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Occasional Paper
As Bangladesh considers options for decarbonizing its economy, this occasional paper explores complementary approaches to meet clean energy goals while upskilling the labor force and developing the economy.
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Occasional Paper
As Bangladesh considers options for decarbonizing its economy, this occasional paper explores complementary approaches to meet clean energy goals while upskilling the labor force and developing the economy.
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As a new administration takes shape in Washington, join us for a timely discussion exploring the complex dynamics shaping the Indo-Pacific region. We will examine critical questions facing U.S.-Taiwan relations, regional security architecture, and economic partnerships across the Indo-Pacific. The discussion addressed key policy challenges including defense cooperation, trade relationships, and technological partnerships.
Policy Brief
This policy brief explores the macroeconomic challenges posed by the politcal upheaval of July-August 2025 and explains that with serious and sustained reform, the country can overcome these hurdles and pursue inclusive growth and development.
Occasional Paper
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.
Policy Brief
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.
Policy Brief
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.
Policy Brief
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.
Policy Brief
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.”
Policy Brief
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.