Bangladesh Institutional Diagnostic PROJECT SUMMARY Bangladesh has been identified as the third country study for research towards developing an institutional diagnostic tool. The Bangladesh institutional diagnostic aims at comprehensively exploring the relationship between the characteristics and the functioning of a country’s institutions and its economic development performance and constraints. EDI has undertaken this endeavour in partnership…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VI, Issue 10: March 2020 This March 2020 issue of Thinking Aloud has been dedicated to cover the news of the 5th SANEM Annual Economists’ Conference (SAEC) 2020 on “Institutions for Development”. The first page article on ‘Institutions for Development’ discusses the definition, types and importance of institutions for development in developing…
Thinking Aloud: Volume V, Issue 4 The September 2018 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “economic growth”. The first page article titled “Does institution matter for the quality of growth?” presents an index of quality of economic growth’ (IQEG) which is constructed for 156 countries for 16 years between 2000 and 2015. In South Asia,…
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…