Governance and policy reforms have been major areas of research as well as dialogue activities at the CPD. CPD views the related issues to be of critical importance from the perspective of strengthening democracy as well as equitable development in the context of Bangladesh. Over the years, CPD has conducted a number of in-depth researches on such issues as macroeconomic policy reforms, quality of governance in various sectors, reforms of the tax administration, industrial policy reforms and electoral reforms. Mention may be made here of some of CPD’s recent research works focusing on policy reforms related to development of agriculture and distribution of agricultural inputs, jute sector restructuring, addressing regional disparity and quality of macroeconomic governance in view of the ongoing global economic crisis. Indeed, CPD's IRBD programme is designed in a manner that state of economic governance and major policy reforms are monitored and examined on an ongoing basis with a view to providing analytical inputs to the policy makers in their pursuit towards ensuring good governance and implementing major policy reforms.