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 bids@bdonline.com

4. Head of the Organisation : Quazi Shahabuddin

(Name and Designation) 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 : Research Reports

Of the Organisation (1996-
99)
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

(Ed.), Growth or Stagnation? A Review of
Bangladesh's Development 1996, Centre
for Policy Dialogue and University Press
Ltd, Dhaka, February 1997, pp. 115-160.

21) "Economic Growth and Human

Development in Bangladesh, 1973-1995",
Journal of Social Studies, No. 74 (Special
Issue: 25 Years of Bangladesh), Centre for
Social Studies, Dhaka, October 1996, pp.
62-99.

22) "Twenty Five Years of Bangladesh: An

Optimistic View", Bangladesh Unnayan
Shamikhya, Vol. 14, 1997, pp. 1-14 (with
Abu Ahmed Abdullah) (in Bangla).
23) "NGOs in Bangladesh Agriculture: An
Exploratory Study". In: Bangladesh
Agriculture: Performance and Policies, Vol.
5 (Institutions), UNDP: Agricultural Sector
Review Project, Dhaka, 1989.

24) "Task Force Report on Poverty

Alleviation". In: Report of the Task Forces
on Bangladesh Development Strategies for
the 1990s, Vol. 1, University Press Ltd,
Dhaka, 1991 (with Mahabub Hossain, S.R.
Osmani and others).

25) An Assessment of Poverty Reduction

Objectives of the Asian Development
Bank's Operations in Bangladesh, Asian
Development Bank, Manila, May 1999
(accepted for publication from ADB,
Manila).

26) "Rural Non-farm Sector in Bangladesh:

Stagnating and Residual, or Dynamic and
Potential?", Bangladesh Development
Studies,
Vol. 24, Nos. 3&4, September-December
1996, pp. 143-180.

27) Health and Poverty in the Context of

Country Development Strategy: A Case
Study on Bangladesh, Technical Paper
No. 26, "Macroeconomics, Health and
Development" Series, World Health
Organisation, Geneva, 1997.

28) "Health and Poverty in Bangladesh", World

Health, No. 5, September-October 1997,
pp. 28-29 (with Shambhu Acharya).

29) "Impacts on Rural Poverty of Land-

contingent Targeting: Some Further
Results for Bangladesh", World
Development, Vol. 22, No. 6, June 1994,
pp. 823-838 (with Martin Ravallion).

30) "Politics of Poverty Alleviation" in Rehman

Sobhan (Ed.), Crisis in Governance. A
Review of Bangladesh's Development
1997, Centre for Policy Dialogue and
 University Press Ltd, Dhaka, June 1998,
pp. 159-182.

31) "Privatisation in Bangladesh: Process,

Dynamics and Implications". In: V.
Kanesalingam (Ed.), Privatisation Trends
and Experiences in South Asia, Macmillan
India Ltd., India, New Delhi, 1991.

32) Bangladesh: Privatisation and Adjustment,

South Asia Country Department I, World
Bank, Washington, D.C., March 1994,
153p (co-author).

33) "Industrial Entrepreneurship in Bengal". In:

Sirajul Islam (Ed.), History of Bangladesh,
Vol.2 (Economic History), Asiatic Society
of Bangladesh, Dhaka, 1992, pp. 428-485.

34) The Social Background of

Entrepreneurship: An Occupational Profile
of Borrowers from the DFIs, Research
Report No. 71, BIDS, Dhaka, 1989 (with
Rehman Sobhan) (Also in: Rehman
Sobhan, Ed., Debt Default to the
Development Finance Institutions: The
Crisis of State-sponsored
Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh,
University Press Ltd, Dhaka, 1991,
Chapter 2, pp. 10-68).

35) "Exploring the Property Rights: Some

Reflections on the Agenda for Public
Enterprise Reform in Bangladesh", Journal
of Social Studies, Vol. 60, Centre for Social
Studies, Dhaka, April 1993, pp. 34-44.

36) "Development of Big Business in

Bangladesh: A Quick Glance", Muktir
Digonto, Vol. 4, 1988, pp. 1-27 (in Bangla).

37) Moneylenders and Informal Financial

Markets: Insights from Haor Areas of Rural
Bangladesh, Research Report No. 100,
BIDS, Dhaka, 1989.

38) "Trends in the Repayment Performance to

the DFIs: Implications for the Development
of Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh", The
 Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 17
, No. 3, September 1989, pp. 21-66 (with
Rehman Sobhan) (Also in: Rehman
Sobhan (Ed.), Debt Default to the
Development Finance Institutions: The
Crisis of State-sponsored
Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh,
University Press Ltd, Dhaka, 1991,
Chapter 7, pp. 260-309).

39) "Crisis in Repayment Performance to the

DFIs: A Crisis in Capitalist Development in
Bangladesh?", Bangladesh Unnayan
Shamikhya, Vol. 6, BIDS, 1988, pp. 24-41
(with Rehman Sobhan) (in Bangla).

40) "Attempts to Reform the Financial Sector:

Issues and Trends". In: Rehman Sobhan
(Ed.), The Decade of Stagnation: the State
of the Bangladesh Economy in the 1980s,
University Press Ltd., Dhaka, 1991, pp. 16-
29.

41) "Mosharaff Hossain's Sustainable Medium-

Term Development Strategy for
Bangladesh: A Critique", In: Sustainable
Medium-Term Development for
Bangladesh, Centre for Economic, Social
and Environmental Research, Dhaka,
Bangladesh, 1993, pp. 125-132 (with
Mustafizur Rahman).

42) "Reform in China: Economic and

Ideological Aspects", Samaj Nirikkhon, Vol.
48, Centre for Social Studies, Dhaka, May
1993, pp. 1-21 (in Bangla).

43) Modernisation at Bay: Structure and

Change in Bangladesh, University Press
Ltd., Dhaka, 1991, 159p (with Abu
Abdullah, Rita Afsar and Atiur Rahman).

44) "Studies in Economic Development of

Bangladesh: The Post-Independence
Years", In: Anthology of Essays, Bangla
Academy, Dhaka, May 1992, pp. 85-115
(originally presented as a key-note paper
to the seminar on "Development Research
in Bangladesh" organised by the Bangla
Academy in February 1991) (in Bangla).
45) "Rural-Urban Intersectoral Transfer of
Resources in Bangladesh", Journal of
Social Studies, Vol. 26, Centre for Social
Studies, Dhaka, Oct. 1984, pp. 12-31 (with
Mustafizur Rahman).

46) "Capitalist Transformation of the Rural

Economy: Some Aspects of Marxist
Debate in Bangladesh", Samaj Nirikkhon,
Vol. 32, Centre for Social Studies, Dhaka,
May 1989, pp. 1-33 (in Bangla).