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STUDIES IN TRADE AND INVESTMENT 70 Acknowledgements This research project was implemented by Masato Abe, working under the overall supervision of Ravi Ratnayake, Director of the Trade and Investment Division and Marc Proksch, Section Chief, Private Sector and Development Section, Trade and Investment Division, United Nations ESCAP. Bhavani P. Dhungana and Bhuban B. Bajracharya played advisory roles throughout the implementation of the project. Masato Abe and Bhuban B. Bajracharya drafted Chapters 1, 2 and 3. Posh Raj Pandy contributed to a section on the value chain approach in Chapter 1. Annex 1 was prepared by Sheikh Morshed Jahan and Mohammad Saif Noman Khan, while Posh Raj Pandey contributed Annex 2. Annex 3 was written by Ananda K.W. Jayawardane, R.A. Attalage and Masato Abe. K. Ramanathan provided valuable advice on different sections of the Chapters and the Annexes. Throughout the project implementation and finalization stages, members of national steering committees in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka provided substantive guidance. In the course of preparation of this publication, research assistance was provided by Paradai Adisayathepkul for all chapters, particularly for Annex 3. Suman Basnyat assisted in research for Chapter 1 while Sagar Sen, Asif Javed Rahman, M. Rashedur Rahman Raju, Mashref Ul Hoque and Abdullah Al Mahmud contributed for Chapter 3 and and Neelu Thapa and Paras Kharel for Chapter 4. Fabian Suwanprateep enhanced the readability of the publication by improving its outline, while, at the same time, providing research assistance. Linghe Ye, Pradeep Kumar Angadi, and Wenru Xie also provided research assistance. Technical editing was done by Masato Abe, Bhavani P. Dhungana and Bhuban B. Bajracharya. Paradai Adisayathepkul, Fabian Suwanprateep and Natthika Charoenphon formatted the final manuscripts. Napidchaya Pichedtanavanich provided cover and book layout design. Natthika Charoenphon and Napidchaya Pichedtanavanich provided secretarial assistance. iv
COUNTRY STUDIES ON BANGLADESH, NEPAL AND SRI LANKA Contributors MASATO ABE is an Economic Affairs Officer in the Private Sector and Development Section, Trade and Investment Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). He has extensive experience in enterprise development with a special emphasis on the SME sector and supply chain management. Prior to joining the United Nations, he worked in the global automotive, electronics and high-technology industries. He holds degrees in marketing, business administration and economics, and is a research fellow at Thammasat University. R.A. ATTALAGE is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and has worked in this capacity since 2003. He obtained his B.Sc. in Engineering (Honours) Degree from the University of Moratuwa, his MEng in Energy Technology from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, and a Ph.D. from the École des Mines de Paris. He has worked as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and Nexant Inc. on energy related assignments. He is also a chartered engineer and has several publications in journals and has made presentations in many international and national conferences and seminars. BHUBAN B. BAJRACHARYA is an independent development economist. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Delhi School of Economics. He was Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Development and Administration, Tribhuban University, Nepal. He has worked in the fields of planning, poverty analysis, economic and sectoral policy analysis and monitoring and evaluation. He served as an advisor to the National Planning Commission and Ministry of Finance, Nepal. He has worked in different capacities for the Asian Development Bank, the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank. SHEIKH MORSHED JAHAN is a private sector development specialist, with 18 years of experience in teaching, training and research. He provides strategic and advisory services to businesses, industry associations and development organizations. His areas of expertise include market development, intervention design, sector study, value chain analysis, market research, feasibility study, stakeholder mapping and policy analysis. Currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka, he teaches in MBA, Executive MBA and BBA programmes. He holds an MA in international development policy from Duke University and an MBA from the University of Dhaka. He was a Commonwealth fellow at IIM-Ahmedabad and a Joint Japan/World Bank scholar (JJ/WBGSP) at Duke. v ANANDA K.W. JAYAWARDANE was Dean, Faculty of Engineering and a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka when this project commenced. Prof. Jayawardane, a Chartered Engineer, has co-authored textbooks and published and
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