CMI and Bangladesh

CMI has been a competence-centre on Bangladesh since the 1950s. Focusing on socio-economic and demographic issues, Bangladesh was a key component of the Development Economics Research and Advisory Project (DERAP) that started in 1961.

CMI Staff

Ask, Karin

Bleie, Tone

Jerve, Alf Morten

Miranda, Armindo

Sissener, Tone K.

Wiig, Arne

Co-operation between scholars from Bangladesh and CMI was institutionalised with an agreement between CMI and Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in 1978, which facilitated scholarly exchange and guest researchers from Bagladesh for more thatn 20 years.

Today, there are 6 projects on Bangladesh at CMI. Among the 6 researchers working on Bangladesh, there are both economists and anthropologists, covering key areas such as poverty, economics, public sector, manufacturing sector, child labour, education and gender.

CMI projects on Bangladesh:

U4: In-country basic training
Training of Utstein agency staff in anti-corruption strategies is a service developed by the U4 anti-corruption resource centre and TI. This is done through four annual basic training courses online, ...
Start date: Feb. 2005 (Current)

The role of courts and civil society in safeguarding women's human rights in Bangladesh
In spite of more than three decades of efforts to promote women's rights in Bangladesh, the results have been piecemal and only slowly forthcoming, leaving unanswered a number of questions about the ...
Start date: Jul. 2004 (Initiation)

The Human Rights Situation of the Adibasis of Bangladesh
This study analyses the current situation for the adibasis (indigenous) people in north-west Bangladesh. Since the independence, the adibasis have experienced land loss, circumvention of land laws, social ...
Start date: Dec. 2003 (Current)

Assessment of multilateral organisations performance
A group of eight likeminded donors agreed in 2002 to form the Multilateral Organisations Performance Network (MOPAN) to cooperate in the monitoring of multilaterals. 2003 is a pilot year focusing on the ...
Start date: Jan. 2003 (Completed)

Experience from Bangladesh with ethical trading
This project gives an overview of the current labour conditions in the garment sector in Bangladesh, and evaluate the implementation of ethical codes of conduct imposed by foreign customers on Bangladesh ...
Start date: Jan. 2003 (Completed)

Forming a Partnership Arrangement: BIDS-CMI?

A feasability study has been undertaken in order to analyse whether CMI and Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) should establish a partnership Arrangement. The main part of such an arrangment ...
Start date: Jan. 2003 (Current)

Balance of payments support to Bangladesh
Norway has been requested by IMF to provide balance of payments (BOP) support to Bangladesh, which is facing a critical reduction in its foreign exchange reserves. The country is in urgent need of foreign ...
Start date: Jan. 2002 (Completed)

Corruption in the Education Sector in Bangladesh
The project focuses on the relationship between education and corruption in Bangladesh. The main interest is in the types of interpersonal transactions involved in getting access to resources within the ...
Start date: Jan. 2001 (Current)

Country advisor to NORAD on Bangladesh
The project is part of the Country Reporting Agreement between NORAD, CMI and the Nordic Consulting Group (NCG). The annual report consists of a Part I which synthesises and assesses existing information ...
Start date: Jan. 2000 (Initiation)

Country specific aid reviews
In collaboration with the Nordic Consulting Group, CMI entered in 1999 into a two-year contract with NORAD to assist in the preparation of country specific analyses concerning the macro-economic, social ...
Start date: Jan. 1999 (Initiation)

Participatory study on Santal culture in Bangladesh
The project, which started in September 1996 and ran over three years, was funded by the Strømme Memorial Foundation, a Norwegian NGO. The project was co-ordinated by Tone Bleie and a counterpart Bangladeshi ...
Start date: Sep. 1996 (Completed)