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Women
Workers and Export
CPD has initiated a study on Recent Deceleration in
Export of Bangladesh and Women Workers: Impact and Coping
Strategies. Dr. Kaniz Siddique, Associate Professor,
North South University is conducting the study for CPD.
The draft report of the study is currently under review.
Collaborative
Research
under SANEI-III
CPD is currently implementing a research
programme titled The Trade Potentials of South Asian
Economies under New Global Trade Regimes: The Role of
Some Non-Price Factors under the auspices of the South
Asian Network of Economic Institute (SANEI). The study
team members are Professor Sugata Marjit of the Centre
for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, Professor Ajitava
Raychaudhury and Dr. Rajat Acharya of the Department
of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Dr. Debapriya
Bhattacharya, Professor Mustafizur Rahman and Dr. Manzur
Alam Tipu of CPD. A progress report of the study is
expected to be submitted at the Fourth Annual Conference
of the SANEI to be held in Dhaka during August 28-29,
2002.
Public
Policy Audit
CPD plans to carry out a study on Public
Policy Audit. A research proposal on Civil Society Audit
of Public Policy in Bangladesh has been designed for
the study.
Global Competitiveness
Report (GCR) 2002
The Global Competitiveness Report brought out by the
World Economic Forum (WEF), Geneva, in collaboration
with the Centre for International Development of Harvard
University, is recognised as an authoritative source
of international business competitiveness assessment.
The report provides a wide range of information on key
variables determining firm level competitive strength
in selected countries. In continuance of its GCR survey
for 2001, CPD conducted yet another survey in 2002 in
order to assess the state of competitiveness environment
in Bangladesh.
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