Policy Brief 02: Providing Decent Employment for Youth in view of Domestic and Overseas Markets

2024-05-23T15:51:11+06:00May 23rd, 2024|

Bangladesh's demographic landscape is characterised by a large young population, which offers both significant opportunities and confronts the country with formidable challenges. As is widely recognised, the country’s performance in terms of many socio-economic indicators has been quite impressive. However, cross-country experience shows that economic growth does not necessarily translate into more and better jobs, particularly for the poor, the disadvantaged, and those in danger of falling behind.

Policy Brief 01: Transforming Agriculture for an Inclusive and Diversified Economy

2024-05-23T15:50:03+06:00May 23rd, 2024|

The agriculture sector broadly includes crops, animal farming, forests and fishing activities in the Bangladesh context. According to de Janvry & Sadoulet (2020), “current wisdom on how to use agriculture for development is that it requires asset building for smallholder farmers, productivity growth in staple foods, an agricultural transformation (diversification of farming systems toward high-value crops) and a rural transformation (value addition through rural non-farm activities linked to agriculture)”.

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