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Innovative, independent, peer-reviewed. Explore the latest economic research and policy proposals from SANEM’s global development experts.
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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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COP30: A Milestone Marked by Missed Chances
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Dec 4, 2025
When the 30th session of the COP30 concluded on November 22, 2025, in Belém, Brazil, many left the Amazon-flanked venue with a sense that the summit had once again delivered more promise than payoff. On paper, the so-called Belém Package, a bundle of 29 decisions agreed by 195 Parties [....]
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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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Rethinking ways to attain SDGs in Bangladesh
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Feb 4, 2024
Can Bangladesh achieve SDGs through the business-as-usual process? What is the progress in attaining SDGs so far? Why is there a need for a rethinking of the ways to attain SDGs in Bangladesh? [....]
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Sustainable development and the inclusion question: A look at the Indian situation
- Sarthi Acharya
- Feb 4, 2024
India aims to achieve US$5 trillion in GDP soon. Yet, there is an active debate on people’s standards of living, inequality and lack of employment in the country. The question is, whether the quest for high growth is sustainable when large numbers in the population are not partners in this growth process? [....]
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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’ [....]
