How does public investment affect private investment?
The importance of investment in economic growth is well acknowledged both in theory and empirical literature. No country has been able to accelerate economic growth without significantly increasing the investment-GDP ratio. However, there are disagreements among...
Evaluation of Healthcare Development in Bangladesh
The conceptual framework of ‘a healthy nation being a wealthy one’ has received global recognition. In the past, economies strived in achieving development without much emphasis on improving its social indicators. However, as time progressed the concept of development...
The challenging arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh
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%...
How do public education and health spending reduce poverty?
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...
Can Bangladesh continue to grow without ‘good governance’?
If we look at the growth pattern of Bangladesh from 1990, we discover two specific characteristics: first, the growth rate has been on the rise, and second, it is less volatile compared to those of many other countries (for example, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, China,...
Tapping on the trade-investment nexus for improving bilateral economic cooperation between Bangladesh and India
Bangladesh and India have long bonds in culture and history. Despite such bonds and neighborly proximity, economic cooperation between the two countries has remained far below potential. A number of studies have shown that bilateral trade and investment offer immense...
Sub-regional cooperation can be the answer to the deadlock of regional integration in South Asia
Though there is a strong demand for deeper regional integration in South Asia, the progress has been rather slow. The actual implementation of agreements often does not match the declared ambitions, and in this context, lack of political will and leadership,...
Cross-country differences in income inequality: Where do South Asian countries stand?
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...
Does employment status matter for the wellbeing of rural households in Bangladesh?
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...
Dynamics of economic growth in Bangladesh
Selim Raihan and Wahid Ferdous Ibon Rapid and sustained economic growth is very critical for Bangladesh's economy in its way towards a middle-income country. In this article, we have investigated the major determinants of economic growth in Bangladesh using time...
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