2009-2010 - BIDS

Graduate Diploma from Central School of Planning
and Statistics in Warsaw. He obtained a second
Master’s Degree from UFSIA, University of Antwerp
and subsequently Ph.D. in Applied Economics from
the same University. He has a number of published
articles in international and national academic
journals in the areas of international trade,
industrial economics, and employment. He has
co-authored several chapters in published books.
He also worked as a short-term consultant for the
World Bank, DFID, ADB, and EU. His current areas of
research interest relate to industrial employment
and international trade. He worked as a Senior
Research Fellow of BIDS till 2010.
K.M. Nabiul Islam
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. K. M. Nabiul Islam obtained his Masters Degree
from Dhaka University in 1970 and later received
Post-graduate diploma in National Economic
Planning from Warsaw and training in Rural
Research and Rural Policy from IDS of Sussex
University. He obtained a Ph.D. from the Flood
Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University,
London. Dr. Islam joined BIDS in 1972, and has since
been involved in a number of major studies relating
to, among others, development of rural and small
industries; development of large industries, with
particular reference to technological capability;
floods; famines; flood and water management; and
impact evaluation of rural development and flood
control, drainage and irrigation projects. Dr. Islam
has published widely in journals, published two
books on flood loss management, and co-authored
and contributed to several books. Currently, he is
working as a Senior Research Fellow at BIDS.
Anwara Begum
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Anwara Begum obtained her Ph.D. from the
University of Liverpool in 1995. She has been an
active researcher on rural, urban and international
migration having a wide interest in development
issues: female entrepreneurs, gender equality
and empowerment of women, employment
and income programs, rural and urban area
development priorities, formal and informal
industry worker conditions, informal service sector
and poverty issues, housing and settlements and
the problems of social and economic deprivation of
urban and rural poor dwellers, formal and technical
education, human resource development and
rural-to-urban migration. Currently, she is working
as a Senior Research Fellow of BIDS.
Mohammad Yunus
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Mohammad Yunus obtained his M.S.S. in
Economics from the University of Chittagong in
1990, M.Sc. and M. Phil. from the University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow in 1997 and 1998 respectively,
and Ph.D. from the Georgia State University, Atlanta
in 2006. He joined the BIDS in 1992. His current
research interests include taxation, state and local
government fiscal policies, fiscal decentralization,
food security and poverty alleviation, exchange
rate issues, tobacco consumption and health
hazards, and applied econometrics (time-series
and panel data). He has published extensively in
both national and international journals. He has
also to his credit numerous other publications
in the form of research reports, and contributed
to various other edited volumes. Currently, he is
working as a Senior Research Fellow of BIDS.
Zulfiqar Ali
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Zulfiqar Ali obtained Ph.D. in Economics
from the University of Bath in 1998. Earlier, he
obtained B.Sc. (Honours) and M.Sc. in Economics
from Jahangirnagar University in 1989 and 1990
respectively. Later, he completed a course on
“Economic Theory and Poverty Reduction: Theory,
Empirical Evidence and Implication for South Asia”
organized by the World Bank Institute in 1998 and
another course on “Human Development: From
Theory to Practice” from the Queen Elizabeth
House of the University of Oxford in 2000. His areas
of interest include growth, inequality and poverty;
human and social development; human wellbeing;
applied economics; natural resources and
environmental economics; and climate change.
Currently, he is working as a Senior Research Fellow
of BIDS.
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