Is the Bangladesh Paradox Sustainable?

Selim Raihan is Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and the Executive Director of the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM). He is a Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Member of the Board of Directors, Global Development Network. His publications include more than 100 articles and 10 books. François Bourguignon is an Emeritus Professor of Economics, the Paris School of Economics, and School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. He is a Former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank and the Co-founder of the European Development Network. His awards include Dan David Prize and CNRS silver medal. Umar Salam is Principal Economist, Oxford Policy Management, and a Scientific Committee Member for the Economic Development and Institutions (EDI) Programme.

• Part I. The Political, Economic, and Institutional Background of Bangladesh's Development: 1. An institutional diagnostic of Bangladesh: an introduction Selim Raihan and Francois Bourguignon; 2. Bangladesh's development: achievements and challenges Selim Raihan and Francois Bourguignon; 3. Critical institutional areas for Bangladesh's development Selim Raihan, Rafiqua Ferdousi and Towhid Iqram Mahmood; Part II. Six Challenging Institutional Areas: 4. Informal institutions, the rmg sector, and the present challenge of export diversification in Bangladesh Selim Raihan, with discussion by Jaime de Melo; 5. Political economy of private bank governance in Bangladesh Mirza Hassan, Sayema Haque Bidisha, Towhid Iqram Mahmood and Selim Raihan, with discussion by Thorsten Beck; 6. Institutional dimensions of tax reforms in Bangladesh Sadiq Ahmed, with discussion by Christopher Heady; 7. Institutional challenges in public spending: the case of primary education Selim Raihan, Zubayer Hossen, Bazlul Haque Khondker, with discussion by Elizabeth M. King; 8. Institutional challenges in land administration and management in Bangladesh Selim Raihan, Md. Jahid Ebn Jalal, Eshrat Sharmin and M. Abu Eusuf, with discussion by Dilip Mookherjee; 9. Political economy analysis of the role of the judiciary in land dispossession litigation in Bangladesh Rafiqua Ferdousi, Kazi Maruful Islam and Selim Raihan, with discussion by Jean-Philippe Platteau; Part III. An institutional Diagnostic of Bangladesh: 10. The Bangladesh institutional diagnostic: the synthesis Francois Bourguignon, Selim Raihan and Umar Salam.