Designation : Senior Research Fellow

Last Degree Earned : Ph.D in Economics from the University College London, University of London, UK. 

Areas of Interest  : Trade and environment in the WTO, trade liberalization and its impact on various sectors of the economy of Bangladesh, valuation of environmental and natural resources degradation, natural resource accounting, environment-population-poverty nexus, environment and sustainable development. 

Other Involvement (Current):

• Member, Bangladesh Economic Association
• Member, Bangladesh Rabindrashangeet Shilpi Shangstha
• Cultural Secretary, Shangeet Chakro

Significant Publications :

• Duty Free Quota Free Market Access for South Asian LDCs, in the South Asia Yearbook of Trade and Development 2006 of Centre for Trade and Development (CENTAD), Oxfam GB, India.

• Minimum Wage in the Ready Made Garments in Bangladesh (in Bangla, Bangladesher Poshak Shiple Nunotomo Mojuri: Prekhkhit Bangladesh), Bangladesh Unnoyan Shomikhkha, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, February 2007.

• Gender and Trade Liberalisation in Bangladesh: The Case of Ready Made Garments, implemented under the Greater Access to Trade Expansion (GATE) project of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) December 2006.

• Macroeconomic Stability and Growth Performance in South Asian Countries: A Comparative Perspective on Bangladesh (co-author), in Independent Review of Bangladesh’s Development implemented by the Centre for Policy Dialogue, University Press Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2006.

• Aquaculture: Issues and Options for Sustainable Productions and Trade, co-author, Issue Paper No. 5, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Geneva, July 2006, also available at (http://www.ictsd.org/pubs/ictsd_series/nat_res/Asche_Khatun_2006.pdf)

• Hong Kong Declaration of the WTO: Reflections on the Outcomes from Bangladesh Perspective, co-author, CPD Trade Policy Brief Series 12, December 2005; also published in the Journal of the Cost and Management, Vol. 34, No.2, March-April 2006, pp 68-83, Bangladesh

• Fish Trade Liberalisation in Bangladesh: Implications of SPS Measures and Eco-Labelling for the Export Oriented Shrimp Sector, Research Monograph 1, CPD, February 2006; also published by the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), the University of Greenwich, UK and FAO, July 2004, Italy, and available at  ww.nri.org/projects/fishtrade/bangladesh.pdf

• Bishwa Banijjoy Shongshthar Hong Kong Shommelon O Bangladesher Banijjoy Neeti (in Bangla), co-author, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka, February 2006.

• Bishwa Banijjoy Shongshthar Hong Kong Ghoshona: Bangladesher Prapti O Koroniyo (in Bangla), Bangladesh Unnoyan Shomikhkha, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, February 2006.

• Hong Kong and LDCs: Little to Cheer, in Trading Up, Centre for Trade and Development (Centad), Oxfam, New Delhi, Vol 2, Issue 1, January-March 2006.

• Les résultats de Hongkong : Une évaluation à partir de la perspective des PMA, published in PASSERELLES entre le commerce et le développement durable, ICTSD and Enda Tiers Monde, Vol VII, No. 1, January-February 2006.

• Hong Kong Ministerial: Current Negotiations and LDCs, in Trade Insight, Vol 1, No. 3, July-August 2005, published by South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE), Nepal.

• Road to Hong Kong Ministerial of the WTO: Anticipating the “First Approximations” from Bangladesh Perspective, (co-author), CPD Occasional Paper Series 49, May 2005.

• Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of Bangladesh (in Bangla), chapter in Bangla book on "World Trade Organisation and Bangladesh: Post Cancun Assessment (Bishwa Banijjaya Shangsth Ebong Bangladesh: Cancun Shommelonottor Mullayan)", Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), 2004.

• Environmental Debates in the WTO and Interest of Bangladesh (in Bangla), chapter in Bangla book on "World Trade Organisation and Bangladesh: Post Cancun Assessment (Bishwa Banijjaya Shangsth Ebong Bangladesh: Cancun Shommelonottor Mullayan)", Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), 2004.

• Options for Self-Reliant Resurgence: CPD's Rapid Assessment of Flood 2004, coauthor, published by the University Press Limited (UPL), Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 2005.

• Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health in Least Developed Countries (in Bangla), Bangladesh Unnayan Shamikhkha, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, February 2005.

• Fisheries Subsidies and Marine Fisheries Resource Management: Lessons from Bangladesh, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Geneva, April 2004.

• Environmental Debates in The WTO: Defining Bangladesh's Interests, Occasional Paper No. 35, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 2004.

• Trade and Environment: The missing agenda of LDC published in the EU-LDC Brief, EU-LDC Network, Europe- Developing Countries, the Netherlands, August 2003.

• Population and Environment in Bangladesh: Designing a Policy Accounting for Linkages, in Demographic Dynamics in Bangladesh: Looking at the Larger Picture, Centre for Policy Dialogue, UNFPA, Pathak Shamabesh, 2003.

• Ongoing WTO Negotiations and Bangladesh's Interests: Insights from CPD's October 2002 Tracking Missions in Geneva, CPD Occasional Paper No. 27, December 2003.

• Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalisation and Policies for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resource - A Case Study on Bangladesh's Shrimp Farming Industry, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Geneva, November, 1999.

• Environmental Valuation: Concepts and Issues, in "Environmental Economics”, edited by Dr. Qazi Kholiquzzaman and others, International Union of Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Dhaka, 1999.

• An Economic Analysis of Protecting Bangladesh from Sea Level Rise, Bangladesh Unnayan Shamikkha, BIDS Journal (Bangla), Vol. 16, February, 1999.

• Environmental Degradation and Sustainable Development in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Unnayan Shamikkha, BIDS Journal (Bangla), Vol. 15, February, 1998.

• Environment and Sustainable Development in Bangladesh, Journal of Social Studies, No. 80, Dhaka University, April, 1998.

• Poverty and Environment: Delusion and Reality, Chapter for the Report on South Asia Poverty Monitor, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 1998.

• Women in Bangladesh: Lives That Still Get Less, Chapter for the Report on South Asia Poverty Monitor, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 1998, Mimeo.

• The Cost of Particulate Air Pollution in Dhaka City, The Bangladesh Development Studies (BDS), Nos. 1 and 2, Vol. XXV, March-June, 1997.

• Depreciation of Forest Resources in Bangladesh, Research Report No. 157, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka, May, 1998.

• Environmental Degradation and Sustainable Development, Bangladesh Unnayan ^-Shamikkha, BIDS Journal (Bangla), Vol. 15, February, 1998.

• Evaluation of Women's Poverty Alleviation Programmes in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 1991, Mimeo.

• Poverty Alleviation and Economic Development in Bangladesh, Journal of Social       Studies (Bangla), No. 41, Dhaka University, August 1991.

• Devaluation and the Economy of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Unnayan Shamikkha, BIDS Journal (Bangla), Vol. 8, February, 1990.

• Socio-economic Condition of Female Workers in Garments Industries in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Unnayan Shamikkha, BIDS Journal (Bangla), Vol. 6, February, 1989.

• Foreign Private Investment in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 1988, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

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