Purpose – To provide and assess trends on the status of women in Bangladesh in terms of key macro level indicators namely, women's labour force participation, educational attainments and earnings vis‐à‐vis men. Design/methodology/approach – The trends in women's workforce participation,...

This paper investigates the exchange rate responses to inflation in Bangladesh during the period from 1972-73 to 1999. Both annual and monthly data are used in the investigation. The results suggest that past consumer price inflation generally led to currency devaluation, measured as a decline...

This paper has examined the phenomenon of convergence of per capita output levels across regions of Bangladesh during 1982-97. The main finding is that most of the regions of Bangladesh experienced strong convergence of per capita output levels during 1982-91. There are two other findings within...

This Paper examines aspects of the Chadha-Teja thesis that expansionary macroeconomic policies, rather than floods, might have caused the 1974 Bangladesh Famine. Although empirical findings are broadly consistent with the thesis, they are suggestive rather than conclusive. Nevertheless, one...