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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