Thinking Aloud: Volume V, Issue 4

The September 2018 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “economic growth”. The first page article titled “Does institution matter for the quality of growth?” presents an index of quality of economic growth’ (IQEG) which is constructed for 156 countries for 16 years between

Thinking Aloud: Volume V, Issue 3

This August 2018 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “Emerging challenges in the global trade regime”. The first article on “Can the world afford a full-scale trade war?” presents an analysis using the GTAP model, where a scenario of a large scale trade war between the USA and China

Thinking Aloud: Volume V, Issue 2

This July 2018 issue of Thinking Aloud focuses on “Industrialization”. The first article on “The road to rapid industrialization in Bangladesh” highlights four major issues which need to be in order for a rapid industrialization in Bangladesh. First, the need for second-generation strategic and dynamic

Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 6

This November 2017 issue of Thinking Aloud comes with the theme “Education”. The first article “Is the education sector in Bangladesh ready to take the challenges of the coming decades?” suggests that despite that Bangladesh made considerable progress in gross-enrolment

Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 5

This October 2017 issue of Thinking Aloud comes with the theme “Health”. The first article “Challenges for Bangladesh in achieving the Goal 3 of SDGs” indicates that the progress in Bangladesh between 1990 and 2015 in maternal mortality, infant and child mortality and life expectancy was noteworthy. In 2015, Bangladesh’s status was better than India

Thinking Aloud: Volume IV, Issue 4

The September, 2017 issue of Thinking Aloud comes with the theme of ‘employment and labor market challenges for South Asia’. The first article on “Are we entering into a ‘jobless’ growth phase in South Asia?” focuses on a timely concern that, although South Asia has been