by Selim Raihan | Jan 19, 2016 | Macroeconomy and Economic Growth
For long, debates among economists and social scientists on the impact of population change on economic development centered on positions that population growth either restricts, promotes, or is independent of economic development. Despite the merits of these views, a...
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 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...
by Selim Raihan | Jun 11, 2015 | Macroeconomy and Economic Growth
Manufacturing is now an overwhelmingly salient component of Bangladesh’s export composition, thanks largely to the rapid expansion of the garment industry. From a small base of only around US$ 32 million in 1984, garment exports have grown to around US$ 25 billion by...
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