25 August 2026
Bangladesh keeps training Organizations of Persons with Disabilities that vanish once donor funding ends. Uganda shows what durable institutional support could look like instead.
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Raisa Adiba
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Digitization, Economic Development, Ultra-Poor Graduation, Gender and Social Development
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Munshi Sulaiman, PhD; Narayan C. Das, PhD; Imran Matin, PhD and Raisa Adiba
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development, Macroeconomics, Ultra-Poor Graduation
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Narayan C. Das, PhD; James W. Khakshi; Farah Muneer; Md. Kamruzzaman; Md. Ashikur Rahman and Tahasin Tasnim Mohce
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development, Skills and Jobs
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Munshi Sulaiman, PhD and Sheikh Arman Tamim
Topic(s): Economic Development, Ultra-Poor Graduation, Gender and Social Development, BRAC Programs
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Munshi Sulaiman, PhD; Atiya Rahman, PhD and Sheikh Arman Tamim
Topic(s): Ultra-Poor Graduation, Gender and Social Development, Care Economy, BRAC Programs, Economic Development
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Atiya Rahman, PhD and Marjan Hossain
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development, Gender and Social Development, Care Economy
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Proloy Barua, PhD; Md. Karimul Islam; Md. Shakil Ahmed and Narayan C. Das, PhD
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Climate Change, Economic Development
Status: Ongoing
Topic(s): Economic Development, WEE-DiFine, Digitalization
Publisher: Economic Development and Cultural Change Journal
Date: 2026
Author(s): Arman, Mohammad Raied; Bhattacharjee, Anindita; Das, Narayan; Gomes, Mohima; and Mahmood, Sakib
Topic(s): Economic Development, Gender and Social Development
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2026
Author(s): Banks, Lena Morgon; Chen, Shanquan; Davey, Calum; Islam, Kazi Eliza; Kipchumba, Elijah; Kuper, Hannah; and Sulaiman, Munshi
Topic(s): Economic Development
Publisher: International Journal of Educational Development
Date: 2026
Author(s): Bhowmik, Prataoy Kabya; Sonia, Khadija Akter; Selby, Katharine; Barua, Proloy; and Howard, Justine
Topic(s): Economic Development, Skills and Jobs, Social Transformation
Publisher: Trials
Date: 2026
Author(s): Carew, Mark T.; Rahman, Semab; Banks, Lena Morgon; Gomes, Mohima; Kamruzzaman, Md.; Das, Narayan; and Kuper, Hannah
Topic(s): Economic Development, Ultra-Poor Graduation, BRAC Programs
Publisher: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 2026
Author(s): Carew, Mark T.; Das, Narayan; and Thompson, Stephen
Topic(s): Economic Development
Publisher: The World Bank Economic Review
Date: 2026
Author(s): Das, Narayan; Mahmood Sakib; Nisat, Rafia; and Rahman Atiya
Topic(s): Economic Development, Gender Justice
Publisher: Oxford Development Studies
Date: 2026
Author(s): Carew, Mark T.; Islam, Riana; Chowdhury, Soujannita; Shatil, Tanvir; Banks, Lena Morgan; Shakespeare, Tom; Kuper, Hannah; and Das, Narayan
Topic(s): Skills and Jobs, Social Transformation, Economic Development
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2026
Author(s): Bandiera, Oriana; Burgess, Robin ; Heil, Anton; and Sulaiman, Munshi
Topic(s): Economic Development
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2025
Author(s): Tamim, Sheikh Arman; Das, Narayan C.; Matin, Imran; and Sulaiman, Munshi
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development
Publisher: The Journal of Development Studies
Date: 2025
Author(s): Adiba, Afsana; Ahmed, Md. Shakil; Das, Narayan Chandra; Islam, Md. Karimul; Mozumder, Tanvir Ahmed; and Siddiquee, Muhammad Shahadat Hossain
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Economic Development
Bangladesh keeps training Organizations of Persons with Disabilities that vanish once donor funding ends. Uganda shows what durable institutional support could look like instead.
“You can’t protect what you can’t count.” A new socioeconomic profile of 300,000 Dhaka street vendors offers the evidence urban zoning policy urgently needs.
Mobile financial services are reshaping remittances and creating new possibilities for Bangladeshi women in overseas labor. Surveying 2,500 migrant workers, we find that women using mobile money gain autonomy and confidence, supporting continued migration. Yet adoption is unequal—71% of men use mobile money versus 45% of women. Digital inclusion appears key to empowering women and improving migration outcomes.
BIGD conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) on BRAC’s pilot initiative, titled Progressing the Retail Sector by Improving Decent Employment (PRIDE). Based on the study, an article titled “The Effects of Job Training on Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Bangladesh”—authored by Afsana Adiba, Md. Shakil Ahmed, Narayan Das, Md. Karimul Islam, Tanvir Ahmed Mozumder, and Muhammad Shahadat Hossain Siddiquee—was published in the Journal of Development Studies. This blog summarizes the key insights from the article.
This year BRAC Institute of Governance and Development launched back-to-back requests for proposals for the WEE-Connect and WEE-DiFine Initiatives, respectively. We received an impressive number of submissions to each! Peer reviews are the building blocks of the proposal review process and our reviewers have been nothing short of outstanding in lending their important insights and time to the success of our review process. As a gesture of heartfelt gratitude, here’s a list of the amazing peer reviewers who supported our 2024 review process!
Bangladesh’s financial inclusion strides, highlighted at the BIGD Conference, show a 21% rise in overall account ownership in the past decade. Despite progress, the gender gap widened to 20%, emphasizing the need for targeted efforts to empower women in the digital finance landscape.
Despite SHG ownership advantages, rural Chhattisgarh women still face barriers in actively engaging with digital financial services, as revealed by low DFS usage rates, prompting the need for further investigation.
Guest writer Kate Brockie reflects on Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize for her work on women’s labour force participation, and how Dr Goldin’s model relates to trends of women’s work in Bangladesh.
Caregiving is a crucial aspect of ensuring the wellbeing of persons with disabilities. However, due to several reasons including the absence of institutional arrangements and formal training on caregiving, the needs of persons with disabilities get little attention from policymakers and other stakeholders.
Do the people of Bangladesh truly believe they are free as citizens? Are they comfortable expressing their opinions on social media? A recent nationally representative survey offers valuable insights into the sentiments of Bangladeshi citizens regarding these questions.
9:30 am BRAC Centre
BIGD and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) convened academics, practitioners, persons with disabilities and their representative organizations, policymakers, and development partners to share new evidence on...
9:30 am BRAC Centre
The dissemination event brought together policymakers, researchers, SME owners, employers' associations, labour authorities, and development partners to discuss evidence-based strategies to improve women's economic participation. The event...
9:00 am Milonpur (9th Floor), BIGD
BIGD organised the Bangladesh Economic Research Network's (BERN) Annual Dhaka Winter Conference in Economics, in collaboration with the Association for Economic and Development Studies on Bangladesh (AEDSB). The day-long conference brought...
9:00 am BRAC Centre
The International Conference on Economic Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities was jointly organised by the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University, and the PENDA Programme at the International Centre for...
11:00 am Milonpur (9th Floor), BIGD
On June 28, BIGD hosted an interactive discussion on the National Budget for FY 2025-2026. Following a presentation by Dr. Towfiqul Islam Khan, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), speakers and participants...
9:00 am BIDS, E-17 Agargaon, Sher-e-Banglanagar, Dhaka 1207
The Annual Dhaka Winter Conference in Economics Research, hosted by Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in collaboration with Bangladesh Economic Research Network (BERN) and the Association for Economic and Development...
10:00 am Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Office of the Chief Economist for the South Asia Region of the World Bank—in collaboration with the Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice of the World Bank—and the BRAC Institute of Governance and...
4:30 pm Webinar
The Master of Arts in Governance and Development (MAGD) program at BIGD, Brac University, has been training promising policymakers in Bangladesh and beyond to become high-impact leaders since 2005. In 2022, MAGD was meticulously redesigned...
10:00 am BRAC Centre Inn Auditorium
BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) organized its international convening in 2023–"Making Digital Finance Work for Women." The two-day hybrid conference took place on 21-22 June 2023, where recent global research insights...
10:00 am BRAC Centre
Conference Day One: The conference’s opening day featured inspiring speakers who shared their expertise and insights. Dr Imran Matin, Executive Director, BIGD, emphasized the need for policies addressing inequality of opportunity and...
Publisher: VoxDev
Date: 8 September 2026
Topic(s): Economic Development, Social Transformation
Publisher: Prothom Alo
Date: 10 August 2026
Topic(s): Social Transformation, Economic Development, Humanitarian
Publisher: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
Date: 10 August 2026
Topic(s): Economic Development, Humanitarian, Social Transformation
Publisher: Bangla Stream
Date: 10 August 2026
Topic(s): Economic Development, Humanitarian, Social Transformation
Publisher: Prothom Alo
Date: 10 August 2026
Topic(s): Economic Development, Humanitarian, Social Transformation
Publisher: New Age
Date: 10 August 2026
Topic(s): Economic Development, Humanitarian, Social Transformation
Publisher: UNB
Date: 10 August 2026
Topic(s): Humanitarian, Social Transformation, Economic Development
Publisher: New Nation
Date: 10 August 2026
Topic(s): Economic Development, Humanitarian, Social Transformation
Publisher: The Financial Express
Date: 10 August 2026
Topic(s): Economic Development, Humanitarian, Social Transformation
Publisher: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
Date: 10 August 2026
Topic(s): Economic Development, Humanitarian, Social Transformation
