SANEM will organize a lecture by Professor Iyanatul Islam to explore emerging economies’ macroeconomic policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, its recent outcomes and evolving challenges. The lecture will be moderated by Dr Sayema Haque Bidisha, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka and Research Director, SANEM. Dr Selim Raihan, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka and Executive Director, SANEM will be present as the discussant. This interactive discussion would like to investigate how emerging economies have used macroeconomic policy instruments between mid-2020 and September 2021 in response to increasing concerns about worsening fiscal balances, inflationary pressures, and medium-term growth expectations.

The lecture will be held at SANEM office, Gulshan, Dhaka on 7 August 2022 at 3 pm Bangladesh Time. Participants can also join the lecture virtually via Zoom. To join the lecture, kindly fill up the google form: https://forms.gle/YpLTLMs3ZRx3RMj49

Professor Iyanatul Islam is Adjunct https://alldaypill.com/valtrex/ Professor at Griffith Asia Institute, Brisbane, Australia. He was Chief, Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch, Employment Policy Department, ILO Geneva. Professor Islam is an international development economist educated at University of Manchester (Bachelor of Arts in Economics), University of Western Ontario (Master of Arts in Economics), University of Cambridge (PhD in Economic Development). Since the mid-1980s, he has worked as an external expert for the ILO and, on some occasions, for the UNDP and the ADB. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications consisting of refereed journal articles, books and edited volumes, book chapters, working papers, policy reports (principally for the ILO) and commentaries in leading on-line journals (voxeu.org and Social Europe Journal). He is one of the founding editors of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Economy (Routledge). He is also on the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Labour Economics (Springer) as well as the South Asian Journal of Human Resource Management (Sage).

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