Dr. Anwara Begum, Senior Research Fellow, BIDS attended the “2017 Asian Evaluation Week” held in Hangzhou, China from 4th to 8th September 2017. The event was organized by premier training institute of Ministry of Finance of the PRC, the Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute (AFDI) and...

Dr. K.A.S. Murshid represented BIDS and Bangladesh in the annual meeting of the Asian Think Tank Network (ATTN) held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 20-21 September, 2017. This was the 5th meeting of the network which is supported by ADB. This year's host was the Institute of Policy Studies in...

Dr. Kazi Ali Toufique, Research Director, BIDS attended the proposal writing workshop on, "Dried Fish Matters: Mapping the Social Economy of Dried Fish in South-East Asia for Enhanced Well-being and Nutrition" from 28th to 31st August, 2017 in the Department of Fisheries, Bangkhen, Bangkok,Thailand....

Dr. Anwara Begum, Senior Research Fellow, BIDS attended the “Stockholm Resilience Conference” from 20 to 23 August 2017 in Sweden. This conference was attended by researchers and practitioners who discussed resilience as a key lens for biosphere-based sustainability science. Dr. Anwara Begum...

Dr. Minhaj Mahmud, Senior Research Fellow, BIDS attended the 32nd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA) and 70th European Meeting of the Economic Society(ESEM) from 21 August 2017 to 25th August 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. Dr. Mahmud was invited by the University of Tokyo and...

Dr. Mohammad Yunus, Senior Research Fellow, BIDS, attended a conference titled “Understanding the Dynamics of Informal Cross-border Trade in Agricultural Products in Eastern South Asia” held in New Delhi, India on 4 August 2017 organized by the CUTS International.

Dr. Kazi Iqbal, Senior Research Fellow attended a two-day conference  titled “Caught in a Trap? Asia and the Pacific’s Middle-Income Countries at a Crossroads” held in Bangkok, Thailand from 20 to 21 June, 2017 organized by the Independent Evaluation Department of ADB

Dr. Minhaj Mahmud, Senior Research Fellow, BIDS attended the North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society 2017 held in Washington University St Louis USA, 15-18 June. He was invited by the University of Tokyo and presented his co-authored paper "Individualized Self-learning Program to...

Dr. Monzur Hossain, Senior Research Fellow attended a two-day event “Evaluation Training Program for Government Officials and Learning Event: Caught in a Trap? Asia and the Pacific’s Middle-Income Countries at a Crossroads” held in Bangkok from 20 to 21 June 2017 organized by the Independent...

Dr. Kazi Ali Toufique, Research Director, BIDS attended the final workshop of the GIZ funded research project "Aquaculture and the poor: improving fish production, consumption and nutrition linkages". He presented a paper in the workshop, titled "Managing Fisheries for Food Security: Implications...