty reduction in the country has yielded an extraordinary report. It is featured by a certain forward-looking pragmatism.   Public trust: Building block of society Recently, I took part in an interesting small group discussion on public trust and confidence in Bangladesh.   Matters around us Govt-Maoists dialogue in the offing ? There seems a silver lining in the Government-Maoists hostilities in Nepal.   Of mouse and man If you are already beginning to accuse me of male-chauvinism and thinking of reminding me that we have come a long way from the gender-insensitive days of John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice andMen,     Advertisement