Publications Archives - RAPID Bangladesh

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Final Report: Out-of-pocket expenditure on medicines accounts for 73 per cent of total health spending in Bangladesh, significantly higher than the global average of 17 per cent.

Final Report: The UK recently introduced its preferential trading schemes for developing countries, marking its departure from the European Union (EU)’s Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).

Policy Brief || October 2025|| This policy brief examines the impact of the newly imposed U.S. reciprocal tariffs on Bangladesh.

Policy Brief || September 2025|| Strategic Approaches to FTAs in the Context of LDC Graduation: Policy Imperatives for Bangladesh

FTAs are necessary to remain competitive in post-LDC graduation, but the central question remains whether Bangladesh is prepared for this and what could be the strategic approach for prioritizing FTAs.

Policy Brief || August 2025|| Bangladesh’s domestic debt now makes up 57% of its total public debt, with banks providing 58%.

Policy Brief || July 2025|| This study examines the trade and freight cost implications of recent land port restrictions imposed by Bangladesh and India on selected bilateral trade flows.

Working Paper || 2025|| Econometric results show that informal networks, prior awareness, and unofficial payments play a significant role in determining access to benefits—lowering exclusion but increasing the risk of inclusion errors.

Policy Brief || June 2025|| This study assesses the shortcomings of Bangladesh’s support mechanisms across the entire migration journey and highlights successful practices from peer countries.

Policy Brief || May 2025 || Between 2010 and 2022, urban poverty and vulnerability rates declined by 10 percentage points while rural rates dropped by 18.6 percentage points.

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