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State of the Bangladesh economy and an analysis of the National Budget for FY2008-09 - Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2008This paper analyses major proposals in the budget with a view to assess the implications of the FY2008-09 budget proposals for the economy, highlights the challenges of implementation of the proposed measures, and identifies areas where additional interventions would be required.DocumentUnited Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) XII: outcomes and subsequent priorities for Bangladesh and other LDCs
Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2008This paper focuses on the UNCTAD XII Conference that took place in Accra, Ghana during 20-25 April 2008. In view of the worldwide volatile price situation of essential commodities, alongside the deadlock in the Doha Round of the trade negotiations, UNCTAD XII had generated high expectations for developing countries in general, and LDCs in particular.DocumentLeast Developed Countries (LDCs) in the Global Value Chain (GVC): trends, determinants and challenges
Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2014For the least developed countries (LDCs) to enhance the scope and depth of their gainful engagement in wide varieties of global values chains (GVC), they would have to identify the factors which influence their participation in the international production systems and act on them.DocumentRecent developments in Myanmar and new opportunities for sub-regional cooperation: a Bangladesh perspective
Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2014The current paper analyses the potential opportunities between Bangladesh and Myanmar stemming from sub‐regional cooperation. With the election of a new quasi‐civilian government in 2011, doors have opened for the international community to make the most of Myanmar’s untapped resources.DocumentIndia's Coal supply security: pushing iImports at the expense of domestic reforms?
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014Coal India Ltd. (CIL) has not been able to supply the committed quantity of coal to the power producers, forcing them to source coal from other countries. Apart from this, many coal blocks which should have been in operation by now are yet to come on-stream. If these blocks come into operation, India’s coal imports would reduce substantially.DocumentCan the employment impacts of manufacturing extension Help counter inequality? Lessons for developing nations from the U.S. experience
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014United States manufacturing firms employ over 13 million people and make $1.6 trillion worth of goods a year. Manufacturing accounts for more than 80% of all U.S. exports and roughly two-thirds of total U.S. research and development expenditures. Yet over 85% of manufacturing jobs are in establishments with fewer than 50 employees.DocumentThe Motor Industry Development Programme 1995 - 2012: what have we learned?
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014The Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) has been one of the most significant industrial policy interventions since 1994, both because of the powerful incentive structure it established and because of the sheer size of the industry it impacted.DocumentAfrican industrialisation: is global value chain development the answer?
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014Industrialisation and industrial policy have been recently returned to policy debate in sub-saharan Africa following a hiatus for some three decades since the implementation of Structural Adjustment Programmes in the wake of the debt crisis.DocumentAn assessment of opportunities for local production of construction and building materials using the South African public housing delivery programme as a procurement lever
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014The objective of this study is to review challenges and opportunities in the delivery of the public housing programme. The focus is on assessing opportunities for local production and manufacturing of construction materials.DocumentMoving from ‘anti-development ’ microcredit to a ‘developmental’ local financial system in South Africa
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014It increasingly recognised around the world that an effective local financial system is a pivotal prerequisite for sustainable bottom-up local economic and Industrial SME development. Put very simply, a local economy requires a local financial system capable of intermediating scarce financial and other resources into the highest productivity uses.Pages