Thinking Aloud: Volume V, Issue 3 This August 2018 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “Emerging challenges in the global trade regime”. The first article on “Can the world afford a full-scale trade war?” presents an analysis using the GTAP model, where a scenario of a large scale trade war between the USA and China…
Thinking Aloud: Volume V, Issue 2 This July 2018 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “Industrialization”. The first article on “The road to rapid industrialization in Bangladesh” highlights four major issues which need to be in order for a rapid industrialization in Bangladesh. First, the need for second-generation strategic and dynamic industrial policies aiming at…
Thinking Aloud: Volume V, Issue 1 This June 2018 issue of Thinking Aloud is a 4th-anniversary special issue. On this occasion, SANEM organized a roundtable discussion on “Looking beyond LDC graduation” on May 12, 2018 to discuss on the anticipated major benefits and challenges of Bangladesh, while going through the graduation process and its aftermath.…
Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 12 This May 2018 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “Bangladesh’s labor market challenges”. The first article on “How can Bangladesh avoid ‘jobless growth’?” focuses on a critical concern that despite impressive economic growth in recent years, job creation in Bangladesh has been rather unsatisfactory. The article suggests for a…
Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 11 This April 2018 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on ‘Bangladesh’s development trajectory’. The first article on ‘Is LDC graduation a panacea?’ highlights the benefits and risk factors for Bangladesh associated with its graduation from the LDC status. The article argues that though the business-as-usual process of economic and social…
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…