These broad topics have been identified through a process of consultation with all BIDS researchers. Within these areas, we will identify specific research questions, generated through extensive discussion with key stakeholders, principally policy makers, practitioners, and development partners. This process of consultation will not be a one-time act but a continuous and on-going process of engagement with stakeholders to identify issues, formulate responses, generate policy products and monitor/assess impact. Space will also have to be created to accommodate views and perspectives of the poor and women in this process.
Macro and Trade
1. Growth and Inequality: Diagnostics for Policy
2. Unbundling the Service Sector: Structure, Growth and Sustainability
3. Impact of India
4. Impact of China
Agriculture
1. Land Use, Tenancy and Productivity
2. Agricultural Market Performance
3. Non-Crop Agriculture: Challenges, Potential, Constraints
4. Agricultural exports: Key Challenges and Constraints
Education
1. Public vs Private Provision
2. Evaluation of different education streams: Bangla, English, Madrassah
Energy
1. Pricing policy
2. Evaluation of privatization reforms of energy SOEs
3. FDI in energy sector
Governance and Decentralization
Labour Markets
1. Gender Relations and Labour Markets in the Context of Increasing Feminization: Perspective of Men and Women
2. The Economic and Social Cost of Migration
3. Labour Productivity in Agriculture and Manufacturing
Poverty Dynamics
1. The Ultra-Poor and Poverty Reduction Strategies
2. The Role of Shocks, Informal Credit Markets and Micro-Credit
3. Globalization and Poverty: Which Groups are By-Passed and Why?
Political Economy
1. Redefining the Role of the State: Striking the Right Balance
2. The Political Economy of Reforms`
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