Commentary
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- Blog Post
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Feb 3, 2026
- Blog Post
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Feb 3, 2026
- Blog Post
- Sultana Yeasmin
- Jan 15, 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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How costly are the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh?
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Feb 1, 2015
Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts because of its vast low-lying areas, large coastal population, high population density, inadequate infrastructure, and high dependence on natural resources. For Bangladesh, climate change manifests [....]
- 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
The challenging economics of climate change
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Dec 9, 2018
Global climate change has become one of the dominant discourses in the scientific and public policy arena. Studies from scientific research show that the global warming is now a real phenomenon, as there has been an unusually rapid increase in Earth’s average [....]
- Blog Post
Food insecurity: How concerned should we be?
- Dr Selim Raihan
- May 6, 2024
The persistent high inflationary pressures in Bangladesh over the last two years have heightened concerns regarding the erosion of food security among a large section of the population of the country. Food security in Bangladesh is of paramount importance due to the country’s [....]
