Housed within the NSU School of Business and Economics, Economics Research Platform (ERP) strives to:
ERP undertakes and facilitates economic research and policy analysis through:
ERP has been set up with a generous grant of BDT 1.26 crore from the University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh under the Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP), with significant co-funding from NSU. The HEQEP sub-project for setting up ERP completed successfully in 2017.
The Platform hosts a seminar series, occassional workshops and conferences. It warmly welcomes Non-Resident Bangladeshi academics and researchers who happen to be visiting Bangladesh and are keen to present their recently completed or advanced research work at ERP.
Recently, ERP hosted a national conversation on "Emerging Challenges and the National Budget: Options for Actions", providing a forum for policy makers, business leaders, eminent economists and the country’s development partners to have a candid and outcome-focused conversation on the looming economic challenges and their likely implications for the national budget of the Bangladesh Government.