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Governing emerging development challenges: A South Asian perspective
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Apr 18, 2019
espite the divergence in economic and political trajectories, South Asian countries share commonalities with respect to the urge for governing emerging development challenges in the wake of the new world and regional dynamics. As far as future economic and social developments are [....]
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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 [....]
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How does public investment affect private investment?
- Dr Selim Raihan
- Nov 18, 2018
he importance of investment in economic growth is well acknowledged both in theory and empirical literature. No country has been able to accelerate economic growth without significantly increasing the investment-GDP ratio. However, there are disagreements among economists [....]
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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 [....]
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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 [....]
