Newsletter Vol. 6   Issue 1  June 2018Pdf

Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) organized a seminar titled “Adolescent exposure to and attitude towards violence: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh” on 29 August, 2018, Wednesday at BIDS Seminar Room. The paper was presented by by Dr. K.A.S. Murshid, DG, BIDS.The study...

Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) jointly organised a workshop on the study "Gender Differentiated Impacts of Kerosene Pricing Reform on Rural Households of Bangladesh” on 28 August, 2018 at Pan Pacific Sonargaon...

Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) organized a seminar titled “Non-Financial Incentives, Selectivity and Performance of Volunteers: Evidence from a Large Scale Natural Field Experiment” on 13 August, 2018, Monday at BIDS Seminar Room. The paper was presented by Dr. Asadul Islam,...

BIDS announces with great sadness the sudden death of Mr. A.H.M. Moazzem Hossain, Editor, The Financial Express on 1 August, 2018. Mr. Hossain was one of the senior fellows of BIDS  from 2010 to 2017. He was an internationally renowned journalist and also worked for The New Nation, United News...

Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) organised a seminar titled “Is there nexus between remittances and private adaptation strategy to cope against natural disaster events? Evidence from the Cyclone Sidr hit regions in southern Bangladesh” by Dr. Sakib Mahmud, University of...

Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) organised a seminar titled “Demand Estimation with Strategic Complementarities: Sanitation in Bangladesh" by Dr. Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor , Department of Economics, Yale University, USA on 11 July,2018 at BIDS Seminar Room. The...

“Bangla New Year 1425” was celebrated on 15th April, 2018 at BIDS premise. The staff of BIDS organized a joyous and colorful cultural programme. Traditional dishes like ‘muri-murki’, sweets, green mango juice, pitha-puli, jilapi, chotpoti etc were served in the event. Dr. K A S Murshid,...

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BIDS announce with great sadness the sudden death of Ms. Simeen Mahmud on 19 March, 2018. Ms. Mahmud joined the Institute in 1974 and retired in 2008 as a Research Director. She was a demographer by training but also wrote extensively on microcredit, health, employment and gender issues.