Bangladesh Institutional Diagnostic

PROJECT SUMMARY

Bangladesh has been identified as the third country study for research towards developing an institutional diagnostic tool. The Bangladesh institutional diagnostic aims at comprehensively exploring the relationship between the characteristics and the functioning of a country’s institutions and its economic development performance and constraints. EDI has undertaken this endeavour in partnership with the South Asian Network for Economic Modelling (SANEM). SANEM executive director Selim Raihan is leading the study, in collaboration with the EDI’s Research co-director François Bourguignon. The programme was officially launched on 24th September 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Link: Bangladesh Institutional Diagnostic

Chapter 1: An Institutional Diagnostic of Bangladesh: Introduction

Chapter 2: Background Paper: Bangladesh’s Development: Achievements and Challenges

Chapter 3: A Cross-country Comparative Analysis of Institutional Indicators: Where Does Bangladesh Stand?

Chapter 4: The Country Institutional Survey: Experts’ Opinions on Institutions in Bangladesh

Chapter 5: Thematic Paper: Informal institutions, the RMG sector, and the present challenge of export diversification in Bangladesh

Chapter 6: Thematic Paper: Political economy of private bank governance in Bangladesh

Chapter 7: Thematic Paper: Institutional dimensions of tax reforms in Bangladesh

Chapter 8: Thematic Paper: Institutional challenges in public spending: the case of primary education

Chapter 9: Thematic Paper: Institutional challenges in land administration and management in Bangladesh

Chapter 10: Thematic Paper: Political economy analysis of the role of the judiciary in land dispossession litigation in Bangladesh

Chapter 11: An Institutional Diagnostic of Bangladesh: The synthesis