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Economic Impacts of AMR
SANEM set out to estimate the future economic burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by 2050. We looked at the impact of AMR on four sectors of the economy: health system, the labour market, tourism, and domestic hospitality. We also estimated the return on investment of several interventions to prevent AMR.
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Making the most of the demographic dividend
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Jan 19, 2016
For long, debates among economists and social scientists on the impact of population change on economic development centered on positions that population growth either restricts, promotes, or is independent of economic development. Despite the merits of these views [....]
- Blog Post
How to tackle ‘entitlement failure’ in infrastructure?
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Feb 1, 2016
In the discourse on infrastructure and economic growth, the dominant area of discussion is on the quantity and quality of infrastructure and how countries differ in these respects. While most of the countries emphasize a lot on investing in raising the quantity (and quality) of infrastructure [....]
- Blog Post
How does improvement in infrastructure affect economic growth?
- Dr Selim Raihan, Sunera Saba Khan
- Mar 1, 2016
Infrastructure plays a decisive role in stimulating long-run economic growth. An increase in the level of infrastructure stock directly helps in reducing poverty and accelerating productivity. Infrastructure also contributes to the development process through the provision [....]
- Blog Post
Is Bangladesh poised for leaping towards a middle-income country?
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Mar 1, 2016
Bangladesh has recently been upgraded from low-income country (LIC) to lower-middle-income country (LMIC) as per the World Bank’s classification. There is an aspiration for graduating from the LDC status to that of a middle-income country by 2021 as per the United Nations [....]
- Blog Post
Why should Bangladesh integrate more with East and Southeast Asia?
- Dr Selim Raihan, Sunera Saba Khan
- Apr 1, 2016
The Bangladesh economy over the past two and half decades has been experiencing a steady rise in economic growth rate which has been accompanied by the country’s increasing trade-GDP ratio. The economy has become more and more trade-oriented. However, when it comes to integrating [....]
