BIDS arranged its annual picnic event of 2017 on 4th February for the staffs and their families. The picnic destination was Padma Resort in Louhaganj, a 100 minute drive from Dhaka city and then just a five minute boat ride. The whole day passed with fun and fervor. There were arrangements of a...

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...

Dr. K.A.S Murshid, Director General, BIDS attended the Global Research Consortium on Economics Structural Transformation (GReCEST) Conference on 13-14 December,2017 in Beijing, China.The two-day conference focused on mutual learning sessions on structural transformation initiatives among consortium...

BIDS Research Almanac, 2016 was held on 7th and 8th December in Dhaka. This annual research dissemination program was organized with a view to discussing the recent research findings of BIDS Researchers. In the whole span of the two-day event, 11 papers and five posters were presented in five...

Dr S M  Zahedul Islam Chowdhury, Research Fellow, BIDS attended and presented a paper at the 14th Annual SANEI Conference held on 7-8 November, 2016 at Nepa Hall, Radisson Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal organized by South Asian Network of Economic Research Institutes (SANEI).He has presented a paper...

Dr S M  Zahedul Islam Chowdhury, Research Fellow, BIDS attended and presented a paper at the 14th Annual SANEI Conference held on 7-8 November, 2016 at Nepa Hall, Radisson Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal organized by South Asian Network of Economic Research Institutes (SANEI).He has presented a paper...

Dr Nazneen Ahmed, Senior Research Fellow, BIDS attended the third North East Asia Development cooperation forum-2016 held on 28 -29 October, 2016 in Jiangsu, China.  Researchers and practitioners of development cooperation mostly from four North-East Asian countries, namely China, Japan,...

Dr K A S Murshid, Director General, BIDS attended the ADB-Asian Think Tank Development Forum 2016 on 27-28 October , 2016 in New Delhi, India. This year's theme was ‘Promoting Sustainable Urbanization in Asia and the Pacific.” There were three major sessions for this forum: Economic Outlook...

Dr. K A Toufique, Research Director, BIDS participated in an International Seminar titled “ The One-Belt and One-Road Initiative in the Global Context’ which was held on 23-24 September, 2016 in Beijing, China.

Dr K A S Murshid, Director General, BIDS attended ‘Global Think Tank Summit 2016’ held on 28 September, 2016 in Montreal, Canada. The theme of the Global Summit is Responding to Globalization and Its Discontents: The Role of Think Tanks: Populism, nationalism, nativism and protectionism are...