Thinking Aloud: Volume VIII, Issue 1: June 2021 TThe June 2021 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “2021-22 National Budget”. The first page article titled “The expectations from 2021-22 National Budget” narrates the context of this year’s national budget which will be the second budget during the ongoing unprecedented economic and social crises induced by…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VII, Issue 12: May 2021 The May 2021 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “COVID-19 and Business Confidence in Bangladesh”. The first page article titled “Stimulating private investment in the time of pandemic” highlighted that in Bangladesh, despite the gradual rise in the investment-GDP ratio over the past three decades, private sector…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VII, Issue 11: April 2021 The April 2021 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “COVID-19 fallout on labour market in Bangladesh”. The first page article titled “Strategies to address COVID-19 induced labour market challenges in Bangladesh” highlighted that COVID-19 deeply affected the labour market in Bangladesh. It intensified some of the existing…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VII, Issue 10: March 2021 This March 2021 issue of Thinking Aloud has been dedicated to the Bay of Bengal Economic Dialogue 2021 on “Post-COVID-19 Challenges in the Bay of Bengal Region”, which was held virtually during 8-11 February 2021. The first page article on ‘Post-COVID-19 Challenges in the Bay of Bengal…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VII, Issue 9: February 2021 The February 2021 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “COVID-19 fallout on poverty and livelihoods in Bangladesh”. The first page article titled “Strategies to tackle the pandemic induced poverty in Bangladesh” highlighted that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented rise in poverty in Bangladesh in…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VII, Issue 8: January 2021 The January 2021 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “COVID-19 and Development Priorities”. The first page article titled “Setting the development priorities right in 2021 in Bangladesh” emphasizes that the concerns related to poverty, inequality and employment in Bangladesh suggest that no reason is there to remain…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VII, Issue 7: December 2020 The December 2020 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “COVID-19: Challenges and Wayout”. The first page article titled “Post COVID-19 challenges in international trade in South Asia” emphasizes that In the post-COVID-19 era, there are several challenges in international trade in South Asia. While the effective GVC…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VII, Issue 6: November 2020 The November 2020 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “COVID-19 and Development Challenges”. The first-page article titled “COVID-19 and the road to recovery in Bangladesh” emphasizes that the current discussion on the recovery needs to change its focus from the narrow GDP growth rate to broader development…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VII, Issue 5: October 2020 The October 2020 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “COVID-19 and Development Challenges”. The first-page article titled “COVID-19 and development challenges” emphasizes that COVID-19 has brought about an unprecedented crisis in human history in terms of its dimension and scale. This crisis involves not only pandemic related…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VII, Issue 4: September 2020 The September 2020 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “COVID-19 Crisis: Trade-Related Challenges in South Asia”. The first-page article titled “COVID-19 and challenges of trade: The Bangladesh perspective” emphasizes that while being a small developing country Bangladesh has little to influence the recovery of the global trade,…