Publications
CPD’s current publication list contains more than 500 titles including Books, Monographs, Working Papers, Dialogue Briefs and Policy Briefs. If you want to collect the hard copies of the publications, please contact with CPD. You can find the soft copies of the book in the CPD website.
December 9, 2019
This policy note draws on an ongoing research study titled Introducing a Universal Pension Scheme (UPS) in Bangladesh. Read more
October 29, 2019
The announcement of new minimum wages for the export-oriented readymade garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh in August 2018 had exposed a number of non-compliances. Read more
October 21, 2019
Financial sector of Bangladesh is a bank-based system that has been facing a number of challenges alongside operational expansions. Read more
October 10, 2019
Revenue mobilisation in Bangladesh has not been commensurate with its rapid economic growth. It is often regarded that, income tax evasion is high in Bangladesh, which undermines income equality and development finance. Read more
August 22, 2019
Literature review testifies to a distinct shift in recent years in the discourse concerning development effectiveness. Factors contributing to the shift include the change in focus from aid to development cooperation, the involvement of new development actors and the new roles performed by traditional development actors, the diversity of financing instruments and modalities, and—most importantly—the new demands originating from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Read more
July 17, 2019
Bangladesh’s upcoming graduation from least developed country (LDC) status, which may potentially take place in 2024, has generated renewed interest in the country’s ability to mobilise finance for development from external and domestic sources. Over the years, foreign aid received by Bangladesh has become more project specific, multilateral and loan-dominated. Read more
July 17, 2019
CPD’s Executive Director Dr Fahmida Khatun and Research Associate Mr Syed Yusuf Saadat recently published the journal article, “Governance and Competitiveness: An Econometric Analysis of the Banking Sector of Bangladesh”, in the Journal of Statistical and Econometric Methods, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2019, 51-77. Read more
July 15, 2019
This book offers a set of summary reports that evaluate the development progress of Bangladesh, with special reference to the role of non-state actors, in the six Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) identified to be reviewed by the UN’s High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2019. Read more
July 3, 2019
CPD prepared Bangladesh’s macroeconomic analysis for the first quarter of 2019 keeping in view the election of the new government in the 11th National Parliamentary Election. Read more
July 3, 2019
The present paper examines five areas of interests of graduating LDCs such as Bangladesh in an evolving WTO. Newly emerging concerns which will have to inform the stance of the graduating LDCs; priorities for the graduating LDCs in the context of the Doha Round agenda (DDA) of the WTO; a possible stance of LDCs and graduating LDCs taking account of the new issues that emerged from the WTO MC11 in Buenos Aires Read more
July 1, 2019
Dr Fahmida Khatun, Executive Director, CPD, recently published an Issue Brief with these findings. The brief titled, “BIMSTEC countries and climate change: Imperatives for action” has been published by Observer Research Foundation (ORF). Read more
May 10, 2019
This paper examines four issues concerning the labour market scenario in Bangladesh, from the particular perspective of female labour force participation: (a) trends and characteristics of female participation; (b) determinants of female labour force participation; (c) male–female wage gap and wage discrimination; and (d) returns to schooling for women. Read more