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- Dr Selim Raihan
- Feb 3, 2026
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- Sultana Yeasmin
- Jan 15, 2026
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- Dr Selim Raihan
- Jan 7, 2026
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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Empowering Bangladesh’s Private Sector: Three Post-LDC Strategies
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Apr 30, 2025
The domestic private sector is the pillar of Bangladesh’s economic growth, job generation, and export competitiveness. While the country is graduating from the LDC status in 2026 and targets to be an upper-middle-income country in the future, the development of private sector capabilities is a prerequisite [....]
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Why is our public spending on education still so shockingly low?
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Dec 15, 2022
Since it boosts individual productivity and produces a trained labour force, education is seen as a crucial road to economic progress. However, in most countries, there are clear examples of market failure when it comes to education since, in a free market, education is under-consumed [....]
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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 [....]
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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’ [....]
Governing emerging development challenges: A South Asian perspective
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Apr 18, 2019
espite the divergence in economic and political trajectories, South Asian countries share commonalities with respect to the urge for governing emerging development challenges in the wake of the new world and regional dynamics. As far as future economic and social developments are [....]
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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 [....]
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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 [....]
