by Selim Raihan | Nov 7, 2015 | Macroeconomy and Economic Growth
Export diversification has been an important policy agenda in many of the developing countries. It is commonly viewed that export diversification is a necessary condition for the sustained and long-term growth of the economy and job creation. The current discourse of...
by Selim Raihan, Mahtab Uddin | Nov 1, 2015 | Macroeconomy and Economic Growth
In the literature of export-growth linkages, the issue of export diversification draws a considerable interest in reducing risks associated with adverse and volatile terms of trade, slow productivity growth or relatively low-value addition in the global value chain....
by Selim Raihan | Oct 3, 2015 | Macroeconomy and Economic Growth
In the initial years of SAARC in the 1980s, the popular hypothesis for the reason behind limited intra-regional trade was the prevailing high tariff rate among the member countries. High tariff rates have come down substantially over the years since the formation of...
by Selim Raihan | Jul 6, 2015 | Trade and Regional Integration
There are strong arguments for deeper regional economic integration in South Asia. It is believed to have the potential for generating significant intra-regional trade and welfare gains for the countries involved. Deeper regional integration is supposed to provide...
by Selim Raihan | Jul 2, 2015 | Macroeconomy and Economic Growth
Looking at the trend in the investment-GDP ratio since 1979-80, we can suggest four different investment regimes in Bangladesh. The first regime (1979-80 to 1989-90) is characterized by a low level of investment-GDP ratio with an annual average of 16.5 percent. This...
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