The Hospitality and Tourism Sector (HTS) is one of the 15 major sectors that are used to estimate the GDP of the country. The COVID-19 pandemic took its toll on the economic activities that cater to non-essential demands such as the HTS. This study analyzes the current status of the HTS and...

Uploaded Date : 2022-05-12

Over one fifth or 22% (over 32 million) of the total population of Bangladesh, a densely populated country in South Asia currently falls under the 10 to 19 years age group (UNICEF (2017), an age group defined as adolescence by WHO, (2014). Despite notable progress in poverty reduction and driving...

Uploaded Date : 2022-01-17

National Information Platform for Nutrition (NIPN) is a project supported by the European Union and implemented by the Helen Keller International in partnership with Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), with active collaboration of Statistics and Informatics Division (SID)/BBS, Food...

Uploaded Date : 2021-12-26

Dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease, poses a tremendous threat to public health and imposes a substantial economic burden in Bangladesh. A growing literature shows that dengue imposes an enormous socioeconomic burden on households, health care systems, and health expenditures by the governments...

Uploaded Date : 2021-12-09

In the period 2010-16 (HIES 2016 and World Bank Poverty Assessment Report 2019), poverty (upper and lower poverty lines) reduced to 25% of the population, with the extremely poor (lower poverty line) at 11% of total population estimated at 162 million, therefore approximately 18 million people. •...

Uploaded Date : 2021-09-30

Efficient and productive human resources are the crucial prerequisites for economic growth and social development of Bangladesh, more particularly in the context of global technological advancement. Productive and efficient utilization of resources is ensured when the entire labour force of a...

Uploaded Date : 2021-08-29

Paddy/rice procurement program as a form of price support for the rice producers is widely practiced mechanism in Bangladesh. The purposes of procurement program are providing income supports to the farmers and building stocks for the public food grain distribution system (PFDS). By this process,...

Uploaded Date : 2021-07-19

In Bangladesh, there are nearly 7.9 million SMEs including micro enterprises contributing to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at an estimated 25% (Asian Development Bank (ADB) 2015) . SMEs account for 11% of the country’s industrial establishments, 30% of industrial employment and 40% of the...

Uploaded Date : 2021-02-18

The aims of the project Decent Wage Bangladesh phase 1 aimed to gain insight in actual wages, the cost of living and the collective labour agreements in four low-paid sectors in three regions of Bangladesh, in order to strengthen the power of trade unions. The project received funding from...

Uploaded Date : 2021-01-31

This is an exploratory exercise which attempts to identify the potential for carrying out online socio-economic surveys in Bangladesh, taking the question of ‘educated unemployment’ as a test case. The topic is of great interest not just in Bangladesh but also throughout South Asia and beyond,...

Uploaded Date : 2020-12-21