Development of Bangladesh with Equity and Justice: Immediate Tasks for the New Government

The volume opens with a paper on challenges of macroeconomic management in Bangladesh in the face of the brewing global economic crisis. The second theme includes two papers - one on crop production and the other on food security. A related theme, namely, provisioning of social safety net through employment generation scheme, has also been included in the volume. Another set of themes dwelt with three issues, each of which is of autonomous importance. These issues include the challenges of adding new capacities in the energy sector, immediate doables for promoting information and communication technology (ICT) for development and restructuring of the jute manufacturing sector. The discussions which followed the presentation of each of the papers at the Conference have been recorded in the accompanying dialogue reports exposing the debated options and choices in each of these areas. The present publication needs to be considered in the context of CPD's sustained efforts to use its analytical research and policy dialogues to catalyse an inclusive and participatory development process in Bangladesh. After the national elections of December 2008, CPD, in keeping with its track record, prepared a series of analytical papers on a select set of critical developmental challenges facing the new government. Most of these papers were presented at a two-day long Conference titled Development with Equity and Justice: Immediate Tasks for the Newly Elected Government. The Conference was held in Dhaka on 28-29 March 2009 and was attended by a large number of Cabinet Ministers, Members of Parliament, political leaders, leaders of trade bodies, academics, policy activists and development practitioners. The papers presented at this Conference and the dialogue reports capturing the rich discussions which took place in the Conference, along with a couple of other contributions, have been included in this volume. All these papers were prepared under CPD's IRBD programme.

Contributors: Muhammad Al Amin, Subir Kanti Bairagi, Debapriya Bhattacharya, Sharmin Chowdhury, Uttam Deb, Mahabub Hossain, Md Ashiq Iqbal, Nafisa Khaled, M Fouzul Kabir Khan, Towfiqul Islam Khan, Fahmida Khatun, Khondaker Golam Moazzem, Ashiqun Nabi, Tapas Kumar Paul, Kazi Mahmudur Rahman, Mustafizur Rahman and Ananya Raihan

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