Working Papers

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.

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.

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.

Working Paper: RAPID research shows that expansionary monetary policy, designed to stimulate investment, has resulted in higher inflation and depreciation pressures.

Working Paper: The political economy of direct taxation in Bangladesh

The structure of NBR tax revenue shows that Bangladesh is highly dependent on indirect taxation for revenue mobilization.

Is the Global Compact on Refugees Adequate to Address the Complexities of the Rohingya Response in Bangladesh?

Today, Bangladesh hosts around 850,000 Rohingya refugees.
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