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Implemented by
Economic Research Group and BMB Mott MacDonald
Research
Grants on Bangladesh Investment Climate
Small Grants and Academic Program (SGAPP)
Launching Events
International Finance Corporation (IFC), the member of the World
Bank as well Economic Research Group (ERG), launched BICF Small
Grants Program (SGAPP) on 21st August, 2008 at Pan Pacific Sonargaon.
Professor Wahiduddin Mahmud was the moderator of that program and
said that Small grants will facilitate innovative and relevant
in-depth research on the investment climate and private sector
development in Bangladesh. Academic partnerships will help to
introduce comprehensive undergraduate courses on investment climate
issues within the economics or business department of private
universities and provide the top-performing students of these
programs with internships at selected chambers of commerce or
business associations to conduct research. Grants will also assist
the selected universities in establishing dedicated Investment
Climate Units (ICUs), to conduct long-term research on investment
climate and private sector development issues.
Professor A k Enamul Haque, Executive Director of Economic Research
Group and Dr. Syed Akhtar Mahmood, Senior Program Manager, IFC,
introduced the 6 awardees on that event. Press media Daily Prothom
Alo, Finanacial Express as well as Daily Ittefaq coverage the news
in the newspaper.
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