Thinking Aloud: Volume VI, Issue 12
The February, 2016 issue of Thinking Aloud is on Infrastructure and Economic Growth. The first article on “How to tackle ‘entitlement failure’ in infrastructure?” argues that several supply-side constraints related to weak infrastructure can restrict economic diversification. Some of these constraints
Thinking Aloud: Volume II, Issue 12
The theme of May 1, 2016 issue of Thinking Aloud is “Productivity”. The article on “Why do countries differ in total factor productivity?” argues that Total Factor Productivity (TFP) plays a key role in economic fluctuations, economic growth and cross-country differences
Thinking Aloud: Volume VII, Issue 6
The November 2020 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “COVID-19 and Development Challenges”. The first-page article titled “COVID-19 and the road to recovery in Bangladesh” emphasizes that the current discussion on the recovery needs to change
SANEM-AAB: Converging Trajectories Gender and Technology Perspective for Youth Development
Harnessing youth power of a nation is considered as one of the key instruments for economic and social progress along with sustainable development. Proper utilization of young people’s potential through
COVID-19 and Business Confidence in Bangladesh: Findings from the 3rd Round of Nationwide Firm-level Survey in January 2021
Since the first local case of COVID-19 in March and the subsequent lockdown, Bangladesh has been heavily affected by the pandemic – the impact of which has now spanned over the entirety of 2020
The Impact of the COVID Pandemic on the Cost of Production and Orders in Bangladesh
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed, and exacerbated, the power imbalance along the value chain between the producers of the global south and the buyers of the global north. The Ready-Made Garment
COVID-19 and Business Confidence in Bangladesh: Findings from the 6th Round of Nationwide Firm-level Survey in October 2021
COVID-19 had a tremendous economic impact on Bangladesh, especially in 2020, with massive business losses and closures, as well as an increase in unemployment and poverty
Impact of COVID-19 on Labour Market and Migration in Bangladesh
Although COVID-19 was primarily a health risk, the lockdown that was imposed as a precaution to contain the spread of the virus caused severe economic crises all over the world. The situation was no different
COVID-19 and Business Confidence in Bangladesh: Findings from the 7th Round of Nationwide Firm-level Survey in January 2022
The seventh round of the Business Confidence Index (BCI) survey commenced in January 2022—at a time when the country had entered a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the new Omicron
Mahtab Uddin
Mahtab Uddin is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Dhaka and Honorary Research Director of the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM). He is also a doctoral researcher at the University of Manchester, UK. His research spans labour and development economics, applied microeconometrics, and international trade. His recent works have examined […]
