Applications are invited from bona fide Bangladeshi nationals for filling a few posts of Research Associate at NPS 2009 Tk. 11000-490x7-14430-EB 540x11-20370/-. Starting gross salary will include admissible allowances....details

The Government of Bangladesh has used subsidies for decades to promote a wide range of social and economic objectives. Subsidies have wide-ranging impacts on the distribution of wealth economic growth and the environment. The focus of this guide is energy subsidies, which receive a large share of subsidy spending in Bangladesh. The guide discusses the size of subsidies to different energy types, the segments of society that benefit the most, and how they affect the country’s economy and environment. It also highlights the process of reforming energy subsidies, drawing on the experience of Bangladesh and other developing countries.Please click here to download the paper

A press conference was held at BIDS conference room on 09 April 2012 to disseminate the findings of Post Enumeration Check (PEC) Survey conducted by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) as a part of Population and Housing Census 2011.Please click here to download the press Release and here for Full report.

Dr. Rushidan Islam Rahman’s latest book:  Bangladesher Orthonity O Unnayan: Shwadhinotar Por Chollish Bochhor (Bangladesh’s Economic Growth and Development: 40 Years After Independence), February, 2012 Has been published by Shahitya Prokash,   87  Purana Palton Lane (Palton Tower, 7th floor, Ph-9355058) The book includes analysis of the changes in the economy of Bangladesh over the last forty years, identifies the constraints faced in the development process and provides suggestions for easing the constraints.
Dr. Rushidan Islam Rahman is a Research Director of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. The Content of the book can be downloaded by clicking here.