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Advanced Lectures on Bangladesh Economy

4-7 September, 2006

The CPD has launched the Advanced Lectures on Bangladesh Economy for students with outstanding academic performance from different universities of the country. The Second Series of the Advanced Lectures, held during 4-7 September 2006, was participated by 27 students from different private and public universities of Bangladesh who were enrolled on a competitive basis. CPD initiated the programme in 2005 with an objective to orient the economics graduates to the dynamics of Bangladesh economy in response to macroeconomics, regionalization and globalization. However, this programme is particularly designed for students who intend to pursue a research and academic career.

On the first day, Anisatul Fatema Yousuf, Additional Director and Head (Dialogue and Communication), CPD welcomed the participants in CPD’s Advanced Lectures second series. Khondaker Golam Moazzem, Senior Research Fellow, CPD briefed the participants about CPD and its activities. On the first day, the first lecture on Macroeconomic Performance of Bangladesh Economy was delivered by CPD Executive Director Debapriya Bhattacharya. Mustafizur Rahman, Research Director, CPD delivered the second lecture on Regional Integration and Its Impact on Bangladesh Economy; the third and fourth lecture was given by Fahmida Khatun and Uttam Kumar Deb, both Senior Research Fellows at CPD on Challenges and Opportunities of Globalisation and Bangladesh Economy and Globalisation and WTO respectively. Each of the presentations was followed by questions and answers session where participants shared their views on various issues discussed and put questions to the lecturers. On the final day the participants presented their given assignments followed by a written learning assessment. The programme ended with handing over the Certificates of Achievement to the participants by Mr M Syeduzzaman, Member, CPD Board of Trustees.