SANEM Energy Outlook: Volume 1, Issue 3

The theme of the January 2025 issue is “Energy Transition in Bangladesh: Rethinking Subsidies, Renewables, and Efficiency”. The first page offers brief highlights of three articles featured inside the bulletin. The second, third, fourth, and fifth pages provide the details

SANEM Energy Outlook: Volume 1, Issue 2

The theme of the October 2024 issue is “Navigating the Energy Crisis: Strategic Reforms for Ensuring Energy Security”. The first page offers brief highlights of three articles featured inside the bulletin

SANEM Energy Outlook: Volume 1, Issue 1

SANEM proudly launched a quarterly energy bulletin named SANEM Energy Outlook in July 2024. The theme of the inaugural July 2024 issue is “Challenges of Energy Transition toward Green and Clean Energy”. The first page offers brief highlights of three articles featured inside the bulletin

Assessing the Socioeconomic Impacts of Digital Public Infrastructure

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) refers to foundational digital systems, such as digital identification, digital payments, and data exchange platforms; those enable efficient, inclusive, and transparent public service delivery. These systems act as the backbone of digital

Investment Diversification of Priority Sectors after LDC Graduation

As Bangladesh prepares to graduate from its Least Developed Country (LDC) status in 2026, the country faces both opportunities and challenges, particularly in terms of investment and economic sustainability

Expanding Private Investment in Bangladesh in the Context of LDC Graduation

Private investment fuels economic growth and sustainability. In this connection, Bangladesh’s graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status by November 2026 could impose

Is the Bangladesh Paradox Sustainable?

Bangladesh is widely seen as a ‘paradox’. Over the last quarter of a century, it has maintained economic growth and has outperformed many countries on social indicators while scoring very low on the quality of governance. Moreover, its economic progress does

The Belt and Road Initiative: Maximizing benefits, managing risks—A computable general equilibrium approach

Using a Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model, and China as the base for analytical comparison, this paper shows that there are significant economic benefits to China and the participating countries along all six Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) economic

Let’s Think Aloud, Shall We? Raihan S. (Ed). (2017) Dhaka, SANEM Publications

This book titled Let’s Think Aloud, Shall We? is a compilation of the articles and interviews published in SANEM’s monthly digest Thinking Aloud. SANEM’s Thinking Aloud embarked its journey in June, 2014. The inception of Thinking Aloud coined

The Dynamics of Economic Growth: A Visual Handbook of Growth Rates, Regimes, Transitions and Volatility

Why there are such significant and persistent differences in living standards across countries is one of the most important and challenging areas of development policy. In spite