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Economic Data on Bangladesh
Micro Data
1) Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey (ICDDR, B):
http://www.rand.org/labor/FLS/MHSS/
2) IFPRI micro datasets from Bangladesh:
a) SHAHAR (Supporting Household Activities for Health, Assets and Revenue)
project;
http://www.ifpri.org/data/Bangladesh04.htm
b) Commercial Vegetable and Polyculture Fish Production
http://www.ifpri.org/data/Bangladesh01.htm
c) Coping Strategies
(disaster response to floods)
http://www.ifpri.org/data/Bangladesh03.htm
3) Nutrition Survey of Bangladesh (Pitt and Rosenzweig)
Indoor air pollution paper:
http://www.pstc.brown.edu/faculty/papers/iap6.pdf
4) DHS Surveys (USAID)
http://www.measuredhs.com/countries/country_main.cfm?ctry_id=1
5) Household Income and Expenditure Surveys (BBS/World Bank)
Datasets can be ordered via the Secretary, Statistics Division, BBS, Dhaka.
The complete dataset
costs US$1000 per round.
http://www.bbs.gov.bd/contact.php
6) Nutritional Surveillance Project (HKI)
Datasets available on demand from the Country Director, Helen Keller
International, Dhaka
http://www.hki.org/research/bangladesh_research.html
7) World Bank Household surveys (Pitt and Khandker)
http://go.worldbank.org/E9WWFZIXJ0
Macro Data
1) Doing business in Bangladesh (World Bank)
http://www.doingbusiness.org/ExploreEconomies/?economyid=17
2) IMF papers on Bangladesh
a)
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2007/cr07229.pdf (macro data)
b)
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2007/cr07230.pdf (latest "Article 4
report")
c)
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2007/cr07234.pdf (Bangladesh's PRSP)
d)
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2006/cr0653.pdf (IMF/Bank staff's
comments)
3) Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
http://www.bbs.gov.bd/
4) Bangladesh Bank
http://www.bangladesh-bank.org/
5) National Board of Revenue
http://www.nbr-bd.org/
6) Ministry of Finance
http://www.mof.gov.bd/
7) Ministry of Planning
http://www.imed.gov.bd/