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BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (BIDS) 1. Type of Organisation : Research Organisation
2. Mailing Address : E-17, Agargaon, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar,
Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.
3. Telephone No. : Tel. 8110759, 9116959
Fax No. FAX. 880-2-8113023
E-mail [email protected]
4. Head of the Organisation (Name and Designation)
: Quazi Shahabuddin Director-General.
5. Objectives : The aims and objects of the Institute are ----
a) to function as an agency for undertaking and promoting study, research and dissemination of knowledge in the field of development economics, demography and other social sciences relating to planning for national development and social welfare;
b) to collect information conduct
investigations and undertake research projects for purposes of assistance in planning and formulation of policy and implementation of plans and policies;
c) to provide facilities for training in
economics, demography and other social sciences;
d) to provide information and offer
advice on modern research techniques and methodology in economics, demography and other social sciences.
In particular and without prejudice to the
generality of the above aims and objects, the Institute have power;
1) to conduct survey, experiment, demon-stration, to hold meetings and to arrange lectures, seminars, discussions and conferences on economics, demography and other social sciences relating to studies of problems of national development and social welfare, hereinafter referred to as the studies;
2) to publish books, periodicals, reports and
research and working papers on the studies;
3) to undertake investigations including field
work on the studies on its own behalf or on behalf of or in collaboration with the Government or any institution;
4) to establish and maintain contact
with foreign scholars and their work on the studies through co-operative studies, seminars and exchange of visits or otherwise;
5) to maintain libraries and reading
rooms and equipment and instruments such as printing presses, computational and other research and office equipment photographic and other production instrument for its proper functioning;
6) to institute Research
Associateships, Fellowships of different categories including National Research Fellowships for professional workers on the studies;
7) to create within itself from time to time
branches, divisions, sections, centres and other units for the proper and efficient conduct of the activities of the Institute in different fields of the studies;
8) to accept endowments, gifts,
donations, grants and other funds and payments in lieu of services rendered;
9) to take such other actions as may further
the aims and objects of the Institute.
6. Recent Research Publication Of the Organisation (1996-99)
: Research Reports
1) Debapriya Bhattacharya, The GATT System: Role, Principles and Issues, July 1995.
2) Debapriya Bhattacharya, GO-NGO
Collaboration in Human Development Initiatives in Bangladesh, June 1995.
3) K.A.S. Murshid, The Social Impact of
DTWs on Landless Owners, May 1995.
4) Pratima Paul-Majumder, Maternal Factors Affecting Child Care, April 1995.
5) Salma Chaudhuri Zohir, An
Assessment of Industrial Policy in Bangladesh: What Policies are We Talking About? February 1996.
6) Rushidan Islam Rahman, Impact of
Credit for Rural Poor: An Evaluation of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation's Credit Programme, April 1996.
7) Mahmudul Alam and M. Salimullha,
Socio-economic Impact of Mannual Irrigation Pump (MIP) Agriculture in Bangladesh (forthcoming).
8) Mahmudul Alam, Basic Educational
Achievement in Rural Bangladesh: Level, Pattern and Socio-economic Determinants (forthcoming).
9) K.M. Nabiul Islam, Linkages and Flood
Impacts at Macro Level - A Case Study of Bangladesh, August 1996.
10) Narayan Chandra Nath, State and
Determinants of Poverty - An Empirical
Analysis at Household Level, July 1996.
11) Narayan Chandra Nath, Balance of
Payment Constraint on Growth and External Competitiveness of Bangladesh Economy, September 1996.
12) M.A. Quasem, Income Diversification
in Rural Bangladesh, October, 1996.
13) Anwara Begum, The Socio-Economic Condition of Pavement Dwellers of Dhaka City, January, 1997.
14) Narayan Chandra Nath, Export-Growth
Link in LDCa- A Case Study of Bangladesh, March 1997.
15) K.M. Nabiul Islam, The Role of
Perception, Warning and Human Factors in Flood Losses: A Case Study of Bangladesh Households, March 1997.
16) Protima Paul-Majumder and Sharifa
Begum, Upward Occupational Mobility among Female Workers in the Garment Industry of Bangladesh, October 1997.
17) Mohammad Sohail, Land Ownership,
Education and Reproductive Behaviour in Bangladesh- Conceptual Issues and Evidence, November 1997.
18) K M Nabiul Islam, Potential Indirect
Impacts of Flooding on Health- evidence from Macro-Level Data on the Incidence of Diseases in Bangladesh, December 1997.
19) Chowdhury Anwaruzzaman, Trends in
Financing Social Sector Development in Bangladesh, March, 1998.
20) Fahmida Akter Khatun, Depreciation of Forest Resources in Bangladesh, May 1998.
21) Md. Abul Quasem, Abdul Hye Mondal
and Simeen Mahmud, A Study of the Informal Sector in Bangladesh.
22) M. Asaduzzaman, Municipal Finance in
Non-Metropolitan Towns: An Agenda for Policy Action.
23) Chowdhury Anwaruzzaman,
Bangladesh Inflation - A Survey and a Methodology for Further Study.
24) S.I. Laskar, Human Resources of
Selected OIC Countries (Forthcoming).
25) Dilip Kumar Roy, Trade Policy and
Horticultural Exports in Bangladesh.
26) R. A. Mahmud & A. B. M. Shamsul Islam, Costing & Financing Water Supply.
Research Monograph 27) General Equilibrium Response to
Export Incentives: A Case Study of Bangladesh Economy, July 1998.
28) Sultan Hafeez Rahman and Forhad
Jahan Shilpi, A Macroeconometric Model of the Bangladesh Economy: Model, Estimation, Validation and Policy Simulation, June 1996.
29) Salma Chaudhuri Zohir and Pratima
Paul-Majumder, Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Economic, Social and Health Condition.
Working Paper New Series 30) Atiur Rahman et al., Shrimp Culture
and Environment in the Central Region, 1995.
31) Sadrel Reza & Rukhsana Matin,
Bangladesh Economy: Poised to Take off, 1995.
32) Quazi Shahabuddin, Performance of Small Scale Water Management Projects in Bangladesh: Socio-economic Appraisal of Baranai River Project, 1995.
33) Rushidan Islam Rahman, Small Scale
Water Management Projects in Bangladesh and Their Impact on the Rural Economy: Socio-economic Evaluation of the Pakuria Beel Project, 1995.
34) Bimal Kumar Saha, Small Scale Water
Resource Management in Bangladesh: Socio-economic Appraisal of Patuakhali Polder 43/2B Project 1995
35) Mustafa K Mujeri, Small Scale Water
Resource Management in Bangladesh: Socio-economic Appraisal of Patuakhali Polder 55/2C Project, 1995.
36) Karimullah Bhuiyan, Performance of
Small Scale Water Management Projects in Bangladesh: Rapid Rural Appraisal of Six Selected Projects. 1995.
37) Hossain Zillur Rahman, Rural Poverty
Up-Date, 1994, June 1995.
38) Sadrel Reza, The Underground Economy: A Preliminary Sketch, September 1995.
39) Rushidan Islam Rahman, Bimal Kumar
Saha and Md. Abul Quasem, Impact of Grameen Krishi foundation on the socio-economic Condition of Rural Households, February 1996.
40) Abdul Ghafur et al., Socio-Economic
Impact of Fourth Flood Control and Drainage Project, April 1996.
Special Publications
41) Credit Programs for the Poor:
Household and Intra Household Impacts and Program Sustainability. Vol. I-II.
42) BDS Volume XXIII, March-June 1995,
Nos. 1 & 2.
43) Shahidur R.Khandker and Hussain A. Samad: Education Achievements and School
44) Efficiency in Rural Bangladesh.
45) Noel Magor and A.S.M. Nazrul lslam:
Farm Households in Bangladesh.
46) Jame K. Boyce : Jute, Polypropylene, and the Environment: A Study in International Trade and Market Failure.
47) Muhammad Imam Alam, Asif Dowla
and Salim Rashid : Capital Flight from Bangladesh.
48) A.R. Chowdhury : Is The Dhaka Stock
Exchange Informational Efficient?
49) Khasruzzaman and Chaudhury: Urban Residential Land Values: The Case of a Bangladesh City.
50) M. A. Taslim: Corruption and
Entrepreneurship : A Rejoinder.
51) Mushtaq H. Khan and Kazi A. Toufique : Sand or Oil in the Machine?: A Comment on Corruption and Entrepreneurship.
52) BDS Volume XXIII, Sept.-Dec. 1995,
Nos. 3 & 4.
53) Azizur Rahman Khan : A Quarter Century of Economic Development in Bangladesh: Successes and Failures.
54) Quazi Shahabuddin and Sajjad Zohir :
Medium and Long-Term Projections of Foodgrain Demand, Supply and Trade Balance in Bangladesh.
55) Paul Dorosh and Steven Haggblade :
56) Quentin T. Wodon: Poverty in
Bangladesh: Extent and Evolution.
57) Najma R. Sharif: Single vs. Multiple Input Adjustments and the Economic Efficiency of Farmers: An Application to Rural Bangladesh.
58) Shamsul Alam : Farmers' Response to
Revenue Changes, Rainfall and Revenue Risk of the Major Crops in Bangladesh.
59) M. Manir Hossain : Devaluation in
Bangladesh: Conflicts between Trade Balance Improvement and Growth.
60) Azizur Rahman Khan : Centre for
Policy Dialogue, Growth or Stagnation? A Review of Bangladesh's Development 1996, University Press Limited, Dhaka, February 1997.
61) BDS Volume XXIV, March-June1996,
Nos. 1 & 2.
62) Nurul Islam : Bangladesh Towards Twenty- First Century.
63) Rushidan Islam Rahman :
Determinants of the Gender Composition of Employment in Manufacturing Enterprises.
64) Pratima Paul-Majumder : Health
Impact of Women's Wage Employment : A Case Study of the Garment Industry of Bangladesh.
65) Azizur Rahman Khan : Emerging Asia:
Changes and Challenges A Second Opinion.
66) Mohammad Jaforullah : Technical Efficiencies of Some Manufacturing Industries of Bangladesh: An Application of the Stochastic Frontier Production Function Approach.
67) Ashraf Nakibullah & Aminur Rahman :
Poverty-Led Higher Population Growth in Bangladesh.
68) Bazlul Haque Khondker : Foreign
Competition, Industrial Concentration and Profitability in Manufacturing Sectors in Bangladesh.
69) Dilip Kumar Roy : Poverty Alleviation
and Trade Policy Reform in Bangladesh: Some Selected Issues.
70) Serajul Islam Laskar: Urbanisation in
Bangladesh: Some Contemporary Observations.
71) Md. Abul Quasem: Agrarian Structure
and Productivity in Bangladesh and West Bengal: A Study in Comparative Perspective, by Bimal Kumar Saha, Published by the University Press Limited, Dhaka, 1997.
72) Wahiduddin Mahmud: Employment
Patterns and Income Formation Rural Bangladesh: The Role of Rural Non-farm Sector.
73) Ziad Bakht : The Rural Non-farm Sector
in Bangladesh: Evolving Pattern and Growth Potential.
74) Sona Varma & Praveen Kumar: Rural
Non-farm Employment in Bangladesh.
75) Debapriya Bhattacharya: The Emerging Pattern of Rural Non-farm Sector in Bangladesh: A Review of Micro Evidence.
76) Binayak Sen: Rural Non-farm Sector in
Bangladesh: Stagnating and Potential?
77) Shahidur R. Khandker : Role of
Targeted Credit in Rural Non-farm Growth.
78) Shahid Yusuf : The Non-Farm Road to
Higher Growth: Comparative Experience and Bangladesh's Prospects.
79) BDS Volume XXV, March-June1997,
Nos. 1 & 2.
80) Kazi Ali Toufique : A Simple Model of Power and Property Rights in the Inland Fisheries of Bangladesh.
81) M. Mahmud Khan (co-author) :
Designing a Health Insurance Programme for Rural Bangladesh: Lessons from the Co-operative Medical System of Taicang County, China.
82) BDS Volume XXV, March-June1997,
Nos. 1 & 2.
83) Kazi Ali Toufique : A Simple Model of Power and Property Rights in the Inland Fisheries of Bangladesh.
84) M. Mahmud Khan (co-author) :
Designing a Health Insurance Programme for Rural Bangladesh: Lessons from the Co-operative Medical System of Taicang County, China.
85) Farida C. Khan : A General Equilibrium
Application of Learning by Doing: Should Bangladesh Protect its Capital Goods Sector?
86) Md Abul Basher : Linkages and
Leakages : A Sectional Tracking in Bangladesh Economy.
87) Fahmida Akter Khatun : The Cost of
Particulate Air Population in Dhaka City.
88) Simeen Mahmud : Reproductive Change in Bangladesh and the Latent Demand Hypothesis: What is Evidence?
89) Mohammad S. Hasan : Money, Price
and Causality in Mainland China
90) M. Shahe Emran (co-author) : A Critical Review of the Econometric Modelling of Aggregate Imports of Bangladesh.
91) M. Kabir (co-author) : The Prospect for
Stabilisation of Bangladesh's Population: Alternative Scenarios.
92) CAF Dowlah : Crisis in Governance -
How Independent Is The Independent Review?
7. On-going Research Projects : Not Available.
8. Future Plan of Research : To conduct research particularly on general
economics, agriculture and rural development, industry and physical infrastructure, demography, human resource development and environmental issues.
9 Chief Researchers : 1. Mr. ABU AHMED ABDULLAH, Ex-Director General
Publication and Research Papers:
1) "The Class Bases of Nationalism -
Pakistan and Bangladesh", paper presented at the 1972 Bengal Studies Conference in Toronto and published in the conference volume.
2) "Land Reform and Agrarian Change in
Bangladesh", paper presented at the FAO Expert Consultation on land reform, Bangkok, December 1973; available (Cyclostyled) at BIDS; a revised version published in the BDS*, January 1976.
3) "Institution-building in Agriculture: Implicit
Social Theory in the First five Year Plan", paper presented at the annual conference of the Bangladesh Economic Association, 1974; published in the conference volume.
4) (Review Article) "The Success Story That Wasn't - Development Policy II: The Pakistan Experience", The Bangladesh Economic Reviews, Vol. I, No. 3 (July 1973); also published in Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 23, No. 4, (July 1975), under the title: "The Success Story That Wasn't": Pakistan and the DAS".
5) (With Richard Nations) "Agrarian
Development and IRDP in Bangladesh", BIDS May 1974 (Cyclostyled).
6) (With Mosharraf Hossain and Richard
Nations) "Issues in Agrarian Development and the IRDP", Appendix 1 to the SIDA/ILO Report on the IRDP, Dhaka, June 1974; revised version published in the BDS, April 1976, under the title: "Agrarian Structure and the IRDP: Preliminary Considerations".
7) Review of "Pakistan: failure in National
Integration", by Rounaq Jahan; in BDS, July 1974.
8) "Farm Size, Efficiency and the
Socioeconomics of Land Distribution - Comment" BDS, January 1976.
9) "Prerequisites and Consequences of the
Spread of the High-yielding Varieties of Rice: A Framework for Analysis", paper presented at BIDS seminar, April 1975 (mimeo).
10) Rural Institutions - A Development Perspective", paper presented at the Second Annual Conference of the Bangladesh Economic Association, March 1976 (Mimeo).
11) "Notes on Planning in a Peasant Economy", paper presented at the ESCAP/IRDP Workshop in Comilla, November 1976.
12) "Piecemeal Rural Development -
Possibilities and Limitations", paper
presented at DANIDA/CDR Workshop, Copenhagen, June 1977.
13) "Modes of Production and Agrarian Structure: an Exploratory Analysis", DERAP Working Paper No. 114, The Christian Michelsens Institute, Bergen, Norway, April 1978.
14) "Formulating a Viable Land Policy for
Bangladesh - What Do We Need to Know?, BDS, Autumn, 1978.
15) "Landlord and Rich Peasant Under
Permanent Settlement", BIDS, Dhaka and The Christian Michelsens Institute, Bergen, 1980 (Cyclostyled; published in The Calcutta Historical Studies, 1981).
16) "The Political Economy of Fertiliser
Pricing Policy", in Fertiliser Pricing Policy and Foodgrain Production Strategy in Bangladesh, Vol. II, and (The IFPRI-BIDS Report) Washington D.C.: IFPRI 1985.
17) "Distribution Aspects of Fertiliser
Pricing Policy" in ibid.
18) "Agricultural Credit and Fertiliser Use", in ibid.
19) "The Fertiliser Subsidy - Costs and
Returns:, The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XIII, Nos. 3-4 (1985).
20) Local Level Planning - Objectives,
Strategies, Scope and Rationale; Draft main Report submitted to The Planning Commission, 1985 (Cyclostyled).
21) (With K.A.S. Murshid), "The Distribution
of Benefits from The Public Food Distribution System", BIDS Research Report No. 60; BIDS Dhaka.
22) (With K.A.S. Murshid), "Inter-District Changes and Variations in Landlessness in Bangladesh", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XIV, No. 3.
23) "Bangladesh - A Case of Technological
Stagnation"; prepared for the UNU/WIDER Project on Technological Transformation and the Management of Change, October 1986.
24) Fertiliser Pricing and Distribution Policy
in Bangladesh: prepared for the Agriculture Sector Review, Compendium Volume IV; Dhaka.
25) "Foodgrain Pricing Policy:
Procurement, Sales, Imports and Public Stocks", forthcoming in Planning, Trade, and Rural Development: Essays in Honour of Nurul Islam (R. Sobhan and A.R. Khan, eds.); London, McMillan, 1989.
26) Social Development in Bangladesh
(with Rita Afsar, Atiur Rahman, and Binayak Sen); report prepared for ESCAP published as chapter in Comparative Country Studies on Social Development Situations, Trends and Policies, Vol. I, Un: New York, 1990.
27) "From Zero-sum Games to Armageddon" (Review of Jansen), Economic and Political Weekly, May 6, 1989.
28) Modernisation at Bay (with Rita Afsar,
Atiur Rahman and Binayak Sen), University Press Ltd., Dhaka 1992.
29) Chapter - "Managing Agricultural
Development: Urea Distribution and Pricing". CRISIS IN GOVERNANCE - A Review of Bangladesh's Development, 1997 (with Nigar Nargis), Edited by Prof. Rehman Sobhan, University Press Ltd.
2. Dr. Quazi Shahabuddin, Research
Director, General Economics Division
PUBLICATIONS:
1) Comparative Advantage in Bangladesh Agriculture, Report prepared in connection with the study, “Consequences of the UR Agreements for Bangladesh Agriculture”, for the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Bangladesh and funded by F.A.O
2) Agricultural Growth and Stagnation in
Bangladesh: A Review of Performance and Policies (jointly with Rushidan Islam Rahman) MAP Focus Studies Series (forthcoming) CIRDAP, Dhaka.
3) Independent Review of Bangladesh
Economy (1997), Chapter on Management of Water Resources in Bangladesh, Centre for Policy Dialogue, UPL, 1998.
4) "Medium and Long Term Projections of
Foodgrain Demand, Supply and Trade Balance in Bangladesh", (jointly with Sajjad Zohir), The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XXIII, Nos. 3 and 4, September - December, 1995.
5) "Critical Issues in Bangladesh
Agriculture: Policy Response and Unfinished Agenda" (jointly with Abu Abdullah), edited by M.G. Quibria, Oxford University Press, 1997.
6) "Public Intervention in Foodgrain
Markets in Bangladesh", Essays in Observance of 60th Birth Anniversary of Professor Rehman Sobhan, edited by Abu Abdullah and A. R. Khan, University Press Limited, Dhaka, 1996.
7) Independent Review of Bangladesh Development (1996) Chapter on Agriculture (jointly with Abu Abdullah) Centre for Policy Dialogue, UPL, 1997.
8) Independent Review of Bangladesh
Development (1995), Chapter on Agriculture (jointly with Abu Abdullah and M. Hasanullah), Centre for Policy Dialogue, University Press Limited, 1995.
9) Analysis of Markets as Conduits of
Macro-Micro Transmission in Bangladesh (jointly with Sajjad Zohir), MAP Focus Studies Series No. 4, CIRDAP, December 1994.
10) "A Framework for Analysis of Macro-
Micro Transmission Mechanism in Bangladesh: Some Preliminary Considerations", (jointly with M.K. Mujeri) Asian-Pacific Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 3, No. 1, December 1993.
11) "A Desegregated Model for Rice Price
Stabilisation in Bangladesh", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XX, No. 1, March 1992.
12) Peasant Behaviour Under Uncertainty -
- Decision Making Among Low-Income Farmers in Bangladesh, published by the author with a publication award from Winrock International, Dhaka, 1991.
13) "Pattern of Food Consumption in
Bangladesh -- An Analysis of Household Expenditure Survey Data", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XVII, No. 3, September, 1989.
14) "Efficiency, Share Tenancy and
Allocative Behaviour in Peasant Farming: A Safety-First Approach", (jointly with David Feeny) The Journal of Economic Development, Vol. 12, No. 1, June 1987.
15) "Interrelationships in the Public Foodgrain Distribution System in Bangladesh -- An Econometric Analysis", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XV, No. 1, March 1987.
16) "Factors Affecting Stocking Decisions
of Rice Traders in Dhaka City - Findings of a Sample Survey", The Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. X, No. 1, June, 1987.
17) "The Investment Analysis Model - An
Application to Water Resources Planning in Bangladesh", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XV, No. 3, September 1987.
18) "The Impact of Risk on Agricultural
Production Decisions - Tests of a Safety-First Model in Bangladesh", (jointly with David Butterfield) The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XIV, No. 3, September 1986.
19) "Uncertainty and Disaster - Avoidance
Behaviour in Peasant Farming: Evidence from Bangladesh", (jointly with Stuart Mestelman) Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4, July 1986.
20) "Peasant Behaviour Towards Risk and
Socio-Economic and Structural Characteristics of Farm Households in Bangladesh", (jointly with Stuart Mestelman and David Feeny) Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 38 (1986).
21) "Testing of Cobb-Douglas Myths - An
Analysis with Desegregated Production Functions in Bangladesh Agriculture", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XIII, No. 1, March 1985.
22) "Measurement of Crop Risk in Four
Selected Districts in Bangladesh", The Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural
Economics, Vol. VII, No. 1, December 1984.
23) "Uncertainty and Decision-Making
Behaviour in Peasant Farming -- A Review", The Journal of Management Business and Economics. Vol. X, No. 3, July 1984.
24) "Yield and Price Risk of Major Crops in
Bangladesh -- An Econometric Analysis", The Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. VI, No. 1 and 2, 1983.
25) "Farmer's Crop Growing Decisions
Under Uncertainty: A Safety-First Approach", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Autumn, 1982, Vol. X, No. 3.
26) "Estimation of Regional Production
Function: An Application to Survey Data in Bangladesh Agriculture", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Monsoon, 1981, Vol. IX, No. 3.
27) "Some Comments on Factors Affecting
the Use of Fertilisers in Bangladesh", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Monsoon 1980, Vol. III, No. 3.
0 28) "Government Development Budget in
Bangladesh: Review of Performance and Evaluation of Policies", The Journal of Management Business and Economics, January, 1977 Vol. III, No. 1.
3. Dr. K.A.S. Murshid, Research Director &
Division Chief, General Economics Division.
Publications:
1) Floods and Food Crises: in Floud, J. (ed.) ESSAYS IN FAMINE AND SOCIETY, Vikas: New Delhi (forthcoming).
2) Trade Liberalisation and Food Security - The Evolution and Conduct of the Cross-Border Trade in Rice (A Bangladesh Perspective), Working Paper, BIDS/IFPRI-FMRSP, Dhaka (Aug. 1999).
3) Food Security in an Asian Transitional Economy - The Cambodian Experience, CDRI/UNRISD, Phnom-Penh-Geneva, 1998 (December)
4) “Generalised Morality and the Problem of Transition to an Impersonal Exchange Regime - A Response to Platteau With Insights from the Bangladesh Rice Market, Journal of Development Studies, June, 1997, London.
5) The Social Impact of DTWs on Landless Owners, Research Report No. 140, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka, 1995.
6) “Economic Returns to Social Power: Merchants’ Finance and Interlinkage in the Grain Markets of Bangladesh”, World Development, 22, 7, July, 1994), co-author.
7) Human Resources Development And Poverty Alleviation, Centre for Integrated Rural Development in the Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP), Dhaka, December, 1994.
8) `Spatial Arbitrage and Market Integration: Fish Markets in Bangladesh’, presented at the Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Harare, Zimbabwe, August 21-29, 1994.
9) `Financing the Waste Paper Trade’, in Islam et al (ed.) Small Firms Informally Financed, World Bank Discussion Paper 253, Washington, 1994.
10) `Understanding “Traditional” Markets: The Problem of Transition’, Paper presented at the Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, Nov.10, 1994.
11) Poverty Alleviation and Directed Credit: A Review of NGO Credit Programmes in Bangladesh, IFAD, Rome, 1994.
12) “Finance of Grain Trade in a Backward Agriculture” in C.de Alcantara (ed) Real Markets: Social and Political Issues of Food Policy Reforms, Frank Cass, London, 1993.
13) Floods and Food Crises: The Analytic of Survival, in Abed and Hussain (ed) Coping in Bangladesh, University Press Ltd., Dhaka, 1992.
14) “Financial Structure and Prices in a Backward Agrarian Market” in BANGLADESH DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, (co-author), Autumn, 1992
15) Informal Credit in Bangladesh
Agriculture: Bane of Boon ? in AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, (Journal of the International Agricultural Economics Association) 1992; also in Bellamy and Greenshields (ed) Sustainable Agricultural Development: The Role of International Co-operation, Dartmouth Publishing House, 1992.
16) The Finance Of Forced And Free Markets-Merchants’ Capital In Bangladesh Grain Trade, Development Policy and Practice Working Paper, The Open University, U.K.
17) Rural Informal Financial Markets In Bangladesh, An Overview Research Report No. 121 BIDS (co-author).
18) “The Finance of Trade and Agriculture in a Backward Area”, in THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF
DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1992.
19) Price Instability and Grain Markets: Do Traders Speculate SAMIKHYA, BIDS Journal, (1992).
20) Foodgrain Markets and Informal Credit, SAMIKHYA, BIDS Journal (1990).
21) Role of the Public Sector In Bangladesh Agriculture, FAO report (1992), Rome.
22) A Review Of Prices And Subsidies For Agriculture in Botswana (co-author), A Report Submitted to the Government of Botswana, February, 1989.
23) Short Term Price De-Stabilisation in BANGLADESH FOODGRAIN MARKETS, BIDS, July, 1989.
24) “Public sector Employment in Bangladesh” in Edgren, G (ed.) A GROWING SECTOR, ILO/ARTEP, New Delhi, India, May, 1988 (co-author).
25) “Micro-Level Adjustments to Foodgrain Shortages”, in Bangladesh Development Studies, XV No. 2, 1987.
26) "The Distribution Of Benefits From The Public Food Distribution System In Bangladesh" (co-author), BIDS Research Report No. 60, June, 1987.
27) “Weather, Technology and Instability in Cereal Production”, in Bangladesh Development Studies, XV No. 1, 1987.
28) "Progress In Agrarian Reform And Rural Development In Bangladesh", prepared for WCARRD, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka, 1987.
29) “Bangladesh- Economy” in the Far East and Australasia, Libra Publications, London, 1987.
30) "A Mid Term Review Of The Rural
Poor Programme In Bangladesh", CIDA, Dhaka, Bangladesh June, 1986.
31) “Inter-Regional Variation in the Change in Landlessness - A District Level Analysis” (co-author) Bangladesh Development Studies, XIV, No. 3, 1986.
32) “Nature, Levels and Trend in Instability in Foodgrain Production”, in Bangladesh Development Studies, XIV, No. 2, 1986.
33) “Is there a Structural Constraint to Capacity Utilisation of Deep Tubewells for Irrigation ?” in Bangladesh Development Studies, XIII, Nos. 3,4,1985.
34) “Policy Responses to Food Shortages”, JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, Bangladesh Economic Association, No. 4, 1985.
35) A Socio-Economic Evaluation Of Deep Tubewells For Irrigation, A BIDS Report, 1985.
36) “Modernisation and Technology in
Bangladesh: The Case of Deep Tubewells” in Ngo Manh-lan (ed) Unreal Growth: Critical Studies on Asian Development, vol. 2, 1984, Hindustan Publishing: New Delhi
37) “Bangladesh: Water Supply and
Sanitation” in Assignment Children, No. 45/46, 1979. “WATER & SANITATION IN BANGLADESH” (co-author).
4. Dr. Mahmudul Alam, Senior Research
Fellow
Publications
1) `Capacity-utilisation of Deep Tubewell
Irrigation in Comilla Kotwali Thana: A Time-series Analysis', in the Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4, October (1975).
2) `Level and Composition of Capital in
Irrigated Agriculture of Bangladesh: Evidence from Tubewell Irrigated Villages of Comilla and Rajshahi', Bangladesh Development Studies, Volume XII, Number 4, (December 1984).`Non-Government Secondary Schools in rural Bangladesh: Performance and School-level Determinants', Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XX, NO. 4, (1992).
3) Performance of Secondary Education
Sub-sector in Bangladesh, 1981-90, Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XXII, March, 1994, No. 1.
4) Capacity-utilisation of Low-lift Pump
Irrigation in Bangladesh, Research Report (New series) # 17, BIDS, 1974.
5) Socio-economic Impact of IRD: Case-
study of Noakhali IRDP, Research Report (New) # 55, BIDS, (1985).
6) Basic Educational Achievement in
Rural Bangladesh: Level, Pattern and Socio-economic Determinants, Research Report # 145 BIDS, Dhaka, (1997).
7) Capital Accumulation and Agrarian
Structure In Bangladesh, A Study on Tubewell-irrigates villages of Rajshahi and Comilla, Centre for Social Studies, University of Dhaka, Dhaka,1982.
8) "Efficiency of Primary Education in
Bangladesh" in Getting Started : Universalising Quality of Primary Education in Bangladesh, (Eds.) A.K. Jalaluddin and A. Mustaque R. Chowdhury, University Press Ltd. Dhaka. 1997 (with Dr. Ananya Raihan).
9) 'Role of Informal Service Sector in
Urban Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh' in Role of the Informal Service Sector in Urban Poverty Alleviation (with Anwara Begum), UNESCAP, 1996, Bangkok.
10) Bangladesh: Assessing Basic Learning
Skills (with Vincent Greany and Shahidur R. Khandaker), Asia Technical Division, World Bank, Washington D.C. August, , published as a book by University Press Ltd., Dhaka, 1997.
11) Socio-economic Impact of Manual
Irrigation Pump (MIP)-based Agriculture in Bangladesh, (with M. Salimullah) Research Report # 144 by BIDS, 1997.
12) Basic Education and Life-skill at Non-
formal Primary level in Bangladesh. An evaluation of CMES's basic education system, (with M. Abdur Rab), BIDS, Research Report # 131 (1991).
13) “A Review of Primary Educational
Development in Bangladesh”, Bangladesh Education Watch Report 1998. (Chapter 2) Co-autorwith M. Hedayet Hossain, CAMPE, Dhaka, July 1999.
14) Secondary and Higher Secondary
Education Sub-sector in Bangladesh: Its growth and Role of the State: A Time-series Analysis of 1981-90 General Education Project, GOB, (1992), DERAP Working Paper # D
1992: 10, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen, Norway, 1992.
15) "Determinants and Impact of Basic
Skill Attainment: The Role of School and Targeted Credit Programs in Bangladesh" (with Shahidur R. Khandaker and Vincent Greany), in Credit Programs for The Poor: Household and Intrahouseholds Impacts and Program.
16) Sustainability. Vol. 1 (eds.) Muhammad
Abdul Latif et. al. by published as a Conference Volume (March 22,1997) Education and Social Policy Department, World Bank, Washington, D.C., and BIDS ,Dhaka (1997).
17) Institutional Development in the
Primary Education sub-sector for Sustainable Development in Bangladesh (with Steinar Askvik, University of Bergen, Norway), BIDS, Dhaka, October, 1997, being Published by UPL, Dhaka as a Seminar Volume.
5. Dr. M. A. Mannan, Senior Research
Fellow & Division Chief, Population Studies Division.
Publications :
1) “Preference for Son, Desire for Additional Children and Contraceptive Use in Bangladesh:, The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XVI, No. 3, 1988.
2) “Society, Economy Family and Fertility
in Bangladesh”, The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XVII, No. 3, 1989.
3) “Infant Mortality and Fertility – A case
study of some villages in Bangladesh”, Jahangir Nagar Economic Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1986.
4) “Sexual Division of Labour and Son Preference in Rural Bangladesh”, Demography India, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1988.
5) Status of Women in Bangladesh:
Equality of Rights – Theory and Practice, -- BIDS Research Report, No. 113.
6) “Food, Nutrition and Agriculture in
Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects” – Journal of Economic Co-operation among Islamic Countries, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1993.
7) Maternal and Child Health in
Bangladesh: Evidence from Field Data, BIDS Research Report, No. 117.
8) Interactions between Infant Mortality
and Fertility: A Case Study of Rural Bangladesh, BIDS Research Report, No. 118.
9) Child Work and Family Life in South
Asia, LAPTAP Working Paper No. 2, ILO, Bangkok, 1990.
10) “Women and Children in Bangladesh:
A Study in Nutritional and Health Profile and Their Environmental Correlates” – BIDS – CMI special publication, 1998 (forthcoming).
11) “Maternal and Child Health and
Nutrition and Sanitation in Bangladesh: Research Monograph, No. 14, BIDS, 1997.
12) “Maternal and Child Mortality: A Case
Study of Bangladesh (in Bengali) Unnayan Samikha, Vol. XIII, 1991.
13) “Human Development Index and
Gender Disparity: A Review in the Context of Bangladesh (in Bengali)” Unnayan Samikha, Vol. XV, 1998.
6. Dr. Atiur Rahman, Senior Research Fellow & Division Chief, Human Resource Division
Publication
1) 'People's Perception and Response to
Floodings: The Bangladesh Experience', Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Vol. 4, No. 4, December, 1996.
2) Beel Dakatia: Environmental
Consequen-ces of a Development Disaster (Book), (July, 1994), UPL, Dhaka.
3) Five Chapters in the book titled The
Grameen Bank: Poverty Relief in Bangladesh edited by ANM Wahid (1993), West View Press, Colarado, USA.
4) 'The Grameen Bank and the Changing
Patron - Client Relationship in Bangladesh', a paper published in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol. 22, no. 3 (1992).
5) `Alleviation of Poverty: the Replicability
of Grameen Bank Model', in South Asia Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 1988, Jawharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
6) 'Factors Contributing to the Excellent
Recovery performance of Grameen Bank' a paper presented at the international workshop on Issues on Loan Recovery jointly organised by Ohio State University and Bangladesh Bank, 1987, published in the Journal of Development and Administrative Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, December, 1987, CEDA, Kathmandu, Nepal.
7) `Rural Development from Below:
Lessons Learned from Grameen Bank Experience in Bangladesh' in the Journal of Socio-Economics, vol. 25, no. 2 (1996), Jai Press, USA.
8) `Demand Constraints and the Future
Viability of Grameen Bank Credit Programme: An Econometric Study of the Expenditure Pattern of Rural Households', published in the Bangladesh Development Studies, vol. XVI, no. 2, June, 1988.
9) `Management System of Grameen
Bank: Organisation, Monitoring and Training Aspects', WP 18, GBEP, BIDS, January, 1988.
10) `Participative Management Style of
Grameen Bank', in Bank Parikrama, the Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management, Special Issue, 1987.
11) Demand and Marketing Aspects of Grameen Bank (1986), University Press Ltd., Dhaka (1986).
12) `Consciousness Raising Efforts of
Grameen Bank', working paper No. 3, GBEP, BIDS.
13) `The State, Local Power Brokers and
Rural Development in Bangladesh: A Study of the Selected Upazila Chairman', in Sociology and Development (1989), published by Bangladesh Sociological Association.
14) `Interlined Transactions in Rural
Markets in Bangladesh', a paper published in Samikhya, BIDS Journal (1993).
15) `Empowerment and Development:
Towards Livelihood Security', a paper presented at the special seminar on Fourth Year Plan of Bangladesh, organised by Bangladesh Economic Association, October, 1990, also published in a special issue of Political Economy, the Journal of BEA, 1990.
16) `Rural Power Structure: A Study of the
UP leaders in Bangladesh', in Journal
of Social Studies, no. 4, July, 1989, Centre for Social Studies (CSS), University of Dhaka.
17) `Missing Dimensions of Poverty:
Issues of Vulnerability and Insecurity', seminar paper presented in an international conference organised by BIISS, Dhaka, December, 1989; also published as a chapter of a book published by BIIS.
18) `Impact of Grameen Bank on the Rural
Power Structure', BIDS research report no. 62, 1987.
19) `Migration and Food Security: A
Case Study of Bangladesh', in GRASSROOTS, volume I, issue II, October-December, 1991, ADAB.
20) Impact of Grameen Bank on the
Nutritional Status of the Rural Poor', working paper No. 7, GBEP, BIDS, December, 1987. Also published as BIDS research report no. 108, September, 1989.
21) `Food Procurement and Distribution
System in Rural Bangladesh: An Empirical Study with Equity Consideration', in The Journal of Social Studies, no. 15, January, 1992, CSS, University of Dhaka.
22) Political Economy of South Asian
Regional Co-operation (1985), UPL, Dhaka/sterling Publishers, New Delhi.
23) Agrarian Question (1989) (in Bangla),
(Book) UPL, Dhaka. 24) Peasants and Classes: A Study in
Differentiation in Bangladesh (1986), Zed Books, London/Oxford University Press, Delhi/UPL, Dhaka.
25) `Small Farmers are Being
Prolatarianized A Note on
Persistence and Polarization' by Bhaduri et.al., in The Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 15 no. 2, January, 1988, London.
26) `Differentiation of the Peasantry in
Bangladesh: 1950s to 1980s', in Social Scientist, nos. 162-163, November-December, 1986, New Delhi.
27) `Agricultural Taxation in Bangladesh',
(jointly with Hossain, M. and M.M. Akash), BIDS research report no. 41, 1986.
28) `Rural Proletarianization: Empirical
Evidence from Two Villages of Bangladesh", in the Journal of Social Studies, no. 23, January, 1984, CSS, University of Dhaka.
29) `The State and the Peasantry: The
Bangladesh Case', DERAP paper no. A304, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, October.
30) `Contributions of Education in
Economic Development: Lessons for Bangladesh from Asian Countries’: Atowar Hossain Memorial Lecture, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1993; also published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society (1994).
31) `Dual Role to Tradition in Social
Mobilization: The Grameen Bank and Rural Poor Women in Bangladesh', presented in the Bengal Conference at Oshakasaka, Winsconsin (1986) and published by Winsconsin University, USA.
32) `Land Concentration and
Dispossession in Two Villages of Bangladesh', in Bangladesh Development Studies, vol. X, no. 2, Spring 1981, Dhaka.
Books in English
33) Budget and the Poor, UPL, Dhaka
(forthcoming) (lead author). 34) Fighting Poverty: Emerging
Perspectives – South Asia Poverty Monitor (with Binayek Sen), UNDP, NY (forthcoming).
35) Beel Dakatia: The Environmental
Consequences of a Development Disaster, UPL, Dhaka (1995).
36) Demand and Marketing Aspects of
Grameen Bank: A closer Look, University Press Ltd, 1986 (1st edition).
37) Political Economy of SAARC UPL,
Dhaka (1986). 38) Peasants and Classes: A Study in
Differentiation in Bangladesh, Oxford University Press, Delhi/Zed Books, London/UPL, Dhaka (1986).
39) Rural Power Structre: A study of the
UP Leaders in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Books International, 1981.
Books in Bangla
40) Arek Bangladesh (Another
Bangladesh), Prachya Bidya Prokashoni , Dhaka (1998).
41) Asohojoger Dinguli: Muktijudheyer
Prostuti Parba (Days of Non-cooperation: The prepatory phase of the War of Liberation War) Shahitya Prokash, Dhaka (1998).
42) Bhasher Lorai Banchar Lorai (The
struggle for the Language and life) Nowroz Kitbostan, Dhaka (1997).
43) Muktijodheyer Manush Muktijodheyer Sapna (Freedom Fighters and their Dreams) Shahitya Prokash (1997).
44) Goriber Budget Bhabna O Doridrya
Bimochon (The Poor’s Perception of Budget and Poverty Alleviation), Proshika, (1996).
45) Bangladesh Unnayener Sangram
(The Struggle for Development in Bangladesh) Probortok Prokashoni, Dhaka (1991).
46) Bhasha Andolon: Ongshograhan
Karither Shreni Obosthyan (Language Movement: Class Background of the Participant) UPL, Dhaka (head author). (1990).
47) Bhasha Andolon: Poriprekhsyt O
Bichar (Language Movement: Perspective and Analysis) UPL, Dhaka (Lead author). (1990).
48) Bhasha Andolon: Arthanoitik
Potobhumi (Language Movement: Economic Perspective) UPL, Dhaka (lead author). (1990).
49) Krishi Proshno: Oitihashik Rush
Bitorka Ebong Tritio Bishey Tar Prashongikota (Agrarian Question: The historic Russian Debate and its relevance for the Third World) UPL, Dhaka (1989).
50) SAARC: Rajnoitic Arthaniti (Political
Economy of SAARC) UPL, Dhaka (1986).
7. Simeen Mahmud, Senior Research Fellow
Publications:
1) "A method of estimating adult mortality
trends from widowhood and death distribution data", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Winter 1979.
2) "Returns to family size - who gains from
high fertility?" (with J. McIntosh), Population Studies, London School of Economics, London, Vol. 34, No. 3, November 1980.
3) "Validation of mother's reports of
children's ages in pregnancy history interviews in Matlab, Bangladesh" (with S. Becker), Proceedings of the IUSSP XIX General Conference, Manila, December 1981.
4) "Validation study of pregnancy histories
and indirect techniques of fertility and mortality estimation in Matlab, Bangladesh: Methods and study of possible contamination", ICDDR,B Working Paper No. 25, Dhaka April 1982.
5) "A Validation study of backward and
forward pregnancy histories in Matlab, Bangladesh" (with S. Becker), World Fertility Survey Scientific Report Series No. 52, October 1984.
6) "Error patterns in children's age reports in retrospective sample surveys" (with S. Becker), The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 12, No. 4, 1984.
7) "The age-sex aspects of the food and
nutrition problem in rural Bangladesh" (with W. Mahmud), ILO, World Employment Programme, Research Working Paper, Geneva, August 1985.
8) "Gender Aspects of Nutrition and
Mortality among children in rural Bangladesh", BIDS Research Report No. 63, September 1987.
9) "A validation of indirect techniques of
fertility and mortality estimation in Matlab, Bangladesh", (with S. Becker), BIDS Research Report No. 64, September 1987.
10) "A critical review of the poverty situation in Bangladesh in the Eighties, Vol. I and II" (with Atiq Rahman and Trina Huq), BIDS Research Report, Nos. 66 and 67, May 1988.
11) "Exploring the relationship between
women's work, status and fertility in Bangladesh", Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 16, December 1988.
12) "Women's Roles in Agriculture: Present
Trends and Potentials for Growth", (with C. Safilios-Rothschild) Monograph prepared for the Agriculture Sector Review, UNDP and Government of Bangladesh, March 1989.
13) "Women and Employment in
Bangladesh: Trends and Issues" (with S. Hamid) BIDS Research Report, No. 127, October 1990.
14) "Current Contraception among
Programme Beneficiaries" Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 19, September 1991.
15) "Women and Structural Adjustment: The
Case of Bangladesh", (with Wahiduddin Mahmud) in Women and Structural Adjustment: Selected Case Studies for a Commonwealth Group of Experts, Commonwealth Economic Papers No.22, Economic Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, October 1991.
16) "Female Domestic Status as a Key
Indicator of Fertility Behaviour in Rural Bangladesh" in Families in Transition, the Women and Families in Development Committee publication for the 1992 International Federation for Home Economics Congress held in Hannover, July 1992.
17) "Women's work in the family economy" in
H.Hossain, C.P.Dodge and F.H.Abed
edited From Crisis to Development: Coping with Disasters in Bangladesh, University Press Limited, Dhaka, 1992.
18) "Women's status, empowerment and
reproductive outcomes", in Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment, and Rights, edited by Gita Sen, Adrienne Germain and Lincoln Chen, Harvard Series on Population and International Health, Harvard University Press, 1994.
19) "The Gender Dimensions in Human
Resource Development" in Human Resource Development and Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh, Focus Study No.2, Monitoring Adjustment and Poverty in Bangladesh, Centre for Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific, Dkaka, Bangladesh, December 1994.
20) Women and water pumps in
Bangladesh: The impact of participation in irrigation groups on women's status, (with Barbara van Koppen), Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., London, U.K., 1996.
21) "The Role of Women's Employment
Programmes in Influencing Fertility Regulation in Rural Bangladesh" Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 22, Nos.2&3, 1994.
22) "From women's status to empowerment:
The shift in population policy dialogue", Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1994.
23) "Assessing change in women's lives: A
conceptual framework", (with Marty Chen), Working Paper 2, BRAC-ICDDR,B Joint Research Project, BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 1995.
24) "The Squatters of Dhaka City: Dynamism in the life of Agargoan Suatters", (co-author) UPL, Dhaka, 1996.
25) "Women's work in urban
Bangladesh: Is there an economic rationale?", Development and Change, Vol.28, No.2, April 1997.
26) "The structural adjustment programme in
Bangladesh: Implications for women in poverty", Women and Poverty, Women For Women, Dhaka, January 1997.
8. Sharifa Begum, Senior Research Fellow.
1) "Birth and Death Rates in Bangladesh,
1951-74" Bangladesh Development Studies (BDS) Vol. 7(2), 1979.
2) "The Defectiveness of the 1974
Population Census of Bangladesh"; Bangladesh Development Studies Vol.7(3), 1979 (Joint author A. Miranda).
3) "Data from the 1974 Population Census:
A Preliminary Analysis"; Research Report Series No.26, BIDS, 1978.
4) "Infant Mortality in Bangladesh: Trends
and Differentials"; Bangladesh Development Studies; Vol.11(4), 1983.
5) "Fertility Levels and Trends in Four
Micro-regions of Bangladesh", proceedings of a National Seminar on "Recent Trends in Fertility and Mortality" Population and Development Planning Unit, Planning Commission, Dhaka, 1984 (Joint author Dr. M.R. Khan).
6) "Status of Primary Health Care in
Bangladesh Specially in the Rural Areas"; M.R. Khan (ed.) "Evaluation of Primary Health Care and Family Planning Facilities and Their Limitations in the Rural Area"; Research Monograph No.7; BIDS, 1988.
7) "Population Birth, Death and Growth Rates in Bangladesh: Census Estimates"; Bangladesh Development Studies; Vol.18, No.2, 1990.
8) "Status of Health and Utilisation of Health
Care Services in Bangladesh"; in M.R.Khan (ed.) Bangladesh Health Finance and Expenditure Study; Research Monograph No.14, BIDS; 1997.
9) "Reducing Mortality in Bangladesh";
Proceeding of the SAARC Conference on Mother and Child Health; New Delhi, 1986.
10) "Women's Health and Utilisation of Health
Care Services in Rural Areas of Bangladesh"; M.A. Mabud and Q.M Rahman (eds.); Population Growth and Rural Development; Organisation for Population and Development; Dhaka; 1990.
11) "Health Dimension of Poverty"; in Hossain
Z. Rahman et.al (ed.) Dynamics of Rural Poverty: 1987-95; University Press Limited; Dhaka, 1997(forthcoming).
12) "Family Planning Program Performance in
Bangladesh: A Method Specific Overview and Future Prospect"; Andrew Kantner et.al (eds.); Demographic and Health Survey 1993/94: Expanded Analysis; National Institute of Population Research and Training, Dhaka, and East-West Centre, Hawaii, 1997.
13) "Upward Mobility of Women Workers in the
Garment Industry of Bangladesh"; BIDS Research Report Number 153; BIDS; Dhaka; 1997. (Joint author, Dr. P. Paul-Majumder)
14) "Methodology for Identifying the Poorest at
Local Level"; WHO Macroeconomics, Health and Development, No 27; Geneva; 1998; (joint author Dr. Binayak Sen).
15) "Not Quite, Not Enough: Financial Allocation and the Distribution of Resources in the Health Sector"; 1998; (forthcoming as a Research Report of BIDS)(joint author Dr.Binayak Sen).
8. Dr. M.A. Latif, Senior Research Fellow & Division Chief, IPID
Publications:
1) "Landownership and Fertility in Two Areas
of Bangladesh", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. V, No.2, 1977.
2) Sericulture Industry in Bangladesh:
Analysis of Production Performance, Constraints and Growth Potentials, Research Monograph No.10, BIDS, 1988 (with Z. Bakht and D. Bhattacharya).
3) Economics of Coir Industry in Bangladesh:
A Case Study, Working Paper No.5, BIDS, 1988 (with M.Rahman).
4) Profile of Rural Industries in Bangladesh,
1978, Research Report No.87, BIDS, 1988 (with Q.K. Ahmad, Z. Bakht, M.U. Ahmad and N.C. Deb).
5) The Role of Public Policy in the Growth of
the Bangladesh Handloom Industry: 1947-87, Research Report No. 82, BIDS, 1988.
6) "Towards an Estimation of Cloth Supply in
Bangladesh: 1955/56-86/87", The Bangladesh Development Studies (Special Issue), Vol.XVII, Nos.1 & 2, 1989.
7) Towards Technological Transition in the
Bangladesh Handloom Industry: A Project Proposal on Replacement of Ordinary Fly-shuttle Loom by Chittaranjan Loom, Research Report No.88, BIDS, 1988.
8) "Resource Allocation in Bangladesh
Handloom Industry: An Application of Production Function Using Cross-section
Data", The Bangladesh Development Studies (Special Issue), Vol.XVII, Nos.1 & 2, 1989 (with N. Chowdhury).
9) Growth and Performance of the Fertiliser
industry in Bangladesh: 1961/62-87/88, Research Report No. 98, BIDS, 1989 (with A.H. Mondal).
10) "Production Performance in the Fertiliser
Industry and Procurement and Distribution of Fertiliser in Bangladesh, in Compendium, Vol.IV, Agriculture Sector Review, UNDP, Dhaka, 1989 (with A.H. Mondal).
11) Towards Understanding the Structural
Adaptations within the Bangladesh Handloom Industry: 1978-87, Research Monograph No.12, BIDS, 1990 (with N. Chowdhury).
12) "Growth and Structural Changes in the
Bangladesh Handloom Industry: 1947-87", in Bangla, The Bangladesh Unnayan Samiksha, Vol.VI, No., 1396 (Bangla).
13) "Programme Impact on Current
Contraception in Bangladesh", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XXII, No. 1, 1994.
14) Handloom Industry of Bangladesh: 1947-
90, University Press Ltd., Dhaka, 1997.
15) The Role of Family Planning and Targeted Credit Programs in Demographic Change in Bangladesh, World Bank Discussion Paper No. 337 (with Shahid Khandker), 1996.
16) Credit Programs for the Poor: Household
and Intrahousehold Impact and Program Sustainability, Proceedings of the Workshop held in Dhaka, 19-21 March 1995, Volume-II, Edited with Shahidur R. Khandker and Zahed H. Khan, published jointly by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies and the World Bank, 1996.
17) “Credit Programs for the Poor and
Reproductive Behaviour in Low Income Countries: Are the Reported Causal Relationships the Result of Heterogeneity Bias?”, The Demography, Vol. 36, No. 1, February 1999 (with Mark M Pitt, Shahid Khandker & Signe-Mary Anne).
9) Dr. Sajjad Zohir, Senior Research Fellow
Publications:
1) Analysis of Markets as Conduits of
Macro-Micro
2) Transmission in Bangladesh, MAP Focus Study 4, CIDRAP, Dhaka, December.
3) Agricultural Growth through Crop
Diversification in Bangladesh, Working Paper on Food Policy in Bangladesh # 7, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
4) “Wheat Market in Bangladesh: the case
of differentiated products”, The Bangladesh Development Studies, forthcoming.
5) “Medium and Long-Term Projections of
Foodgrain Demand, Supply and Trade Balance in Bangladesh”, The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XXIII, Nos. 3 & 4, September-December.
6) "Natural Resources Accounting for
Sustainable Development", Asia-Pacific Development Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, December.
7) "Editor’s Introduction", The Bangladesh
Development Studies, Vol. XXI, September 1993.
8) "Problems and Prospects of Crop
Diversifi-cation in Bangladesh", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XXI, September 1993.
9) "Trade Review of Bangkok Agreement 1988-92", ST/ESCAP/1409, United Nations, New York.
10) "Zoning of Bangladesh - an exercise
based on existing cropping practices", The Bangladesh Development Studies, June 1993.
11) "Impact of Low Export Prices of Jute at Farm Level in Bangladesh", Research Report No. 106, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka.
12) "Rural Credit Market in Noakhali District",
Research Report No. 106, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka.
13) "Wage and Labour Market in Agriculture:
Some Comments", The Bangladesh Development Studies.
14) "Output Sharing as a Form of Wage
Payment during Harvest", The Bangladesh Development Studies.
15) "Determination of Rental Share in a Land-
Surplus Economy, The Bangladesh Development Studies.
16) News letter on Monitoring and Evaluation
of Microcredit Programs, Issue 2. 17) News letter on Monitoring and Evaluation
of Microcredit Programs, Issue 1. 18) Low Rice Prices: Is there a Reason for
Concern?, Daily Star, a national daily newspaper in Bangladesh.
19) Salt Iodination in Bangladesh - Estimates
on Incremental Costs, Staff Reference Series: 1/93, UNICEF, Dhaka.
20) "Effort, Labour days and Labourer :
proposal on an alternative approach to the economic analyses of labour markets (in Bangla), Bangladesh Unnayan Samikhya, vol. 6.
21) "A discourse on research methodology"
(in Bangla), Bangladesh Unnayan Samikhya, vol. 3.
22) "Agricultural Diversification: strategic
factors for growth”, in Coming out of the Shadow of Famine: Evolving Food Market and Food
Policy in Bangladesh, forthcoming, John Hopkins University.
23) "Prospects of Rice Exports in
Bangladesh”, in Coming out of the Shadow of Famine: Evolving Food Market and Food Policy in Bangladesh, forthcoming, Johns Hopkins University.
24) "Bangladesh's Food for Work Program
and Alternatives to Improve Food Security", in Employment for Poverty Alleviation and Food Security, ed. J. Von Braun, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
25) "Agriculture and Food Policies in
Bangladesh and Prospects of Self-sufficiency in Rice Production", in Development Strategies for Bangladesh, University Press Limited, Dhaka.
26) "Land and Water Use in Rural Setting in
Bangladesh: Impact on Environment", in People, Development and Environment: complex inter linkages in Bangladesh, proceedings of a national symposium held in Dhaka, IUCN.
10. Dr. Binayak Sen, Senior Research
Fellow.
1) Combating Deprivations and Inequality: South Asia Poverty Monitor 1999, UNDP, New York, August 1999, forthcoming (with Atiur Rahman). Based on country-specific reports and multidimensional approach supported by extensive statistical materials including insights drawn from participatory
research, the book analyses the various aspects of deprivations and inequality in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with special focus on rethinking conventional policies for anti-poverty.
2) "Changes in Poverty in a Cross-section of
Countries" in Abu Abdullah and Azizur Rahman Khan (Ed.), State, Market and Development. Essays in Honour of Rehman Sobhan, University Press Ltd, 1996, pp. 255-285.
3) Poverty, Inequality and Growth, ESP Discussion Paper Series No. 70, Education and Social Policy Department, World Bank, Washington, D.C., June 1995 (with Lionel Demery and Tara Vishwanath).
4) Social Dimensions of Adjustment. World
Bank Experience, 1980-93, World Bank Operations Evaluation Study, World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1996, 218p (with Carl Jayarajah and William Branson). Based on critical review of the poverty reduction experience of over 40 countries, this major OED study represents further contribution to the literature on adjustment and poverty. The details of the book may be obtained from the website http://www.amazon.com
5) "Monitoring Adjustment and Urban Poverty
in Bangladesh: Issues, Dimensions, Tendencies". In: Monitoring Adjustment and Poverty in Bangladesh. Report on the Framework Project, CIRDAP Study Series No. 160, Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific, Dhaka, 1993, pp. 253-313 (with Quazi Towfiqul Islam).
6) "When Method Matters: Monitoring Poverty
in Bangladesh", Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 44, No. 4, July 1996, pp. 761-792 (with Martin Ravallion).
7) Methodology for Identifying the Poorest at
Local Level, Technical Paper No. 27, "Macroeconomics, Health and
Development" Series, World Health Organisation, Geneva, February 1998 (with Sharifa Begum).
8) "Growth and Redistribution Components of
Changes in Poverty Measures: A Decomposition Exercise for Rural Bangladesh in the 1980s", Farm Economy, Journal of Bangladesh Agricultural Economists' Association, Vol. 9, 1993, pp. 59-65.
9) "Rural Poverty in Bangladesh: Trends and
Determinants", Asian Development Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1992, pp. 1-34 (with Mahabub Hossain).
10) "Urban Poverty in Bangladesh: Trends, Determinants and Policy Issues", Asian Development Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 1994, pp. 1-31 (with Wahiduddin Mahmud, Nasreen Khundker and Monawar Uddin Ahmed).
11) "Rural Poverty Trends, 1963/64 to
1989/90" In: Hossain Zillur Rahman and Mahabub Hossain (Ed.), Rethinking Rural Poverty: Bangladesh as a Case Study, SAGE Publications: New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London, 1995, Chapter 3, pp. 39-56.
12) "Selected Living Standard Indicators" In:
Hossain Zillur Rahman and Mahabub Hossain (Ed.), ibid., SAGE Publications: New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London, 1995, Chapter 6, pp. 99-112.
13) "The Poor and the Poorest" In: Hossain
Zillur Rahman and Mahabub Hossain (Ed.), ibid., SAGE Publications: New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London, 1995, Chapter 10, pp. 170-176.
14) "Income-Earning Environment of the Poor:
Aspects of Dislocation, Adjustment and Mobility" In: Hossain Zillur Rahman and Mahabub Hossain (Ed.), ibid., SAGE Publications: New Delhi/Thousand
Oaks/London, 1995, Chapter 12, pp. 193-220.
15) "Determinants of Poverty" In: Hossain
Zillur Rahman and Mahabub Hossain (Ed.), ibid.
16) SAGE Publications: New Delhi/Thousand
Oaks/London, 1995, Chapter 15, pp. 257-273 (with Mahabub Hossain).
17) "Bangladesh" In: M.G. Quibria (Ed.), Rural
Poverty in Developing Asia, Vol. 1, Asian Development Bank, Manila, 1994, pp. 75-190 (with Mahabub Hossain, Reshmi Mannan and Hossain Zillur Rahman).
18) Public Expenditure and Social
Development in Bangladesh, MAP Focus Study Series No. 8, Centre on Integrated Rural Development for
Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP), Dhaka, 1998 (with Omar Haider Chowdhury).
19) Not Quite, Not Enough: Financial Allocation and the Distribution of Resources in the Health Sector, Working Paper No. 2, Health-Poverty Interface Study, BIDS/ WHO, 1997 (with Sharifa Begum) (Accepted for publication as BIDS Research Report).
20) "Poverty and Policy" in Rehman Sobhan
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