Lead Researcher: Mohammed Helal Uddin Sponsored by: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) The main objective of the study is to investigate the sources of rural poverty reduction over the years between 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2012. To investigate the sources of growth of income, ranking them in the order of importance to the growth of income of each quintile.
This training is exclusively for the GED and other Planning Commission staffs nominated by the GED, 9-11 May 2015.
Research Team: Sajjad Zohir, Umama Rahman Sponsored by: WaterAid Bangladesh This section of the study on WASH reviews selected parts of the burgeoning literature with a view to contextualize the focus of the ERG study and the approach it adopts. Two key questions are at the center of the review, (i) what does political economy deal with? And, (ii) what are the various approaches in political economic analysis? The concluding segment in...
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Revolutions of the bright points that first defined him to me. And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish. five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. then, when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. i’m neglecting my other guests. enjoy yourself, you’ll...
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Economic Research Group (ERG) in partnership with AEDSB Venue: Economic Research Group (ERG) Conference Room Date: December 28, 2014 Economic Research Group (ERG) organized a day long conference on “Economic Research”, in collaboration with the Association of Economic and Development Studies for Bangladesh (AEDSB). It was the 4th Winter Annual Conference of ERG, and the event was held at ERG conference room on 28th December, 2014. The annual event served...
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Exclusion and Initiatives to ‘Include’: Revisiting Basic Economics to Guide Development Practice Chapter 3 Sajjad Zohir Literature on the ‘economics of exclusion’ typically addresses competition and the anti-trust laws of developed economies, not the ‘exclusion’ that development practitioners are concerned about. When economists do engage in the discourse on exclusion in development, they typically deal with poverty and deprivation without always applying the basic analytical tools available in economics (Sen...
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Research Team: A.K. Enamul Haque, Mr. Sakib Mahmud,Ms. Sonia Aftab, Mr. Wahid Abdallah, Mr. Luke Brander, Priya Syamsunder, Roy Brouwe Sponsored By: Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam This report intends to set out a framework for government projects which are undertaken to protect land from floodplain through construction of dykes or embankments. Construction of these have caused multiple repercussions which are mostly long term impacts making it difficult to make...
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Lead Researcher: Mohammed Helal Uddin Sponsored By: International Labour Organization (ILO) This study conducts a comprehensive action-oriented survey of the shrimp production supply chain. This includes a comprehensive enterprise mapping and analysis of labor practices in the shrimp supply chain. OSH risks are also assessed in this study.
Lead Researcher: Mohammed Helal Uddin Sponsored by: The World Bank The study will collect micro data on agriculture value chains that will allow in depth analyses of constraints and bottlenecks faced by different agents at different layers of the marketing chain.
Final Report Author: Mohammed Helal Uddin Published by: Economic Research Group (ERG) This study conducts a comprehensive action-oriented survey of the shrimp production supply chain. This includes a comprehensive enterprise mapping and analysis of labor practices in the shrimp supply chain. OSH risks are also assessed in this study.