Shahidul Islam, Author at RAPID Bangladesh

Bangladesh IT/ITES Firms’ Export Readiness and UK Market Linkages

Estimating the Potential Tax Revenue from Direct and Indirect Sources in Bangladesh: Evidence from HIES 2022

Provide technical support for Leveraging Social Protection to End Child Marriage

Working Paper || This paper estimates the effective personal income tax schedule in Bangladesh using administrative tax return data.

RAPID Year in Review 2025

Working Paper || Over the past several decades, Bangladesh has recorded a sustained reduction in poverty, with the proportion of the population living below the national poverty line falling from more than half in the early 1990s to fewer than one in five in 2022, and extreme poverty declining from 34.3 per cent to just 5.6 per cent.

Latest Policy Brief || December 2025|| This policy brief reflects on the efficacy, relevance, and future prospects of targeted community-driven interventions through the lens of RELI’s experience.

Scoping Study on Identifying WASH Sector Investment in the Budget Accounting System of Bangladesh for Effective Tracking

RAPID Seminar on Socio-economic Priorities for the Next Government

Research Report: Bangladesh needs to generate at least two million jobs every year to accommodate new entrants to the labour market, but there are only about one million jobs being created.

সামষ্টিক অর্থনৈতিক স্থিতিশীলতা ও বাংলাদেশ: একজন অর্থনীতিবিদের দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি

Working Paper || This paper is to examine how Bangladesh’s graduation from the LDC group intersects with the broader reconfiguration of the global trade and development landscape.

Latest Working Paper || This paper estimates the effective personal income tax schedule in Bangladesh using administrative tax return data.

Policy Brief || November 2025|| Lightning has emerged as an acute, high-mortality climate threat in Bangladesh, causing over 300 annual fatalities since its formal designation as a natural disaster in 2016.

Policy Brief || Understanding Urban Poverty and Strengthening Social Protection for Urban Poor and Vulnerable Population

Final Policy Paper: Urban Poverty, Vulnerability, and Social Protection: An Assessment Using HIES 2022

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