The Agricultural Value Chain Survey
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.
Value of Statistical Lives (VSL) survey and Chicken Game Experiment for ‘Empirical Study on Risk and Poverty in Bangladesh’
Team leader: Mohammed Helal Uddin Sponsored by: JICA
Estimating & Mapping of Poverty and Undernutrition in Bangladesh
Lead Researcher: Sajjad Zohir Sponsored by: The World Food Programme (WFP) The report builds perception based on the responses of selected group of locals from the selected districts. The key objective of the study is to measure relative prevalence of poverty at upazila level in multiple districts of Bangladesh.
Comprehensive Analysis of Food Security and Nutrition Projects in Bangladesh
Lead Researcher: Sajjad Zohir Sponsored by: World Food Program (WFP) The report intends to find suitable measure for multi-sector food and nutrition programmes so that these programmes can be assessed and monitored.
Marketing Institutions and Food Price Volatility in Developing Countries: Assessment of Competition in Sugar Market Bangladesh
Lead Researcher: Mohammed Helal Uddin Sponsored by: London School of Economics and Political Science
Macro Modeling to assess impacts of oil price
Lead Researcher: A.K. Enamul Haque Sponsored by: REP, UNDP, Bangkok The study was conducted with a view to provide supports to a UNDP (Bangkok) initiative, a team of ERG member and associates worked on a macro model. Impact of World Oil Price Rise on the Economy of Bangladesh. Publication Impact of World Oil Price Rise on the Economy of Bangladesh Author: A.K. Enamul Haque
Analytical Study on Companies Act Reform and Informal Businesses in Bangladesh
Research Team: Sajjad Zohir, Adeeb Choudhury Sponsored By: The Bangladesh Investment Climate Fund (BICF) The specific aim of the exercise is to understand how some of the provisions in the current Act and their enforcement deter ‘informal’ enterprises/businesses from registering; and what the perceptions of entrepreneurs are about the significance of the Act in expanding the size of the net of registered enterprises. Beside the thought process to recast the issues within...
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An ex ante Assessment of Property/Wealth Tax in Bangladesh
Research Team: Sajjad Zohir, Motiar Rahman, Mohammad Arefin Kamal, Anik Ashraf, Nabil Ahmed Sponsored By: London School of Economics and Political Science/IGC-Bangladesh Growth Research Program (BGRP) It reviewed practices in several countries and summarized the state of information available to authorities for assessing property/wealth tax. Furthermore, the study evaluated the likely impact of imposing property tax in Bangladesh. Beside analytical review, the study included a survey of properties in Dhaka covering 2000...
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A Decision Support Tool for Government Engagements in Market for Essentials – the case of Food grains in Bangladesh
Lead Researcher: Sajjad Zohir Sponsored By: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) The report conceptualizes a framework for the government to have guidance on markets for essentials (cereals, edible oil, sugar and rice) where the government is obligated to make sure that that the citizens have sufficient access to those essentials with price stability. The study formulates a decision support tool that will provide guidance to take effective decisions based on...
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Review of Decision Process with Government as Provider of Essentials: The case of government engagement in markets of cereals in Bangladesh
Lead Researcher: Sajjad Zohir Sponsored By: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) The primary objective of this study is to develop a framework to support decision making in grain market policies in Bangladesh in coordination with the objectives of government interventions.