Bangladesh Institutional Diagnostic – Chapter 11

Bangladesh Institutional Diagnostic

Chapter 11: The Synthesis

Chapter overview:

1. Introduction
2. Identifying institutional constraints in Bangladesh’s development
   • A sketch of Bangladesh’s political history
   • Successes and challenges of Bangladesh’s economic development
   • Bangladesh’s institutional performance in global rankings
   • Bangladesh’s institutional performance based on the views of national decision makers
   • Some critical areas
3. The institutional diagnostic
   • Three overall basic institutional weaknesses of Bangladesh’s development
   • The diagnostic table
   • Analysing the basic institutional weaknesses and potential directions for reform
   • Two general directions of reform
4. Conclusion: addressing institutional challenges at a time of an unprecedented shock

References
Annex A     A list of institutional reforms suggested in the institutional diagnostic, by theme

Authors: Francois Bourguignon, Paris School of Economics, Selim Raiham, SANEM, Umar Salam, Oxford Policy Management