Dr Mohammad Yunus, Senior Research Fellow, BIDS attended an International Roundtable Conference on “Trade and Transit Cooperation on Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN)” held on 04-05 October, 2016 in India.

Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of child marriage worldwide and the highest rate of marriage involving girls under 15. Fifty-two percent of girls are married by their 18th birthday and 18% by the age of 15. As well as strongly embedded cultural and religious beliefs, poverty, parents’...

Dr. Anwara Begum, Senior Research Fellow, attended the International Workshop on "Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation", held in Kolkata, India, from 29th August to 2 September 2016.

Mr. Anis Chowdhury, Former UN-ESCAP Director and Former Professor of Economics of University of Western Sydney visited BIDS on 21 August, 2016 at 3:00pm and gave a presentation which provided critical overview of the key elements of the development macroeconomic policies pursued/recommended...

The Year 2016 began auspiciously, ushering in a period of intense professional activity. A total of five studies were completed in the last six months while quite a few more came on stream. Amongst the concluded studies, we have a review of the role of rice prices in development, summarized in...

The consultation meeting on “Skills and Employment Baseline Assessment of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (ITP) in Bangladesh” was held at BIDS conference room on 10th August 2016. Mr. Gagan Rajbhandari the Deputy Director of the ILO Country Office for Bangladesh delivered the welcome speech. He...

Mr Akhter M Chaudhury, FCA, Chairman of Nuvista Pharmaceuticals visited BIDS on August 7, 2016, as a guest speaker in the Sunday Talk Series and shared his thoughts and insights on key constraints, export challenges and competitive edge of pharmaceuticals industry of Bangladesh. He said...

Dr. K. A. Toufique, Research Director, BIDS participated in an international conference titled ’Evaluation Learning Event: Making Cities More Liveable High Level Conference on Cities and Middle Income Countries” organized by ADB on July 12, 2016.

Dr. M. Harunur Rashid Bhuyan, Research Fellow, BIDS participated in an international conference titled ’Evaluation Learning Event: Making Cities More Liveable High Level Conference on Cities and Middle Income Countries” organized by ADB on July 12, 2016.

Dr. Binayak Sen, Research Director, BIDS participated in an international workshop titled “Poverty and Inclusive Growth Website’ in China held on June 22-24, 2016.