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.

January 11, 2016
A large part of economic activities undertaken by women in Bangladesh including household chores, care and agriculture work remain unaccounted for. Read more

January 10, 2016
The adoption of the ambitious post-2015 agenda centering on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations (UN) in New York in September marks an opportune moment to suggest development policy solutions for the LDCs. Read more

December 25, 2015
The paper critically examines the outcomes of the Bali Ministerial of the WTO, held in December 2013, from the lens of issues of interest and concern to the least developed countries (LDCs). Read more

December 9, 2015
This compendium focuses on some of the most pressing issues that are critically important to advancing the cause of South Asian economic integration. Read more

November 9, 2015
This monograph explores the challenges faced in implementing the Bali package by LDCs in WTO. It provides an analysis of the key decisions, and identifies opportunities and, in certain cases, outlines strategies for assessing the impacts. Read more

September 23, 2015
The study examines the state of data in relation to each of the aforesaid goal areas from the perspective of a number of important indicators: accuracy and reliability, timeliness and punctuality, accessibility and clarity, and coherence and comparability. Read more
September 13, 2015
Whilst the SAARC countries have been able to make notable progress in terms of bringing down tariff barriers in intra-regional trade, non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and related concerns continue to pose formidable challenges from the point of view of deepening trade and investment cooperation within the region. Read more
September 1, 2015
In this paper we present a discussion on current energy and power situation of the country, and examine the causal relationship between FDI in the energy and power sector, and economic growth in Bangladesh for the period 1972–2010. Read more
August 5, 2015
This article is inspired by a recent debate in Bangladesh about the representativecredentials of members of parliament (MPs) who have started to assert a pre-eminent and exclusive role for themselves as people's elected representatives. Read more

August 5, 2015
The study investigates the paradoxical role of political parties in the political development of Bangladesh, their positive contributions in mobilizing masses behind the nationalist and the pro-democracy movements Read more