Research Division

CPD's research activity is mandated to service two complementary demands: to sustain CPD's dialogue process with research based informed inputs and to undertake research in key areas and on critical issues which are prioritized through the dialogue process. CPD's Research Division is entrusted to implement its various research programmes and works in close collaboration with the Dialogue and Communication Division of CPD.

Research at CPD also focuses on issues of immediate policy concern which have remained un-addressed in the research agendas of other more established institutions. However, the overall goal of CPD is not to undertake research as an end in itself but as a policy tool and as an input to the ongoing public discourse which concerns the interest of stakeholders. As such, the Division's research agendas are designed to influence the national policies with a view to contribute towards improving the quality of governance in Bangladesh.

Research completed till now at the CPD includes initiation and publication of the Independent Review of Bangladesh's Development, an assessment of the environmental impact of the structural adjustment programmes in Bangladesh, governance of Asia: lessons for Bangladesh, issues of women's employment in Bangladesh, privatisation in Bangladesh, public perception survey on national economic policy, Bangladesh-India economic and trade cooperation, growth zones fzones for economic cooperation in the eastern parts of South Asia, and study on textile and clothing industry in Bangladesh.
 

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