Research infrastructure
What sits behind the publications. The same code that generates every brief is open and queryable, from the causal-inference toolkit to the live early-warning maps.
The directory
What to check first: the live risk and early-warning layer, updated from the crisis engine, and the flagship analyses.
The Crisis Orb: a live, level-anchored hazard board.
The national early-warning board across hazards.
The daily policy prescription, generated each morning.
Live macroeconomic indicators with sparklines.
The FY2026-27 budget overview: revenue, spending, and the deficit.
Flagship studies, sector briefs, and recurring reports, by topic.
The analytical engines: simulate, query, benchmark, and map.
The digital twin of the state: every entity, mapped and linked.
Inject a sector shock and trace it through input-output linkages.
Shock trade flows and read the effect through the model.
Ask the corpus: answers grounded in published work, with citations.
The causal-inference toolkit: estimators, figures, and tables.
District choropleths across indicators.
Three-dimensional geospatial views of Bangladesh.
The local layer: districts and upazilas across the country.
Filter the budget by year and sector, interactively.
The labour market by district, sector, and skill.
Bangladesh against peer economies across indicators.
The evidence base: the data house, the simulator, and the twin.
Standing watch: institutions, hazards, and delivery, tracked over time.
The Watch hub: seven institutional registers, tracked over time.
Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Government Watch: the executive, tracked over time.
Parliament Watch: members and their activity.
University Watch: the higher-education system, tracked.
NGO Watch: civil society and development NGOs, tracked.
Development Partner Watch: the donors, tracked.
Industry Association Watch: the apex chambers, tracked.
The bank distress watch: stress signals across banks.
The LDC 2029 graduation monitor.
Early warning for the haor flood basin.
The multi-hazard exposure atlas, by district.
Where hazards compound across the same places.
A priority index ranking places by combined risk.
Cropland exposed to flood, heat, and salinity.
The disaster ledger: events and losses over time.
The Annual Development Programme by ministry, with execution rates.
ADP execution: allocation, completion, and overdue projects.
How concentrated spending is across the top units.
How concentrated exports are, by product and market.
Satellite-derived indicators for Bangladesh.
Government-linked companies, their ownership, and board links.
State-owned enterprises by sector and finances, and their owners.
Economic zones and export processing zones, by location and status.
The largest development projects: cost, financier, and delivery.
The claim store: every published number, verified and source-linked.
The source library: the primary documents behind the corpus.
Long-form research formats, the state's structure, and how the platform works.
Long-form data narratives that walk through an argument.
Recurring advisor series, from weekly reads to annual reviews.
The library of policy prescriptions, by crisis domain.
Seven sector deep-dives: banking, trade, energy, agriculture, and more.
Verified findings on credibility, expansion, and execution risk.
Every ministry ranked by allocation, debt line held apart.
Spending by sector, with financing churn separated out.
The three-year trajectory of ministry spending.
Budget-speech measures tracked from pledge to delivery.
The source budget documents, by volume and category.
How figures are extracted, verified, and reconciled.
Jatiya Sangsad: members, committees, and the legislature.
Ministries, divisions, and the directorates beneath them.
How the layers fit together, from constitution to local body.
The statutes and rules that create and bound each institution.
Who answers to whom: the oversight lines across the state.
The dependency graph linking entities, budgets, and officials.
Who we are and what BDPolicyLab is.
How the platform is built and how figures are sourced.
Reach us, and how to flag a correction.
Highlights
Institutional monitoring
321 ministries, agencies and committees, each verified and source-linked with a live activity feed. Part of the 961-entity Watch.
Open Government Watch →Causal toolkit
12 estimators (OLS, IV, Panel FE, DiD, RDD, Double ML, Causal Forest, Synthetic DiD, Staggered DiD, Shift-Share, Bounds, Randomization Inference) with figures and balance tables.
See the toolkit →Long-form
Pueyo-style essays with embedded charts. Bangladesh is Drowning, Glowing, Greening, Eroding, Dividing, plus bilingual op-eds.
Read the series →General equilibrium
Calibration, HAR file parser, model and solver for Bangladesh-specific computable general equilibrium analysis. Drives tariff and shock simulations behind the scenes.
Internal modelTariff simulation
Set tariff schedules and partner shocks; see the implied impact on imports, exports and revenue.
Run a simulation →Input-output
A fifty-sector input-output model of Bangladesh: output, value-added, employment, import and revenue effects of any demand or public-investment shock.
Run a scenario →Spatial
Sentinel, Landsat, MODIS, VIIRS, GRACE and SRTM tiles for nightlights, vegetation, water, gravity, elevation.
Open the map →Employment · EC2013
16.3 million persons engaged across 11 sectors, placed as 163K dots using BBS Economic Census 2013 and WorldPop dasymetric weighting. Toggle sectors, zoom to districts.
Explore the map →আজকের পরিস্থিতি · দিনে চারবার হালনাগাদ
৮ বিভাগের বন্যা, তাপ, খরা ও ঘূর্ণিঝড় ঝুঁকি, ও মাঠের ৮টি ফসলের চলমান পর্যায়। Open-Meteo পূর্বাভাস + DAE ফসল ক্যালেন্ডার, পুরো পাতা বাংলায়।
মানচিত্র ও সতর্কতা দেখুন →Live, refreshed 4x/day
Per-upazila Boro paddy harvest urgency for Sunamganj and Habiganj, computed live from Open-Meteo ECMWF IFS rainfall forecast over the upper Meghna catchment.
See the live state →Hazard scoreboard · সংকট পূর্বাভাস
A live, level-anchored hazard board across macro-financial, climate, public-health and demographic risk, graded calm to crisis. Bilingual cards with per-hazard drill-down and driver tables.
Open the orb →