BEI 
An article written by Ambassador M Humayun Kabir, President, Bangladesh Enterprise Institute on President Biden's State of the Union address: Big ideas with huge strategic importance, The Financial Express, 11 May 2021
President Biden's State of the Union address: Big ideas with huge strategic importance M Humayun Kabir | Published: May 11, 2021 21:20:54 Traditionally, the State of the Union address is a domestic ...
BEI Weekly News Highlights: A Brief Highlights on Contemporary Issues of South Asia, April 30, 2021-May 06, 2021
BEI Weekly News Highlights: A Brief Highlights on Contemporary Issues of South Asia, April 30, 2021-May 06, 2021 for details is available for download. ...
BEI Weekly News Highlights: A Brief Highlights on Contemporary Issues of South Asia
In compiling this weekly news update, BEI has attempted to include the most relevant stories from the past week related to the South Asian Region. Occasionally, news from beyond South ...
BEI Journal 2020
Bangladesh has been the largest exporter of jute and jute products with around two-thirds share of the global market. However, the amount of export earnings and the share of jute ...
Navigating New Waters Unleashing Bangladesh’s Export Potential for Smooth LDC Graduation
Bangladesh has made phenomenal progress in its economic development. From a fragile socio-economic set up at independence, it has emerged as a ‘development surprise’.1 Despite confronting numerous socio-economic challenges, its ...
Bangladesh-China Trade and Economic Cooperation Issues and Perspectives
China has emerged as a global economic superpower having achieved high economic growth sustained for a very long period and in the process becoming the world’s largest exporter of and ...
Reviving Exports of Jute Products from Bangladesh
Traditionally labelled as ‘golden fibre’, jute used to be the most important source of foreign exchange for Bangladesh until the mid-1980s. Despite being the second-largest (after India) jute producer in ...
Mr. Faiz Sobhan, Senior Research Director, BEI, latest article entitled, ‘After Sri Lanka, Asia should brace itself for more IS terrorist attacks’, was published by the Nikkei Asian Review on 5 June 2019
Mr. Faiz Sobhan, Senior Research Director, BEI, latest article entitled, ‘After Sri Lanka, Asia should brace itself for more IS terrorist attacks’, was published by the Nikkei Asian Review on ...
Bangladesh’s Graduation from the Group of LDCs Issues for the Private Sector
Defying overwhelming odds, Bangladesh has continued to demonstrate impressive socio-economic progress. The impending graduation from least developed country (LDC) status is a global acknowledgement of the country’s major developmental transition. ...
Boosting Plastic Exports from Bangladesh
The plastic industry is one of the most prominent emerging manufacturing sectors in Bangladesh. Buoyed by strong domestic demand, it has experienced rapid growth in recent times. The sector is ...
Tapping into Services Exports Issues and Policy Options
Estimated at around US$ 160 billion in 2018-19, the services sector comprises just over 51 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP). The sector employs 23.7 million people which ...
Promoting Bangladesh’s Exports to India
India is the fastest growing country amongst the world’s largest economies and is set to become the third largest economy soon after 2030, only behind China and the United States. ...