Thinking Aloud: Volume IX, Issue 6: November 1, 2022 The November 2022 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on the contemporary issues facing today’s world including structural transformation, learning loss, recession, and the Nobel prize in Economics. The first page article titled “Challenges of structural transformation in South Asia” describes the pace and nature of structural…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VI, Issue 11: April 2020 The April 2020 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “National and Regional Responses to COVID-19 Global Crisis”. The first-page article titled “Regional Response in South Asia to COVID-19 Driven Global Crisis” emphasizes the need for regional cooperation in South Asia and rejuvenating the SAARC process to combat…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VI, Issue 9: February 2020 The February 2020 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “South Asian Countries in Global Trade”. The first-page article titled “Global Trade Regime in Turmoil: An Appraisal for Re-energizing Regional Integration in South Asia” emphasizes that in the face of the turmoil in the global trade regime, there…
Thinking Aloud: Volume VI, Issue 8: January 2020 This January 2020 issue of Thinking Aloud comes with the theme “Challenges of Achieving SDGs in Developing Countries”. The first article “The SDG Costing Exercise and Financing Challenges in Developing countries” reinforces that achieving SDGs requires systemic changes in the attitude and mechanisms in developing countries that…
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 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 4 The September, 2017 issue of Thinking Aloud comes with the theme of ‘employment and labor market challenges for South Asia’. The first article on “Are we entering into a ‘jobless’ growth phase in South Asia?” focuses on a timely concern that, although South Asia has been the fastest growing…
Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 2 SANEM, in collaboration with the World Bank group, organized the “SANEM-North America Discussion Forum 2017ʺ on June 12, 2017, at the World Bank premises in Washington, D.C., USA. The event was marked by four trigger presentations on growth, regional integration, SDGs and demographic dividend with especial emphasis on South…
Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 1 This June, Thinking Aloud celebrates its 3rd anniversary: a milestone for the monthly economic digest published by SANEM. Envisioned as a chronicle of the contemporary economic contexts, SANEM’s Thinking Aloud set sail in June 2014. Since the beginning of its journey, 36 issues later, Thinking Aloud has successfully made…
Thinking Aloud: Volume III, Issue 5 October, 2016 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on ‘Challenges in Regional Integration in South Asia’. The first article “Sub-regional cooperation can be the answer to the deadlock of regional integration in South Asia” concentrates on the need and the challenges for stronger integration process in the sub-regional integration among…