Is the Bangladesh Paradox Sustainable?

Part I. The Political, Economic, and Institutional Background of Bangladesh's Development: 1. An institutional diagnostic of Bangladesh: an introduction Selim Raihan and Francois Bourguignon; 2. Bangladesh's development: achievements and challenges Selim Raihan and Francois Bourguignon; 3. Critical institutional areas for Bangladesh's development Selim Raihan, Rafiqua Ferdousi and Towhid Iqram Mahmood; Part II. Six Challenging Institutional Areas: 4. Informal institutions, the rmg sector, and the present challenge of export diversification in Bangladesh Selim Raihan, with discussion by Jaime de Melo; 5. Political economy of private bank governance in Bangladesh Mirza Hassan, Sayema Haque Bidisha, Towhid Iqram Mahmood and Selim Raihan, with discussion by Thorsten Beck; 6. Institutional dimensions of tax reforms in Bangladesh Sadiq Ahmed, with discussion by Christopher Heady; 7. Institutional challenges in public spending: the case of primary education Selim Raihan, Zubayer Hossen, Bazlul Haque Khondker, with discussion by Elizabeth M. King; 8. Institutional challenges in land administration and management in Bangladesh Selim Raihan, Md. Jahid Ebn Jalal, Eshrat Sharmin and M. Abu Eusuf, with discussion by Dilip Mookherjee; 9. Political economy analysis of the role of the judiciary in land dispossession litigation in Bangladesh Rafiqua Ferdousi, Kazi Maruful Islam and Selim Raihan, with discussion by Jean-Philippe Platteau; Part III. An institutional Diagnostic of Bangladesh: 10. The Bangladesh institutional diagnostic: the synthesis Francois Bourguignon, Selim Raihan and Umar Salam.