Bangladesh can create millions of jobs in its garment sector by raising productivity of people and improving social and environmental compliance, the World Bank said in a book launching ceremony hosted jointly with Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) on 2 May 2016. The study Stitches...
BIDS Critical Conversation 2016 A two-day long conference was held at the BICC on 23 and 24 April, 2016 addressing the “Bangladesh Journey”. This was an opportunity to involve policy makers and a broad spectrum of academics, experts and civil society members in a genuine conversation on the journe...
Dr. Pradeep Mitra, Senior Consultant, IEG Human Development and Economic Management Department, World Bank and Ms. Kathryn Steingraber, Evaluation Analyst, World Bank visited the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies to discuss what impacts World Bank interventions in agriculture and rural dev...
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies organized a seminar on “The Security of Agency: Towards a Sociology of Poverty” presented by Professor Emeritus Geoff Wood from the University of Bath, held on Wednesday, 9 March, 2016 at 3.00 PM at the BIDS Conference Room. The eminent Social Anthro...
A Memorial Meeting was held in honour of Late Dr. Mahabub Hossain, former DG, BIDS, in the BIDS Conference Room on 25 February, 2016 at 3 pm. The Director General of BIDS, Dr. KAS Murshid warmly welcomed the guests and invited Professor Wahiduddin Mahmud to chair the session. Later, a brief presenta...
BIDS has recently signed a MoU with South Asian University (SAU) in New Delhi, India, which was established by the SAARC nations. Through this collaboration, these two unique institutions have promised to mutually work together to promote academic excellence and regional understanding through collab...
As in the past, BIDS has set up a bookstall in the Bangla Academy premises this year as well as part of the annual “boi mela” held in commemoration of the martyrs of the language movement of 1952. The mela draws a large number of book lovers, academics, poets, novelists and writers along with studen...
Dr. Mahabub Hossain, former Director General of BIDS (10/2/1989 to 9/2/1992) passed away at Cleveland Clinic, USA, on 3 January, 2016 (Around 2:00 am Bangladesh time this morning). (Inna lillah ...). He was 71 years old at the time of his death (02/01/1945 to 03/01/2016). Dr. Mahabub Hossain w...
Dr. Muhammed Muqtada, former director of policy planning in the employment sector, International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva visited BIDS on 27th December, 2015 at 11:00am and shared his insights on current labour and employment issues facing Bangladesh. This prompted a lively and extremely pr...
Chief Economist, World Bank, Professor Kaushik Basu visited BIDS on December 12, 2015 at 5:30 pm and engaged in a lively exchange with BIDS researchers, sharing his perspectives on development policy and views on a number of critical issues in development economics, particularly on markets, exchange...