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Structure
Research
Advisory Panel (RAP)
Prof. Wahiduddin Mahmud
Prof. Wahiduddin Mahmud is currently the Professor of Economics at Dhaka
University. He is also the President of Bangladesh Economic Association,
a post he has held since 1996, and the Chairman of the PKSF, a premier
institution in Bangladesh for funding microcredit programmes of the
NGOs.
He is the Chairman of the Banking Reform Committee set up by the Government
of Bangladesh and the Panel of Economists for the Fifth Five Year Plan
(1998-2002), a Member of the Macroeconomic Consultative Committee of
the Ministry of Finance and a Board Member of the Central Bank.
He has been a Convenor of the Agricultural Commission as well as the
Banking Commission. He was the Minister of Finance and Planning in the
1996 National Caretaker Government in Bangladesh.
He holds a PhD from University of Cambridge and has served as a consultant
at international agencies including the World Bank. He has held visiting
faculty positions at various institutes prominent among them being,
the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
Prof. Mahmud has published a number of research papers in reputed academic
journals, particularly on macroeconomic policies and reforms, macroeconomic
models of developing countries, structural adjustment, food policy,
agricultural and rural diversification, manpower planning, international
labour migration, rural development and gender issues.
His prominet works are: Macroeconomics of Microcredit: The Experience
in Bangladesh, book manuscript, CIRDAP, Dhaka, 2000; Social Development
and Minimum Needs: New Role of the UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions,
mimeo, UN WIDER, Helsinki and "Agricultural Diversification: A Strategic
Factor for Growth" in R Ahmed and S Haggblade (eds), Out of the Shadows
of Famine: Evolving Food Markets and Food Policy in Bangladesh,
the John Hopkins University Press for IFPRI, 2000. His forthcoming edited
book is titled Adjustment and Beyond: The Reform Experience in South
Asia, Macmillan (London).
Contact:
Professor
Department of Economics
University of Dhaka
Dhaka-1000
Bangladesh
Tel : +880-2-966
1920
Tel : (Res)+880-281
9114
Fax : +880-2-865583/9126244
Email : wmahmud@bangla.net
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