Publications

Economic development

"The Policy of Laissez-Faire during Scarcities," Economic Journal (September 1980), 493-503.

"Towards a More General Model of Land Tenancy and Land Reform: Comment," (with M. G. Quibria), Quarterly Journal of Economics (November 1981), vol. XCVI (4), 725-730.

"Public Utilities in Egalitarian LDC's," Kyklos (v. 34, 1981), 448-460.

"A Simple Remark on Misrepresented Data in Regression Analysis," Bangladesh Development Studies, VIII (1980), 115-117.

"State Run Crop Insurance as a Public Policy in Accelerating Agricultural Growth in Developing Countries," in Rural Development, ed. B. L. Greenshields and Margot A. Bellamy (with S. M. Ahsan).

"The Puzzle of Sharecropping: A Critical Survey of Theories," World Development (January 1984) (with M. G. Quibria), Vol. 12(2), 103-114.

"Sharecropping in Dual Agrarian Economies: A Synthesis," (with M. G. Quibria), Oxford Economic Papers (March 1986), Vol. 38 (1), 94-111.

"Quality in Contestable Markets: A Historical Problem," Quarterly Journal of Economics, (March, 1988), 245-249.

"The Irish School of Economic Development: 1720-1750," The Manchester School of Social and Economic Studies (December, 1988), Vol. LVI, No. 4, 345-369.

"Population Studies," in Salim Rashid, ed., Bangladesh Economy: Evaluation and Research Agenda, Dhaka: University Press Limited, 1995.

"Entrepreneurship and Labour in Bangladesh Industries," (with N. Hossain), in Salim Rashid, ed., Bangladesh Economy: Evaluation and Research Agenda, Dhaka: University Press Limited, 1995.

"Is Land Reform Passé? With Special Reference to Asian Agriculture," (with M. G. Quibria), in Critical Issue in Asian Development, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1995.

"Wage Subsidy and Full-Employment in a Dual Economy with Open Unemployment and Surplus Labour," (with A. W. Khandker), Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming.

"Tournaments and Sharecropping," Economica (with S. Banerji), Vol. 63:250, 343-352, May 1996.

"Monetarist and Structuralist Views of Bangladesh Inflation" (with Shahina Amin), Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 22(4), 99-114, 1994.

In Quest of Development: Macroeconomy of South Asia (with Akhtar Hossain), University Press, Dhaka, 1996.

“Capital Flight from Bangladesh” (with M. I. Alam and Asif Dowla), Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 23(1&2), 67-87, 1995.

„Financial Sector Reform‟ in M G Quibria ed., The Bangladesh Economy in Transition (OUP Delhi), 221-274, with Akhtar Hossain

„Social Impact of the Brain Drain‟ in Ashraf Ali et al, eds., Development Issues of Bangladesh (UPL Dhaka), 251-268. 1996

“The Economic Value of the Mississippi River System,” in Water and Development: Water is Life, Proceedings of the Third Princess Chulabhorn Science Congress, Bangkok 1998.

“Agricultural and Economic Effects of the 1993 Upper Mississippi River Floods,” with John Braden and Mursaleena Islam, in M. M. Ali et al, editors, Bangladesh Floods: Views from Home and Abroad (University Press, Dhaka, 1998).

Bangladesh Floods: Views from Home and Abroad (University Press, Dhaka, 1998), editor, joint with M. M. Ali, M. Hoque and R. Rahman.

“The State and Industry in the Development Process”, with Werner Baer and Hadi Esfahani, in Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 27, (3), 385-404, 1999.

"Bangladesh's large and growing Trade deficit with India", with Akhtar Hossain, Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 38, (1), 25-68, Spring 1999.

"Exports, Imports and Economic Growth in Malaysia", Asian Economic Journal, 2005, with A Z Baharumshah

Economic Policy for Growth: Economic Development is Human Development (Kluwer Publishers, Holland, July 2000).

“Compact Townships as a Strategy for Economic Development”, Keynote paper in Asian Affairs, Vol. 22, (1), January 2000.

“Compact Townships and Economic Development”, Web Journal of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Fall 2001.

“Indo Bangladesh Trade: Problems and Prospects”, in P. Bannerjee and F. Richter, eds., Indian Foreign Trade in the New Century (forthcoming).

“Robustness of Optimal Tax Policy in a Dual Economy”, with Wahhab Khandker, Journal of Developing Areas, 2002.

Rotting from the Head: Donors and Corruption in LDC‟s, University Press, Dhaka, 2003, editor.

“Donors and LDC Corruption” and “Donors as Icebergs”, in Rotting from the Head: Donors and Corruption in LCD‟s, University Press, Dhaka, 2003.

“Public Health and Governance: The Experience of Bangladesh and Ukraine”, special issue of Volume 45 of The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, guest edited by Werner Baer and Paul Cook.(2005).

„Migration and Bangladesh‟s Economic Development‟, in Ashraf Ali et al eds., Development Issues of Bangladesh (UPL Dhaka, 2003), 439-456.

„From Anxiety to Nonchalance‟ History of Political Economy, Special Issue, Ed M Boianovsky and M Alacevich (May 2018 )

Consultant for Bangladesh Planning Commission(1991), Asian Development Bank(2001) and World Bank(2007 & 2008).