Seminar on " Demand Estimation with Strategic Complementarities: Sanitation in Bangladesh" by Dr. Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor , Department of Economics, Yale University, USA held.

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 presentation made by Dr. Mobarak, pointed out that in sanitation, subsidies should be targeted to the poor and in high density areas. He also indicated that widely dispersing subsidies produce larger spillover effects on the unsubsidized, without costing the government anymore. 

The seminar was attended by BIDS researchers, academics and media. Dr. K.A.S Murshid, DG, BIDS chaired the seminar.