Bangladesh has a unique model of development that stands out from the traditional unidirectional developmental pattern. Domestic microfinance institutions and international development organizations play a significant role in designing, financing, and scaling development strategies that meet...

Non-tariff measures (NTMs) affect the labour market indirectly through trade. However, much ambiguity surrounds the labour market effects of NTMs, as conditions of the labour market are somewhat contextual. With a specific focus on the highly regulated food processing sector in Malaysia, this...

The import intensive food processing sector in Malaysia is highly regulated with non-tariff measures (NTMs) from the import side. However, the ad-valorem equivalents (AVEs) of those NTMs vary substantially across the sub-sectors of food processing. To assess the trade costs or plausible...

Adaptation financing is a major challenge for developing countries, including emerging economies in Asia. No single mechanism can bridge the adaptation funding mechanism. Focusing on climate change, many reports recently published intensifying potential climate change impacts on agriculture and...

There is strong scientific evidence that energy consumption and production are often related to greenhouse emissions. It has been argued that the cost of taking smart, effective cooperative action towards reducing global warming should be manageable. Following an effective approach, our work...

This study focuses on climate-related vulnerability for Malaysian agriculture. We use an analysis of impacts based on observational records of inter-annual variability in precipitation and warming climatic factors. The assessment involved General Circulation Models (GCMs) together with the Stern...

The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as one of the deadliest infectious diseases on the planet. Millions of people and businesses have been placed in lockdown where the main aim is to stop the spread of the virus. As an extreme phenomenon, the lockdown has triggered a global economic shock at an...

Bangladesh to be a developed nation by 2041 following the present government’s declaration and the pace of growth suggests that it may be possible. The government's motto of being a middle-income country by 2021 has earned it a lot of prestige, but it's losing it now by implying that we'll be...

The overall goal of this paper is to review policy analysis for subsequent policy changes with a variety of quantitative methods - to improve the impact of trade on rural poverty and environmental sustainability. This study seeks to improve understanding of the relationship between trade...

It has been widely accepted that economic globalization is inevitable, and that globalization plays an increasingly important role in determining relative economic growth among countries. Considerable studies have addressed that increased in globalization or trade liberalization is directly or...