| Title of the Project | Description | Categories |
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| Child Labour and Schooling in Bangladesh: Insights from data and evidence | Child Labour and Schooling in Bangladesh Insights from data and evidence Sajjad Zohir, Susmita Dutta, Siddiqur Rahman and Wasama Ahmed Khan In the past two decades, Bangladesh experienced a substantial reduction in the prevalence of child labour, associated with improvements in school enrolment and completion. Despite progress, child labour persists in the country, also driven by household earning losses and school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report addresses … | Research Completed |
| Sustainability and Financing of Water Management: Operations & Maintenance in Coastal Polders | Sajjad Zohir In association with M.A. Sattar Mandal, Nityananda Chakravorty and Mutasim Billah Mubde Abstract: Historically, large investments, once resources are mobilized, is less of a concern than the difficulties faced in ensuring operation and maintenance (O&M). The adverse implications of poor O&M, of coastal embankments and the smaller infrastructures inside the catchment areas, are very significant. This paper focuses on coastal Polders and identifies the prerequisites for sustainable … | Research Completed |
| A Framework to Assess Digital Transformation in a Technologically Less-Developed Country: Challenges and Opportunities in Bangladesh | Sajjad Zohir | Abstract The journey towards a ‘digital world’, is often perceived in terms of three sequentially linked ‘phases’, digitization, digitalization and digital transformation. This paper considers digitalization as the process that transforms an analog world into a digital world. Subsequently, attempt is made to understand it’s dynamics in a technologically less developed country (TLDC). Two important departures from the dominant stands in the literature were made in … | Publication, Research Completed |
| Training Need Assessment for the Digital Entrepreneurship and Innovation Eco-System Development (DEIEDP) | Economic Research Group has recently completed a study titled “Human Resource Development for Scaling up IT/ITES Firms, and Leveraging Digital Entrepreneurship and Innovations-An Assessment of Training Needs“. The overarching objective of this study was to recommend ways to scale up IT/ITES firms and leverage digital entrepreneurship and startups through skill development. To address this issue, the study reviewed the growth models of IT/ITES firms to highlight the role of skill … | Publication, Research Completed |
| Renegotiations at Firm levels Comprehending effects of Covid-19 | Research Brief Economic Research Group (ERG) June, 2020 The SARS-CoV2 pandemic, leading to deadly Covid-19, brought disruptions in inter-country as well as within-country flow of goods and services. ERG carried out a phone-based survey of 102 firms engaged in manufacturing and service sectors to assess, (i) extent of initial ‘shock’ faced, and (ii) coping strategies that involve renegotiations in work practices, rental contract of premises and in contracts with employees. … | Covid19, Research Completed |
| Socially Responsible Financing: Guidance Note Drafting Initiative | A collaborative research by Bangladesh Bank and Economic Research Group Research Team: Dr. Sajjad Zohir and Anika Anjum, ERG Md. Akhtaruzzan, Ph.D. Executive Director (Research) and Md. Abdul Wahab, DGM, (Research), Bangladesh Bank Sponsored by: Bangladesh Bank The objective of the study is to prepare a background (draft) paper upon reviewing literature and consulting with relevant stakeholders. The study is for the Core Group in Bangladesh Bank assigned to prepare an Operational … | Research Completed |
| IT Enabled Service in Bangladesh- Implications for Skill Demand and Labour Market. | Research Team: Dr. Sajjad Zohir, Mushtaq Khalique, K M Masnun Hosain, Rafe Rais Hannan & Mutasim Billah Mubde The report is an exercise into understanding the changing IT environment with a specific focus on IT enabled services in Bangladesh. The first part of the report attempts to establish a framework for linking the labor market changes due to evolution in IT to subsequent skill demand. The framework will form the … | Research Completed |
| Baseline Surveys to Track and Document Government Service Delivery Mechanism for Bangladesh Investment Climate Fund (BICF) Program Phase II | Research Team: Dr. Sajjad Zohir, Dr. Asad Karim Khan Priyo, Azraf Ahmed, Shihab Ahmed, Ahmed Adib, Nahaz Hashem, K M Masnun Hosain Sponsored by: World Bank Group The objective of the Baseline Surveys to Track and Document Government Service Delivery Mechanism for Investment Climate Fund (BICF) Program Phase II project is to conduct baseline surveys to track the government-to-business service delivery mechanisms of a set of government agencies related to the facilitation of investment … | Research Completed |
| Impact of arsenic contamination in groundwater on poverty and choice of mitigation technology for rural communities in Bangladesh | Research Team: A K Enamul Haque, M. Zakir Hossain Khan and Joyashree Roy Sponsored by: South Asian Network of Economic Research Institutes (SANEI) The study focuses on arsenic contaminated water in rural areas to understand three main objective. (i) to understand how household utilizes its resources and the condition of poverty when arsenic related illness occurs. (ii) the compensating measures taken by households and community. (iii) analyze precautionary and preventionary measures taken … | Research Completed |
| Economics of Rice Residue Burning in the South-West region of Bangladesh | Lead Researcher: Mohammed Ziaul Haider Sponsored by: South Asian Network For Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) The study advocates the short term benefit of rise residue burning for the farmers, despire the fact that it produces carbon emission and burning rise fields adds little or no value to social welfare. This study develops a strategy to manage crop residue for the farmers because using rise residue in household activities like cooking adds … | Research Completed |
| Food Prices, Middlemen and Marketing Institutions: Evidence from Bangladesh Survey of Value Chain of Edible Oil markets in Bangladesh | Team leader: Mohammed Helal Uddin Sponsored by: The World Bank Group | Research Completed |
| Strengthening analysis and presentation of social security-related data in 2016 Household Income and Expenditure Survey of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics | Lead Researcher: Dr. Sajjad Zohir Sponsored by: The United Nations World Food Programme The study is meant to engage services of the ERG research team to: a) Strengthening the agency’s role as the primary source of information on social security by supporting BBS expand the routine social security-related analysis presented in its HIES report. b) Contribute towards capacity-building within BBS for undertaking SSP analyses. c) Develop a supplementary technical report for the SS … | Research Completed |
| Innovative MSE Financing Products and Delivery Channels in Bangladesh: Opportunities and Challenges | Research Team: Dr. Sajjad Zohir, Dr. Shafiun N Shimul, Dr. Asad Karim Khan Priyo, Tariq Ali, K M Masnun Hossain. Sponsored by: Business Finance for the Poor in Bangladesh (BFP-B) Project. The overall objective of this study is to understand the regulatory barriers in product innovation and of innovative products; and the following reformulation of the study objectives is proposed: a) To identify the regulatory barriers faced by the financial service providers … | Research Completed |
| Review of SME Credit-related Policies of Bangladesh Bank – Areas of further improvement with a focus on Micro and Small Enterprise (mSE) Finance | Research Team: Sajjad Zohir, K. A. M. Majedur Rahman, Md. Iqbal Hossain, Anika Anjum Sponsored By: Nathan Associates (London) Limited The overall objective of the study was to understand the stakeholder perspectives and experience of using the mE and SME policy of BB. The main objectives were: Recommending suitable unified definition of mSMEs that will contribute to the current draft SME Strategy document of the Ministry of Industry; Appraising the feasibility of … | Research Completed |
| The Decomposition of Rural Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh: The Recent Trend | 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. | Research Completed |
| A Political Economy Study of the WASH Sector in Bangladesh | 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 … | Research Completed |
| Exclusion and Initiatives to ‘Include’: Revisiting Basic Economics to Guide Development Practice | 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 … | Research Completed |
| Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM) | 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 … | Research Completed |
| Improving Labour Law Compliance and Building Sound Labour Practices in the Export Oriented Shrimp Sector in Bangladesh | 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. | Research Completed |
| 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. | Research Completed |
| 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 | Research Completed |
| 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. | Research Completed |
| 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. | Research Completed |
| 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 | Research Completed |
| 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 | Research Completed |
| 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 … | Research Completed |
| 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 … | Research Completed |
| 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 … | Research Completed |
| 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. | Research Completed |
| Does Extra Tuition Matter in Reducing Primary School Dropout in Bangladesh? | Research Team: Sajjad Zohir, Ummul Hasanath Ruthbah, Atonu Rabbani, Muhammad G. Sarwar, Salim Hossain The study considers whether tuition services help reduce dropout rates? Based on the findings it manages to reduce the rate however depends on which grade the student is studying. | Research Completed |
| Supporting Policy Research to Inform Agricultural Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia | Team leader: A.K. Enamul Haque Sponsored by: Global Development Network (GDN) | Research Completed |
| Does the Extra Hour Tuition Pay Off? An Evaluation of an NGO Education Support Program | Team leader: Atonu Rabbani Sponsored by: London School of Economics and Political Science | Research Completed |
| Strengthening Social Safety Nets for Mitigating Adverse Impacts of Food Crisis in Bangladesh | Research Team: Sajjad Zohir, Biva Arani Mallik, Sara Zabeen,Galib Ahsan Sponsored by: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) The objective of the study was to describe the effects of the food price surge of 2007-08 on the poor and vulnerable in rural and urban Bangladesh, to assess the responses to the effects, and, suggest ways of strengthening social protection/safety net system in Bangladesh for mitigating the risks of food crisis and improving … | Research Completed |
| An Assessment of Poverty, Inequality and Employment Related MDGs in Bangladesh | Research Team: Sponsored By: Atonu Rabbani, Lamya Islam This report sets out to assess the experience of Bangladesh with MDGs, More specifically we will focus on nature, status and trends in poverty and employment of the country. Bangladesh is fortunate enough to be part of the growth experience that has typified many countries of the region. It has experienced a robust growth (albeit lower than her other Asian counterparts) in the … | Research Completed, Uncategorized |
| Eradication of Extreme Poverty in Bangladesh | Research Team: Atonu Rabbani, Lamia Islam Sponsored by: UNDP Bangladesh This report sets out to assess the experience of Bangladesh with MDGs, More specifically we will focus on nature, status and trends in poverty and employment of the country. Bangladesh is fortunate enough to be part of the growth experience that has typified many countries of the region. It has experienced a robust growth (albeit lower than her other Asian counterparts) in … | Research Completed |
| Economic Valuation of the Storm Protection Values of Mangroves forests under the coastal ecosystems of the Sundarbans | Research Team: Sakib Mahmud. Advisors: Edward Barbier and A.K. Enamul Haque Sponsored by: South Asian Network For Development and Environmental Economics | Research Completed |
| Economic Cost of Arsenic Disaster: Policy Choices for Bangladesh | Research Team: M. Zakir Hossain Khan, A K Enamul Haque Sponsored By: South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economists (SANDEE) The study looks in to the severity of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh and measures health impact and cost associated with arsenic contamination. Results shows that individuals suffering from arsenic spent up to 0.6% of their annual income. The study also finds that cumulative effects of disease like Melanosis and Keratosis … | Research Completed |
| Identifying Activities for Pro-Poor Employment and Income in Coastal South | Research Team: Sajjad Zohir, Sara Zabeen, Hosneara Munni, Sujan Ghosh Sponsored by: Save the Children UK, Dhaka The study reviewed existing literature on the selection criteria and development interventions for the extreme poor in the country in general and specifically in the south-western districts. The study identified a list of goods and/or services which hold potential for engaging workforce from extreme poor households. Along with available secondary information, several groups of stakeholders … | Research Completed |
| Bangladesh Growth Research Programme (IGC-BCP) | Team leader: Sultan Hafeez Rahman Sponsored by: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | Research Completed |
| Impact of Price Increase on Poor Households and Children Wellbeing | Team leader: Mohammed Helal Uddin Sponsored by: Save the Children UK, Dhaka The study intends to address the situation of unstable food prices including the time of 2007-2008 financial crisis which has affected the people of Bangladesh specifically worsens the condition of the poor. | Research Completed |
| Food Security for the Poor: Exploring Policy Options under Alternative Price Regimes | Research Team: Rushad Faridi, Syed Naimul Wadood and Kazi Sabbir Ahmed Sponsored by: National Food Policy Strengthening Programme (NFPCSP) The study compares several policy options on food security based on different income groups. | Research Completed |
| Number of MFI clients moving out of $1.25 a day threshold | Team Leader: Sajjad Zohir Sponsored by: Microcredit Summit Campaign The study the number of household micro-credit borrowers who crossed the thresholds of internationally comparable poverty line between 1990-2008. | Research Completed |
| Identifying the Casual Links between Local Political Leadership & Sanitation | Team leader: Atonu Rabbani Sponsored by: South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) | Research Completed |
| Measuring movement out of poverty | Lead researcher: Sajjad Zohir Sponsored by: Microcredit Summit Campaign | Research Completed |
| Integrated Phase Classification of Food Security (IPC) Project | Lead Researcher: Sajjad Zohir Sponsored by: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Research Completed |
| Small Grants and Academic Partnership Program of IFC-BICF | Research Team: A.K. Enamul Haque, Wahiduddin Mahmud, Sajjad Zohir, Professor Salim Rashid, Professor Anis Chowdhury, Fahad Khalil Sponsored by: BMB Mott MacDonald, Netherlands Investment Climate in South West Region of Bangladesh: A study of the Manufacturing Sector Investment Climate in Bangladesh: Enhanced Role of the Capital Market Lack of Utilization of Local Funds and Productive Investment Climate in Sylhet Region: A Perception Analysis Impact of International Arbitration Proceeding: Governmental Approach and Investment … | Research Completed |
| The Relative Efficiency of Water Use in Bangladesh | Research Team: Nasima T. Chowdhury Sponsored by: South Asian Network For Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) | Research Completed |
| Implementation of Policies for Reducing Chronic Poverty (PRS) Country Study: Bangladesh | Research Team: Sajjad Zohir, Abantee Harun, Naser Farid & Iftekharul Huq Sponsored by: Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London The background paper prepared for Second Chronic Poverty Report 2007/08, CPRC, has been submitted to the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London. The paper looks into the problems of implementing pro-poor (particularly, chronic poor) policies in Bangladesh. | Research Completed |
| Assessing Macro Impacts of Community-Based Fishery Management (CBFM) in the Inland Open Water Fishery Sector An Analytical Exercise with Projections | Research Team: Sajjad Zohir, Salma Begum, Kazi Sabbir Ahmed. Sponsored by: WorldFish Center The study estimates a reduced form supply function (of inland capture fishery) using CBFM monitoring data; and uses regression estimates and parameter estimates from secondary sources to generate a ten-year (2006-2015) projection of capture fish production. Various alternative scenarios are defined in terms of changes in relative price of fish to non-fish food items, gear usage, size of water … | Research Completed |
| Monitoring Support to Poverty Reduction Strategy in Bangladesh by the BWIS | Research Team: Wahiduddin Mahmud Sponsored by: Commonwealth Secretariat The Study looked into supports provided by the IMF, the World Bank and other development partners to Bangladesh’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. | Research Completed |
| Improving educational outcomes for female and disadvantage primary school students (Bangladesh) | Lead Researcher: Asadul Islam Sponsored by: Commonwealth of Australia represented by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) | Research Completed |
| The Impact of Price Hike on Child Labor Participation in Bangladesh | Lead Researcher: Mohammed Helal Uddin Sponsored by: Save the Children UK | Research Completed |
| Assessing Economy-wide Impacts of Micro Interventions in the Inland Fishery Sector: a case study of Community based Fishery Management (CBFM) in Bangladesh | Research Team: Asadul Islam, Salma Begum, Mashfiqur Rahman Khan Sponsored by: WorldFish Center | Research Completed |
| Programs and Approaches for the Excluded | Research Team: Sajjad Zohir, Mehnaz Rabbani, Biva Arani Mallik, Iftekharul Huq, Raisa Afsana Sponsored By: Brac’s Research & Evaluation Division The study had focused on four different kinds of exclusion that surface in economic exchanges mediated through markets, one of which was: Exclusion of potential consumers from the (output) market of goods and services, which has received great deal of attention in the context of safety net programs in developing countries. The … | Research Completed |