Vol IX, Issue 4: September 2022

100th Issue of Thinking Aloud: Volume IX, Issue 4: September 1, 2022 It is our great pleasure to announce that September 2022 marks the 100th issue of Thinking Aloud. Since 1 June 2014, SANEM has been bringing out this monthly publication on the first day of each month or in some cases even before that.…

Gender Sensitive Budgeting: Bangladesh Perspective

Gender Sensitive Budgeting: Bangladesh Perspective Citation:  Nahar, M.A., Chowdhury, O.R., Tiasha, A.M. (2022). Gender Sensitive Budgeting: Bangladesh Perspective. Creating separate budgets for women or merely boosting funding for their programs is not what gender-responsive budgeting entails. Instead, gender-responsive budgeting aims to make sure that public resources are collected and distributed in ways that are efficient and…

Announcement | Macroeconomic policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis in emerging economies: recent outcomes and evolving challenges

Previous Events Lecture on  Macroeconomic policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis in emerging economies: recent outcomes and evolving challenges 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,…

Jobs Outcome Assessment of the Bangladesh Livestock and Dairy Development Project

Jobs Outcome Assessment of the Bangladesh Livestock and Dairy Development Project Collaboration: The World Bank Group Starting date: May 31, 2021 Completion date: December 31, 2021 Project description: This study aims to assess the institutional coordination mechanism related to key service and support delivery mechanism related to COVID response and recovery. Therefore, the equity and…

Bangladesh Trade Facilitation: Time Release Study (TRS)

Previous Bangladesh Trade Facilitation: Time Release Study (TRS) Collaboration: Nathan Associates Inc., USA Starting date: September 09, 2021 Completion date: March 31, 2022 Project description: To gather more detailed information on the times required for processing and Customs clearance of these products, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded Bangladesh Trade Facilitation (BTF) Project initiated…

Vol IX, Issue 3: August 2022

Thinking Aloud: Volume IX, Issue 3: August 1, 2022 The August 2022 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “Macroeconomic and Development Challenges of Bangladesh”. The first page article, titled “Anatomy of macroeconomic challenges in Bangladesh” discusses the global and domestic context which are causing short-term shocks to Bangladesh’s macroeconomic stability. Exploring the policy responses to…

Impact of COVID-19 on Labour Market and Migration in Bangladesh

Impact of COVID-19 on Labour Market and Migration in Bangladesh Citation:  Raihan, S., Bidisha, S. H., Uddin, M., Ahmed, M. T., Nahar, M. A. & Ahmmed, S.(2022). Impact of COVID-19 on Labour Market and Migration in Bangladesh: Results from SANEM’s Nationwide Employment Survey Conducted in January-February 2021. SANEM Publications, Dhaka, Bangladesh Although COVID-19 was primarily a…

Addressing Vulnerability of Youth in Bangladesh: Policy and Resource Allocation

Previous Events SANEM ActionAid Bangladesh Dialogue Addressing Vulnerability of Youth in Bangladesh: Policy and Resource Allocation 27 July 2022 | 10:30 AM Bangladesh is currently passing through the phase of a demographic dividend as one-third of the country’s population are youth (between the age of 15 and 35 years). However, a large percentage of the…