Thinking Aloud: Volume VIII, Issue 7: December 1, 2021 The December 2021 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “50 years of Bangladesh’s Development: Achievements and Challenges”. This special issue of Thinking Aloud features an article titled “50 years of Bangladesh’s Development: Achievements and Challenges” comprising the first, second and third pages. The article discusses Bangladesh’s…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VIII, Issue 6: November 1, 2021 The November 2021 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “COVID-19 and Emerging Challenges”. The first-page article titled “Challenges of the agro-processing industry in Bangladesh” reiterates that there are considerable institutional challenges in the agro-processing sector in Bangladesh, which require a solution. The institutional challenges in the…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VIII, Issue 5: October 2021 The October 2021 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “Emerging Trade Issues and Trade Policy Reform in Bangladesh”. The first page article titled “Rethinking the Import Policy Order of Bangladesh” reiterates that the upcoming Import Policy Order (IPO) 2021-24 should focus more on the development aspects against…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VIII, Issue 4: September 2021 The September 2021 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “COVID-19 and development strategies”. The first page article titled “Devising development strategies factoring in COVID-19” analyses the development challenges emerging in the context of continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic and proposes policy frameworks for tackling these challenges. The…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VIII, Issue 3: August 2021 The August 2021 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “Covid-19 and Development Challenges of Bangladesh”. The first page article titled “Challenges of SMEs in the time of the pandemic” emphasizes that the resonant performance of SMEs is critical for the recovery of the overall economy in the…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VIII, Issue 2: July 2021 The July 2021 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “COVID-19 Recovery: Contexts and Priorities”. The first page article titled “COVID-19 Recovery: Contexts and Priorities in Bangladesh” emphasizes that an effective recovery process requires a better understanding of the COVID contexts and setting the priorities right. In the…
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…