South Asia’s growth prospects have weakened amid increasing uncertainty in the global economy. Regional growth is projected to slow to 5.8 percent in 2025—0.4 percentage points...
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Bangladesh’s post pandemic recovery faces continued headwinds in FY24. Economic conditions worsened in FY23 as inflation increased and the balance of payments deficit widened. The introduction of a multiple...
Purpose The first purpose of this study is to examine the impacts of climate-caused cereal productivity changes on food security, welfare and GDP in South Asian countries. The second purpose is to assess...
Numerous structural vulnerabilities put developing regions at a disadvantage as they confront the prospect of increasingly frequent extreme shocks. Typical of these regions, South Asia had...
We use economywide models to examine the economic recovery from COVID-19 shocks in Bangladesh and Nepal during 2020–2026. Declining labor productivity, capital underutilization, consumption shifts...
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The special focus of this report deals with challenges related to poverty reduction.
Preliminary analysis of the 2022 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) provides new data...
At just under six percent, South Asia is expected to grow faster than any other developing country region this year—but slower than its pre-pandemic pace and not...
Bangladesh navigated the COVID-19 pandemic with prudent macroeconomic policies, and real GDP growth rebounded to 7.1 percent in FY22. The recovery benefited from containment of the COVID-19 pandemic, resurgence...