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Some Takeaways from the Food Security Assessment and FIES Survey 2023
- Mohammad Asaduzzaman
- Jul 3, 2024
For the first time in Bangladesh, the Food Security Assessment and Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) Survey 2023 is conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). It is a nationally representative survey hoping to provide evidence-based data and information on food security [....]
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Renewable energy in budget FY 23-24: understanding the shortfall
- Mohammad Asaduzzaman, Omar Raad Chowdhury
- Oct 22, 2023
Bangladesh aims to generate 40% electricity from renewable sources by 2041. However, the previous target of producing 10% of total electricity from RE by 2020 is far from being realised. Currently, only 3.7% of the total energy mix consists of renewable sources [....]
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Can BIMSTEC rise to meet the new challenges?
- Achyut Bhandari, Dr Selim Raihan, Ganeshan Wignaraja, Nihal Pitigala, Posh Raj Pandey, Prabir De, Watcharas Leelawath
- Apr 10, 2022
The 5th summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) ended on March 30, 2022, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The summit adopted a charter for the first time since its inception in 1997 and signed three memorandums [....]
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Streamlining food market: Introducing AMIS
- Jonead, Md. Jahid Ebn Jalal
- Mar 18, 2020
Bangladesh is primarily an agrarian economy. Agriculture is the largest productive sector of the economy employing around 50 percent of the total labour force. Performance of this sector has a tremendous impact on major macroeconomic goals such [....]
