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 III, Issue 9 This special issue of Thinking Aloud, February 1, 2017, is dedicated to SANEM’s 10th anniversary celebration. This issue also focuses on the theme of the upcoming Second SANEM Annual Economists’ Conference 2017. The first page article on “Managing growth for social inclusion” presents an analysis using a constructed Social…
Thinking Aloud: Volume III, Issue 3 The August, 2016 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on ‘dynamics of economic growth’. The first article titled “Transitions between growth episodes: Do institutions matter and do some institutions matter more?” investigates the role of economic and political institutions in determining the likelihood of a country transitioning from one growth…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VI, Issue 12 The February, 2016 issue of Thinking Aloud is on Infrastructure and Economic Growth. The first article on “How to tackle ‘entitlement failure’ in infrastructure?” argues that several supply-side constraints related to weak infrastructure can restrict economic diversification. Some of these constraints are broadly ‘general’ in nature and some are…