Research infrastructure

Tools, models & simulators

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.

Institutional monitoring

Government Watch

267 ministries, agencies and committees, each verified and source-linked with a live activity feed. Part of the 907-entity Watch.

Open Government Watch →

Causal toolkit

EconAI

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

Narratives

30 Pueyo-style essays with embedded charts. Bangladesh is Drowning, Glowing, Greening, Eroding, Dividing, plus bilingual op-eds.

Read the series →

General equilibrium

CGE Model

Calibration, HAR file parser, model and solver for Bangladesh-specific computable general equilibrium analysis. Drives tariff and shock simulations behind the scenes.

Internal model

Tariff simulation

Trade Simulator

Set tariff schedules and partner shocks; see the implied impact on imports, exports and revenue.

Run a simulation →

Spatial

3D GIS & Satellite

Sentinel, Landsat, MODIS, VIIRS, GRACE and SRTM tiles for nightlights, vegetation, water, gravity, elevation.

Open the map →

Employment · EC2013

Bangladesh Jobs Atlas

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.