Ahead of the Bangladesh China India Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor meeting in Dhaka in November, a review seminar on the BCIM Intergovernmental process explored key areas of study on Tuesday, 16 September 2014.

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and Bangladesh Institute of International Strategies and Studies (BIISS) are spearheading the national study on BCIM Economic Corridor (BCIM EC) to identify the potentials, opportunities and challenges of BCIM countries as well as to discover the possible fields of institutional mechanism and cooperation.

Four sessions at the seminar organised by the BIISS focused on trade, investment and connectivity; development, poverty alleviation and people-to-people contact; energy and sustainable development and institutional process.