Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh

The Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh (PRI) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of the Bangladesh economy, its key policy challenges, domestically, and in a rapidly integrating global marketplace. PRI is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased policy-oriented economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.

PRI’s staff pursues this mission by performing timely, accurate research on key policy issues and effectively disseminating these findings to its primary audiences. PRI’s current areas of research include but not limited to the following:

Macroeconomic management focusing, inter alia , on fiscal policy, monetary management, interest rate, and exchange rate policies;
Poverty reduction approaches and strategies;
Trade, openness and competitiveness;
WTO issues in a development perspective;
Regional cooperation and issues of bilateral and multilateral trade arrangements;
Study of agriculture, industry and service sectors;
Private sector development;
Reforms in tax policy and tax administration;
Board-based economic and governance reforms.
To complement the above mentioned research, PRI has been providing technical and policy support to the Government of Bangladesh in the following Ministries: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce, Planning Commission, Bangladesh Tariff Commission National Board of Revenue, Bangladesh Bank, and the Prime Minister’s Secretariat. In July 2011, PRI completed drafting of the Sixth Five Year Plan 2011-2015 for the Government and re-drafted the final version of the Perspective Plan 2010-2021. Recognizing the need to maintain strong and sustainable partnerships with the private sector and civil society, the Institute works closely with Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI), Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (MCCI), the Yunus Center (established by Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus), South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes (SANEI), Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM), SME Foundation (SMEF), Asian Tiger Capital Partners Ltd, and Bangladesh Development Initiative, USA.

As a leading think-tank in Bangladesh, PRI’s focus is on the application of the latest advances in theoretical and empirical research to policy relevant analysis. In this connection, PRI also works closely with leading international research and development agencies such as The World Bank, Asian Development Bank, International Finance Corporation, IMF, UNDP, International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE, USAID, and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).