Socioeconomic impact of migration: An empirical approach

The purpose of this study is to explore how international migration creates a differential impact on socioeconomic condition of households with an international migrant through empirical analysis. Migration and remittance has become a major part of Bangladesh economy, contribution to 7.9% of the country’s GDP in 2015 and around 49 % of total export earnings. A large number of Bangladeshi workers are employed in Middle East and other various countries in the world such as Malaysia. However,...

Higher fish but lower micronutrient intakes: Temporal...

The paper conducts a temporal analysis of fish consumption and nutrient intakes from fish in Bangladesh, using nationally representative household expenditure surveys from 1991, 2000 and 2010, combined with detailed species-level nutrient composition data. Malnutrition is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century, with one in three people in the world malnourished, combined with poor diets being the leading cause of the global burden of disease. Fish is an under-recognised and...

Volume XXXIX, March-June 2016, Number 1&2

• Challenges of Missing Data in Analyses of Aid Activity: The Case of US Aid Activity
• An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Monetary Policy Stance and Stock Price in Bangladesh
• Formal vs. Informal Seeds: Adoption and Productivity Differences

• স্বয়ম্ভরতার স্বপ্ন ও তথ্য বিভ্রাট
• স্বাস্থ্য ক্ষেত্রে সুশাসনের প্রেক্ষাপটে বাংলাদেশে সরকারি স্বাস্থ্যকেন্দ্রের সেবার মান
• বাংলাদেশের স্থানীয় সরকার প্রতিষ্ঠানসমূহের উন্নয়নে প্রকল্পভিত্তিক কার্যক্রমের বিশ্লেষণ
• আঞ্চলিক ট্রানজিট ও বাংলাদেশ: কতিপয় বিবেচ্য বিষয়
• বাংলাদেশের কৃষির প্রবৃদ্ধি, প্রবৃদ্ধির উৎস এবং কৃষির কাঠামোগত রূপান্তর

Vol. 4 Issue 2 December 2016

This Newsletter is the second issue for the year 2016 and begins with highlights of an extensive study sponsored by the ADB, which examines labour supply and demand, and emerging skill gaps pertaining to ten potentially promising sectors of the Bangladesh economy. Besides the ten sector studies for ADB, several other research studies were completed, from which five completed ones have been reported in this issue. About a dozen studies are in the pipeline. Out of these, seven studies have...

Visit of Dr. Azizur Rahman Khan

Dr. Azizur Rahman Khan, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of California Riverside, USA visited BIDS and gave a talk on the topic “Bangladesh: The Next Asian Tiger?” on 12th February at 3 P.M. In the seminar Dr. A R Khan talked about possibilities of Bangladesh being the next Asian tiger. He also presented some facts and figures on the social indicators of development, employment scenario of Bangladesh and India, growth rate, export-GDP ratio, investment and savings and trend in the...