Rise and Trend of Think Tanks Worldwide: A Policy Perspective

Idea comes from think tanks. And the policy relevant idea that does not exclusively come from other source but think tanks to play an important role in the policy-making process of a country. From this point of view, the notion of think tank has significantly been the magnetic phenomenon to the policy makers, statesmen, administrators, donor agencies, civil society, and other stakeholders. In this backdrop, the study mainly aims to look into the rise and trend of think tanks in different countries, such as US, China, India and Bangladesh, and identify the potentials of global think tanks to exploit these into the policy-making process of Bangladesh. Based on the secondary data, the study is carried out following the content analysis method to reach the study objective. The study argues that the rise of think tanks worldwide is time-necessitated and their current trend in policy-making process is enormously traced out with their rigorous potentials. Therefore, Bangladesh as a developing country can exploit the potentials of think tanks into its policy-making process as followed by the global think tanks.