Volume 3 Issue 1 June 2020

The overall aim is to enhance the • Women's Economic Empowerment; understanding of the issues involved related and with the six priority areas as well as Women • The Blue Economy Economic Empowerment and the Blue Economy of the Association. [...] The economic accounting exercise to estimate these measures led to the identification of information gaps and suggested methods for the government to fill them, including estimating the costs of environmental degradation in the ocean and the size and distribution of the economic costs and benefits of possible development pathways. [...] Though differently defined in many contexts, the OECD (2016) recently provided a widely used definition of the ocean economy as the sum of the economic activities of ocean- based industries,2 and the assets, goods, and services of marine ecosystems (or simply ‘ecosystem assets’).3 This study considered the output from those economic activities using the OECD’s definition of the ocean economy, that. [...] Following Park and Kildow (2014), for operational purposes this study defined the ocean economy in Bangladesh as the sum of the economic activities of ocean-based industries that take place in areas under the Government’s jurisdiction, and the assets, goods and services of marine ecosystems in the country’s waters. [...] A second step in the process could be to articulate a range of policy scenarios for development of the country’s ocean economy, building upon the initial assessment of the size and scope of this segment of the national economy provided in Table 1 as a baseline, together with the summary of information available on the status of the underlying natural capital assets.