Bangladesh
IGC Bangladesh partners with policymakers to focus on infrastructural transformation, firm capabilities and inclusive jobs, state effectiveness and resource mobilisation. Previously, our research on seasonal migration, sanitation, and ultra-poor programmes has informed local and national policy at scale.
Featured content
Resilient and resurgent Bangladesh: Sustaining economic growth in a changing climate
Synthesis paper
Resilient and resurgent Bangladesh: Sustaining economic growth in a changing climate
Past Event
International buyers, suppliers’ performance, and workers’ outcomes in the garment sector in Bangladesh: Evidence from the pandemic
Policy brief
Designing a waste management strategy for tropical developing countries
Policy brief
Gender equality
Paternalistic gender discrimination: Evidence from labour markets in Bangladesh
Blog
The economic effects of COVID-19 on garment factories in Bangladesh
Policy brief
Lessons learned from a scale-up of a seasonal migration RCT in Bangladesh
Policy brief
Climate priorities in developing countries
Health and environmental impacts of brick kilns in Bangladesh
Blog
Taxing effectively
Why does Bangladesh tax so little?
Blog
The real effects of electronic wage payments: An experiment with salaried factory workers in Bangladesh
Project
About
Bangladesh’s impressive growth story of consistent high growth and falling poverty levels is facing new challenges in the form of persistent pressure on balance of payments and underutilised labour force coupled with increasing pollution and gridlocked cities. Since 2009, the IGC Bangladesh Country Programme has partnered with the government, research institutions, and the private sector to support Bangladesh in facing obstacles to growth. These projects have included research on worker well-being in the face of shocks, government revenue mobilization by focusing on direct taxes, the impact of new traffic infrastructure on mobility, and the effects of large-scale rural-urban temporary migration. IGC Bangladesh aims to continue working on issues like increasing tax revenue, abating pollution, and ensuring safe and efficient e-mobility.
IGC Bangladesh is currently hosted at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD). The Country Programme has collaborated with key policymakers and senior government officials in the National Board of Revenue (NBR), Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral Resources (MoPEMR) and Department of Environment (DoE) and has established partnerships with universities, and research institutions such as CPD, PRI, and RAPID.
Contact
BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)
SK Center (3rd - 7th & 9th Floor), GP, JA-4, TB Gate, Bir Uttam AK Khandakar Road, Dhaka 1212.
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @IGC_Bangladesh
Our team
Aminul Aman
Research and Policy Officer, Bangladesh, International Growth Centre
Laura Boudreau
Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Professor of Economics, Yale University
Masrur Reaz
Policy Advisor, International Growth Centre
