BDPolicyLab

Bangladesh’s next decade, analyzed before it happens.

বাংলাদেশের আগামী দশক, ঘটার আগেই বিশ্লেষণ।

Flagship Research

The State of Bangladesh Trade: Structure, Risk, and Strategy

Export concentration in RMG, import structure, trade balance dynamics, LDC graduation impact, and diversification pathways.

Flagship 2026-06-12 Read →
Daily Policy Advisor · 2026-09-13
NBR VAT Remittance Policy: Reconciling Treasury Cash Flow and Business Compliance
NBR Reconsideration of the Reformed VAT Filing Framework
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This month · এ মাসে

Featured story & monthly column

The most recent long-form narrative, and a monthly Policy Analysis op-ed in English and Bangla on whatever's most consequential right now.

Bangladesh's Reform Stack, 2026
Stuck at Eight Percent
Bangladesh has not raised its tax-to-GDP ratio in three decades. Six months from LDC graduation, that floor has become the ceiling.
2026-05-16
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Monthly Analysis · 2026-05-27
The Haat That Eats the Farmer
Bangladesh raises more sacrificial cattle than it needs, then prices each animal by eye, hauls it to Dhaka, and lets the market collapse over the final days at the farmer's expense. A weighing scale fixes most of it.
যে হাট কৃষককে খায়
Read in English · বাংলায় পড়ুন →

Latest research · সাম্প্রতিক গবেষণা

All publications →

Every publication, in publication order. No editorial curation, no stale "featured" picks.

Narrative
2026-09-06
Three growth scenarios for 2036
Three explicit growth assumptions, their income implications and the policy choices to examine alongside them.
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Narrative
2026-09-06
The institutions weakened, and so did the numbers that measure them
Every institutional score fell, the statistics with them, and the digital economy is a gender gap with a geography.
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Narrative
2026-09-06
Bangladesh 2036: The Decade That Decides
Sixty research chapters on Bangladesh’s economy, institutions and possible futures
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Narrative
2026-09-06
60 Diaspora, soft power and the nation brand
A diaspora strategy needs an investment account
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Narrative
2026-09-06
59 Food inflation and the cost of living
Disinflation has to reach the food budget
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Browse by sector · খাতভিত্তিক বিশ্লেষণ

All sectors →

51 sector modules grouped into 8 dimensions. Pick a thread.

Economic Resilience 8 Human Capital 6 Infrastructure 6 Governance 7 Social Inclusion 4 Environmental 8 Industrial Diversification 10 External Resilience 5

Platforms · প্ল্যাটফর্ম

All tools & models →

The standing instruments: the state mapped, the budget decomposed, the risks watched live. Built from primary records, forecasts, and satellite data, not static reports.

Government digital twin · শ্যাডো ক্যাবিনেট
GovTwin
974 government entities mapped with budgets, officials, committees, and legal mandates, down to all 64 districts and 492 upazilas. Each body's crisis responsibilities carry the live watch level.
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FY2026-27 · verified against MoF PDFs
Budget Hub
The proposed budget decomposed: 62 demands, sector rollups, revision history, a 53-measure speech tracker, and a six-rule verification gate documented on every number.
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UN LDC track · decision pending
LDC 2029 Monitor
Bangladesh's requested graduation deferral to 24 November 2029, tracked decision by decision, with the CDP's reform conditions scored continuously against live platform data.
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Hazard scoreboard · সংকট পূর্বাভাস
Crisis Orb
The national early-warning watch: tracked hazards across macro-financial, climate, public health and urban categories, with per-hazard drill-down and driver tables, bilingual.
Open the orb →
Live · refreshed 4x/day · বাংলা
National Early Warning
Flood, heat, drought, and cyclone risk across all 8 divisions, with live crop-stage tracking for 8 field crops. Built from Open-Meteo forecasts and the DAE crop calendar, in Bangla.
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Spatial atlas · satellite + survey
Bangladesh GIS
District-level layers from satellite and survey sources: relative wealth, night-time lights, vegetation, surface heat, air quality, rainfall, and surface water, with wealth down to upazila level.
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Methodology

47 institutional sources, 233 indicators. Every chart sourced; every brief AI-augmented and reviewed; nothing fabricated.

How this site is built →
Team

Shahida Pervin, PhD · Assistant Professor of Economics, Waseda University.

Md Deluair Hossen, PhD · International trade economist. Former Deputy Director, Bangladesh Bank.

Open data

World Bank, IMF, Bangladesh Bank, BBS, UN agencies, NASA, ESA, Google Earth Engine. Satellite tiles via Landsat, Sentinel-5P, MODIS, VIIRS, GRACE.

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