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The Bitter Economics of Brain Drain
- Neeladri Naviya Noveli
- Oct 21, 2025
The exodus of highly educated youth from Bangladesh reveals a tangled web of barriers facing the country’s brightest minds. Poor quality of education, bureaucratic red tape, political instability, and lack of opportunities for growth are among the common reasons that drive thousands of young adults out of the country [....]
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What do young people think about reform?
- Neeladri Naviya Noveli, Shafa Tasneem
- Aug 18, 2025
July Uprising was not just a political upheaval; it was a call of political awakening for an otherwise apolitical generation, who now not only participates in politics but has opinions and everything. For decades, “youth” has been a buzz word in election campaigns, political agenda, news reports and in novels- that [....]
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Gravity of rural-urban migration and its impact on Bangladesh
- Mir Ashrafun Nahar
- 18 May, 2020
Moreover, Bangladesh is a densely-populated country with a population of 161.36 million in 2018 against 103.17 million in 1990. Population growth was showing a decreasing trend as it reached 1.05 percent by 2018 though it was 2.43 percent in 1990. In such a context [....]
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Export diversification: Pathway to sustainable growth
- Mir Ashrafun Nahar
- Mar 16, 2020
Export diversification is a simple and sound prescription for developing countries since it contributes to higher per capita income growth and potential structural change as well as assists in overcoming the predicament of economic slowdown [....]
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Does export orientation lead to higher productivity? Firm-level evidence from Bangladesh
- Dr Selim Raihan, Mir Tanzim Nur Angkur, Nafiz Ifteakhar
- May 1, 2016
For long, empirical studies on the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, used data at the country or industry level to test whether exports promote productivity growth or vice versa. However, a series of empirical studies since the early [....]
