Research
BDPolicyLab is an independent policy research platform for Bangladesh. The output spans short policy briefs, long-form narratives, a daily advisor, costed prescriptions, and a public question interface. Every piece is grounded in real data from the World Bank, IMF, Bangladesh Bank, and other primary sources.
Output
Briefs
Data-driven analyses across the economy, governance, climate, and trade, each traced to primary sources.
Open policy briefs →Narratives
Long-form, chart-driven stories that walk through a single question from the data up.
Open narratives →Daily
A daily reading of the indicators with the one move worth making, refreshed every morning.
Open daily advisor →Action
Concrete, costed policy actions drawn from the analysis, ranked by leverage.
Open prescriptions →Q&A
Put a question to the institute's work and get an answer grounded only in published research.
Open ask →Latest
Bangladesh does not lack research institutions, it lacks the channels that force evidence into decisions. The constraint is not the count of think tanks but a broken commissioning model, near-zero independent parliamentary research capacity, and a statistical base too slow to inform live policy.
Read brief →This indicator captures the share of exports in GDP rather than export volumes or competitiveness in specific product categories, so it can shift due to GDP growth, exchange rate movements, and commodity price changes without necessarily reflecting underlying trade performance.
Read brief →Annual GDP growth figures are subject to subsequent revision as national accounts data and methodology are refined, meaning the 2024 estimate may change in future releases.
Read brief →The current account balance as a share of GDP can be influenced by revisions to either the balance numerator or the GDP denominator, and preliminary figures for 2024 may be subject to subsequent updating.
Read brief →This indicator measures the share of population with access to electricity but does not capture hours of available supply, voltage quality, or the frequency of outages, all of which materially affect the welfare impact of a connection.
Read brief →Life expectancy at birth is a modeled estimate derived from age-specific mortality data and is sensitive to underreporting of deaths, particularly in areas with incomplete civil registration systems.
Read brief →