Sanem economists’ conference begins tomorrow

The South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (Sanem) is going to organise a two-day Annual Economists' Conference 2023 titled "Building Resilience to Shocks: Priorities, Challenges and Prospects" at Brac Centre in Dhaka from tomorrow. 

The programme was announced by Selim Raihan, executive director of the Dhaka-based non-profit research organisation, at a virtual press conference yesterday.

There will be 23 sessions where participants will focus a variety of issues, he said.

These include health, education, poverty, inequality, environment, labour market, gender, trade, structural transformation, macroeconomics, monetary economics, energy, digital economics and emerging global economic challenges.

About 300 economists, researchers, development activists, policymakers, teachers and students from South Asia will attend in person while another 400 from around the world will join virtually.

Scholars and economists from home and abroad will present their research, said Raihan, also a professor of the Department of Economics at the University of Dhaka.

There will be discussions of senior teachers and economists while many young students will present papers, said Sayema Haque Bidisha, research director of Sanem and a professor at the department.

Those who have recently graduated from different universities have learned a lot of new things and they will share those, which, in effect, will encourage them to conduct more research, she added.

The conference is scheduled to have three panel discussions and presentation of 80 research papers.