Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 10 This March 2018 issue of Thinking Aloud has been dedicated to cover the news of the 3rd SANEM Annual Economists’ Conference (SAEC) 2018 on ‘Leave no one behind in South Asia’. This year’s conference was dedicated to the memory of Late Dr. Saman Kelegama, who served as the Executive…
Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 9 This February 2018 issue of Thinking Aloud is a special issue on the 14th South Asian Economics Students’ Meet (SAESM). On January 18-21, 2018, SANEM, with the support from the World Bank and the Asia Foundation, organized the 14th SAESM in Chittagong, Bangladesh. SAESM is a prestigious annual academic…
Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 8 This January 2018 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “Trade and Trade Policy”. The first article titled “The future of Bangladesh’s trade policy” argues that emerging challenges and complexities in the global trading regime call for an overhauling of the conventional thinking in the trade policy regime in Bangladesh.…
Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 7 This December 2017 issue of Thinking Aloud comes with the theme “poverty”. The first article “The arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh” presents an analysis of the poverty dynamics of Bangladesh over the past one and half decades and suggests that the declining trend of annual average reduction in poverty…
Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 6 This November 2017 issue of Thinking Aloud comes with the theme “Education”. The first article “Is the education sector in Bangladesh ready to take the challenges of the coming decades?” suggests that despite that Bangladesh made considerable progress in gross-enrolment in primary education, the country is seriously lagging behind…
Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 5 This October 2017 issue of Thinking Aloud comes with the theme “Health”. The first article “Challenges for Bangladesh in achieving the Goal 3 of SDGs” indicates that the progress in Bangladesh between 1990 and 2015 in maternal mortality, infant and child mortality and life expectancy was noteworthy. In 2015,…
Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 4 The September, 2017 issue of Thinking Aloud comes with the theme of ‘employment and labor market challenges for South Asia’. The first article on “Are we entering into a ‘jobless’ growth phase in South Asia?” focuses on a timely concern that, although South Asia has been the fastest growing…
Rapid Assessment of Hazaribagh and Savar Tanneries, Dhaka An overarching goal of Bangladesh is to attain high income country status by 2041. This will require achieving sustained economic growth of 8% to 10% over the next two decades. Expanding manufacturing export will be a key driver in this pursuit. In this context, along with Ready…
Optimizing Cross-Border Trade Operations between Bangladesh and India, AMEG, USAID. Citation: Raihan, S., M.N.A. Hossain, M.J.E. Jalal and M.S. Anowar (2017). Approximately 80 percent of land trade between India and Bangladesh passes through the Benapole and Petrapole land ports, making this junction one of the largest land ports in Asia by trade volume. Well-functioning business…
Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 3 SANEM mourns Dr. Saman Kelegama’s unexpected and untimely departure. The August 2017 issue of Thinking Aloud is dedicated to his memory. In the first article titled “South Asia’s greater integration in Asia: A non-Indian perspective” Dr. Selim Raihan argues that though the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has created…