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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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Streamlining food market: Introducing AMIS
- Jonead, Md. Jahid Ebn Jalal
- Mar 18, 2020
Bangladesh is primarily an agrarian economy. Agriculture is the largest productive sector of the economy employing around 50 percent of the total labour force. Performance of this sector has a tremendous impact on major macroeconomic goals such [....]
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Unearthing Bangladesh’s Comparative Advantages
- Dr Selim Raihan, Md. Jillur Rahman
- Jun 1, 2016
The analysis of comparative advantage is important from the policy perspective. Trade policies of a country should be tuned to promote export items where the country has a comparative advantage. The Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) analysis, suggested [....]
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Does export orientation lead to higher productivity? Firm-level evidence from Bangladesh
- Dr Selim Raihan, Mir Tanzim Nur Angkur, Nafiz Ifteakhar
- May 1, 2016
For long, empirical studies on the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, used data at the country or industry level to test whether exports promote productivity growth or vice versa. However, a series of empirical studies since the early [....]
