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Bangladesh

Charting a path forward for Bangladesh’s development

Bangladesh has established some of the most ambitious economic development goals in the world — hoping to attain upper middle-income status by 2031. What are the challenges that Bangladesh faces in achieving these development goals, and how can the country maintain its impressive economic track record to close the growth gap?

These are the pressing questions that our scholars at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia work every day to answer. Explore the events, research, and commentary below to learn more about our work.


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Powering Bangladesh’s Future: Risks and Opportunities in Solar Energy Deployment
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Occasional Paper

Powering Bangladesh’s Future: Risks and Opportunities in Solar Energy Deployment

This policy paper aims to provide an analysis of the current state of the solar power industry in Bangladesh, identifying the gaps and risks associated with the implementation of the government’s renewable energy goals.

Bangladesh’s Inflationary Bias
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Policy Brief

Bangladesh’s Inflationary Bias

The challenge in this policy note is to look beyond the transitory factors in Bangladesh that have moved relative prices up (or down) to identify the longer-term factors that generate and sustain general price increases and to explain why those factors endure.

Bangladesh’s Tax-to-GDP Ratio
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Policy Brief

Bangladesh’s Tax-to-GDP Ratio

The tax-to-GDP ratio in Bangladesh has been exceptionally low, both absolutely and relative to the nation’s peers, for the last five decades. An excellent starting point for reform would be the World Bank’s recent proposals for enhanced revenue mobilization, which build upon the long-delayed reforms.

Exchange Rate Management in Bangladesh
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Policy Brief

Exchange Rate Management in Bangladesh

This policy note discusses the macroeconomic difficulties in Bangladesh created by the counterproductive manipulation of the exchange rate from the mid-2000s and suggests potential remedies.

Budget Compression in Bangladesh
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Policy Brief

Budget Compression in Bangladesh

The study aimed to determine if Bangladesh’s decades-long high-level performance contradicted the widely accepted “stylized fact” among development specialists that “institutions matter.”

Tax System Digitalization to Enhance Revenue Mobilization in Bangladesh
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Policy Brief

Tax System Digitalization to Enhance Revenue Mobilization in Bangladesh

This policy brief focuses on improving tax implementation, with the hope that the impact of administrative reforms will be accelerated and amplified if undertaken simultaneously with fundamental tax policy reform.

Rajawali Semester in Review
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Feature

Rajawali Semester in Review

This past semester, the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia engaged in conversations and research on topics ranging from Indonesia’s election to US-Taiwan relations with the goal of continuing to develop policy solutions to the region’s most pressing concerns.