by Selim Raihan | Apr 18, 2019 | Human Capital Development
Bangladesh’s economic growth and development performance over the past two decades have been impressive. With the poor quality of institutions, such a performance has often been termed as a ‘development surprise’ or ‘Bangladesh paradox’. But is it at all a ‘surprise’...
by Selim Raihan | Apr 18, 2019 | Human Capital Development, Macroeconomy and Economic Growth, Trade and Regional Integration
Despite the divergence in economic and political trajectories, South Asian countries share commonalities with respect to the urge for governing emerging development challenges in the wake of the new world and regional dynamics. As far as future economic and social...
by Selim Raihan | Dec 4, 2017 | Human Capital Development, Macroeconomy and Economic Growth, Poverty and Inequality
Bangladesh has made important progress in reducing poverty over the past one and half decades. According to the national estimates, the overall head-count poverty fell from as high as 48.9% in 2000 to 24.3% in 2016. Also, extreme poverty fell from 34.3% to 12.9%...
by Selim Raihan | Dec 4, 2017 | Human Capital Development, Macroeconomy and Economic Growth, Poverty and Inequality
In recent decades, the developing world has made important progress in reducing extreme poverty. The data from the World Bank shows that the number of people living below the international poverty line of US$ 1.9 a day dwindled down from 1.85 billion people in 1990 to...
by Selim Raihan | Sep 10, 2016 | Human Capital Development, Macroeconomy and Economic Growth
In recent years, there has been a growing interest among general people, researchers and policymakers in income inequality, its causes, and its effects. The most popular index of income inequality is the ‘Gini index’ which measures the inequality among levels of...
by Selim Raihan | Sep 2, 2016 | Human Capital Development, Migration and Labor Market
Does employment status matter for the wellbeing of rural households in Bangladesh? Selim Raihan and Fatima Tuz Zohora In rural Bangladesh, a great challenge is to tackle the low pay, poor-quality jobs that are unrecognized and unprotected by law, widespread...
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