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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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Cross-country differences in income inequality: Where do South Asian countries stand?
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Sep 10, 2016
In recent years, there has been a growing interest among general people, researchers and policymakers in income inequality, its causes, and its effects. The most popular index of income inequality is the ‘Gini index’ which measures the inequality among levels of income [....]
- Blog Post
How do public education and health spending reduce poverty?
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Dec 4, 2017
an recent decades, the developing world has made important progress in reducing extreme poverty. The data from the World Bank shows that the number of people living below the international poverty line of US$ 1.9 a day dwindled down from 1.85 billion people in 1990 to 768.5 million [....]
- Blog Post
The challenging arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Dec 4, 2017
Bangladesh has made important progress in reducing poverty over the past one and half decades. According to the national estimates, the overall head-count poverty fell from as high [....]
- Blog Post
Hiccups of ‘Bangladesh Development Surprise’
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Apr 18, 2019
Bangladesh’s economic growth and development performance over the past two decades have been impressive. With the poor quality of institutions, such a performance has often been termed as a ‘development surprise’ or ‘Bangladesh paradox’ [....]
- Blog Post
Creating new opportunities for employment in Bangladesh
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Apr 18, 2019
Bangladesh’s economic growth and development experience over the past four and half decades, since the Independence in 1971, have generated a lot of interests among the academics and development practitioners both from home and abroad [....]
