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Conference Overview & Host Profile

Academic exchange, policy engagement, and collaboration across economics and development.

Conference Overview

The Third International Conference, jointly organized by the Department of Economics and the Bureau of Economic Research (BER), University of Dhaka, will provide an international platform for rigorous academic discussion, evidence-based policy dialogue, and exchange of ideas on contemporary economic challenges and emerging development priorities.

The conference will encourage interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, with particular attention to Bangladesh, South Asia, developing economies, and the wider global economy.

Objectives

  • Promote high-quality economic research and scholarly exchange.
  • Facilitate dialogue between researchers and policymakers.
  • Encourage the use of empirical evidence in public policy formulation.
  • Create opportunities for students and early-career researchers.
  • Strengthen collaboration across academia, government, development organizations, and industry.
  • Generate policy-relevant insights on major economic challenges.

Target Audience

ScholarsPolicymakersGovernment OfficialsDevelopment PartnersIndustry ExpertsThink TanksGraduate StudentsUndergraduate StudentsEarly-Career Researchers

Department of Economics

The Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, is one of the University's founding academic departments. It has a long tradition of teaching, research, and policy engagement across major fields of economics.

The Department contributes to the development of economists, researchers, policymakers, and professionals through academic programmes, research, and public discourse.

Bureau of Economic Research (BER)

The Bureau of Economic Research is a research organ of the University of Dhaka with a long-standing role in economic and social research, empirical analysis, policy studies, and research capacity development.

BER supports the connection between academic economics and practical policy research.