Thinking Aloud: Volume X, Issue 12: May 1, 2024 The theme of the May 2024 issue of Thinking Aloud is “Contemporary Development Challenges and Opportunities in Bangladesh”. The first page article, “Food insecurity: How concerned should we be?” analyses the persistent high inflationary pressures heightening concerns regarding the erosion of food security in Bangladesh. The…
Thinking Aloud: Volume X, Issue 8: January 1, 2024 The theme of the January 2024 issue of Thinking Aloud is “Development Challenges and Way Ahead”. The first page article, “Bangladesh economy: What lies ahead in 2024?”, reflects on the macroeconomic challenges that Bangladesh faced in 2023 and the deep fault lines in economic governance that…
Thinking Aloud: Volume IX, Issue 10: March 1, 2023 The theme of the March 2023 issue of Thinking Aloud is “Building Resilience to Shocks: Priorities, Challenges and Prospects”—which was also the theme of the 6th SANEM Annual Economists’ Conference (SAEC) 2023, held on 4 and 5 February 2023. The first page article, “Shocks and Shields:…
COVID -19 Fallout on Poverty and Livelihoods in Bangladesh: Results from SANEM’s Nation-wide Household Survey (November-December 2020) Citation: Raihan, S., Uddin, M., Ahmed, M.T., Nahar, M.A., & Sharmin, E. (2021). COVID -19 Fallout on Poverty and Livelihoods in Bangladesh: Results from SANEM’s Nation-wide Household Survey (November-December 2020). SANEM Publications, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Until the onset of…
Thinking Aloud: Volume V, Issue 11: April 2019 The April 2019 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “The challenges of inclusive growth”. The first page article titled “Hiccups of Bangladesh Development Surprise” offers some reasonable explanations to the so-called ‘Bangladesh development surprise’ or ‘Bangladesh paradox’ and argues that, without significant improvements in the quality of…