Thinking Aloud: Volume VI, Issue 7: December 2019 The December 2019 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “Country Competitiveness of Bangladesh”. The first page article titled “Competitiveness of Bangladesh: Is It Holding Back the Development Potentials?” states that the economic growth rate in Bangladesh is at an ever-increasing rate since 2013 which increased from 6%…
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…
Thinking Aloud: Volume I, Issue 4 SANEM Thinking Aloud, September 1, 2014 issue focuses on inclusive growth. The first article attempts to generate a conceptual debate on the understanding of quality of employment in Bangladesh, and suggests that, for the promotion of inclusive growth, Bangladesh needs to transit from its current state of ‘good-enough’ jobs to…