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Research interest: development economics specialising in population, gender and environmental issues; agriculture and rural development; small industries and the informal sector in Asian countries: social capital, institutions and common-pool resources in India and Bangladesh,  and service provision in health and education sector

List of Published and Unpublished Work

Monographs

• Women and Fertility in Bangladesh, Sage, New Delhi, 1991.

• Child Labour in Bangladesh- a monograph, (together with Md. A. Quasem), Dhaka, 1991.

• Agricultural Stagnation Under Population Pressure: the Case of Bangladesh, Vikas Publications, New Delhi, 1984.

Published Articles

• "Limited Participation of Bangladeshi Women in Market Activities: a social or economic problem?," South Asia Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2, 1988.

• "The Status of Women and Fertility in Bangladesh: a micro study", South Asia Journal 4, 1, 1990.

• "Use of Children in Rural Bangladesh- results from a Survey", Bangladesh Development Review, (in Bangla together with Md. Abul Quasem), December, 1988.

• "The Effects of Population Growth on a Peasant Economy: the Case of Bangladesh", The Primary Sector in Economic Development edited by Mats Lundahl, Croom Helm, 1985

• SIDA: Country Report - Bangladesh, October (1988).

• "The State and the Child Workers in Bangladesh" in Gender, Culture and Power Vol 2, edited by Kristi Anne Stolen, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, 1991.

• "Economic Reforms under an Import Substitution: Regime: the experiences of Bangladesh" in Trade, Growth and Development- The Role of Politics and Institutions, Proceedings of the
• 1991 Arne Ryde Symposium in Honour of Bo Södersten, Routledge

• "Population Growth, Poverty and Environment in Bangladesh" in Demography, Economy and Welfare, in Scandinavian Population Studies, Vol. 10, 1995.

• "Population Growth and Sustainable Agricultural Development in Developing Countries" (in Swedish), Ekonomisk Debatt 1, 1994 Together with Rolf Ohlsson, comments on Mia Horn AF Rantzien`s article.

• "Folkökning, ekonomisk utveckling och bistånd" Ekonomisk Debatt 1993, Ekonomisk Debatt 8, 1994.

• "Fertilitetsnedgången i Bangladesh, Kommentarer" i Ekonomisk Debatt 3, 1995

• Institutions, Economic Policies and Economic Growth in Sri Lanka, Country Economic Report 1999:1, Sida.

• Sri Lanka: Dispersed Industrial Patternfor Reducing Poverty and Regional Inequality in Sri Lanka, Country Economic Report 2000:3, Sida.

• "Recent Changes in Thailand´s Rural Economy: Evidence from Six villages" paper presented at the Third Asian Conference of Agricultural Economists, in Jaipur, India, October 17-21, 2000 , and published in Economic and. Political Weekly, Mumbai (India), Vol. XXXV, Nos. 52 and 53, Review of Agriculture , December 30, 2000.

• An Institutional Analysis of Changes in Land Use Pattern and Water Scarcity in Dak Lak Province, Vietnam, Paper to be presented at the Nordic Conference on "Institutions, Livelihoods and the Environment: Change and Response in Mainland Southeast Asia" in Copenhagen, 27-29 September, 2000, and published in Institutions, Livelihoods and the Environment - change and response in Mainland Southeast Asis, NIAS, Denmark (2001).

• Decentralization and the Role of Community Participation in India and Bangladesh - A paper presented at the International Conference on Fiscal Decentralization in Indonesia, organized by UNDP, Bandung, Indonesia, 2002.

• Provision of Primary Health Care in Bangladesh: An Institutional Analysis, paper presented at the 2003 Annual Conference on Development Research in Lund University.Published in the conference volume. Available in Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, Lund University, also published in a book.  

• Rural Poverty and Agricultural Diversification in Thailand: Analysis of Household-level Data, Paper presented at the SSAAP Conference in Lund, 2003. Available at SSAAPS (The Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies website. Also available in the working paper series, Lund University.

• Inequality in the Access to Education and Poverty in Bangladesh  Working Paper Series (2003:7), Department of Economics, Lund University.

• The Role of Social Capital and NGOs in Community-Based Management of Open Water Inland Fisheries of Bangladesh, Working Paper Series 2003:9, Department of Economics, Lund University.
• The Civil Society, Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation, paper presented at the Workshop on Civil Society´s Role in Development Work, Sida Civil Society Center, January, 2004.
• The Nature and Impact of Women´s Participation in Economic Activities in Rural Bangladesh: Insights from household surveys, Working Paper no. 2004-20, Department of Economics, Lund University. (together with M. Hossain and M. L. Bose.
• Agricultural diversification and rural poverty in Thailand, Paper presented at the World Rice Research Conference, 4-7 November, 2004, Tsukuba, Japan, Published in Conference volume.
• Inequality in the Access to Secondary Education and Rural Poverty in Bangladesh: An Analysis of Household and School Level Data, paper presentated at the World Bank Workshop on Equity and Development in South Asia, December 7-8, New Delhi, 2004. Available in Working Paper  series 2005:36.
• Provision of Primary Healthcare Services in urban areas of Bangladesh: the case of Urban Primary Health Care Project", Working paper series 2007:9.

Unpublished dissertation and papers

• Employment, Productivity and Development: Lessons to Bangladesh and Other Labour-Surplus Economies, Unpublished dissertation, Institute of Economics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1974.

• Some Reflections on Trade Between the CMEA and the Third World Countries, Part I and II, papers written for the Institute of Economics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1976.

• Economic Relations Between the CMEA and the Third World, a paper written for the Institute of Economics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1976.

• Urban Poverty and the Informal Sector - a review of research, Meddelande 1990: 121, Nationalekonomiska institutionen vid Lunds Universitet.

• The Urban Labour Market and Labour Absorption in the Non-farm Sector of Bangladesh, Working paper 1996:61, Department of Economics, Lund University.

• Occupational Mobility among Informal Sector Workers and Urban Poverty an analysis of data 500 slum households from Dhaka city" Working Paper 1997, Department of Economics, University of Lund.

• Economic Changes under Demographic Pressure in the Salinity Affected Coastal Region of Bangladesh , draft monograph, 1999.

• Education and Poverty in Bangladesh - An Analysis of  Household Data, A Paper presented at the Poverty Conference, Sida Stockholm, 17-18 October 2001.

• Book review: Michael P. Todaro (2000) Economic Development (seventh edition), Addison, Wesley, Longman.

• Social Capital, Collective Action and NGOs - A Research Agenda: A Paper presented at the Conference on Institutions and Development, Orissa, India, 2-6 January, 2002.

• "Poverty, Livelihood Strategies, Social Capital and NGOS: Conceptual Issues and a Framework for Empirical Analysis " for the project, Social Capital, Collective Action and NGOs in Bangladesh, a component of DFID-financed project on Livelihood strategies in rural Bangladesh together with Dr. Rita Afsar, BIDS, Dhaka and Dr. Mahabub Hossain, IRRI, Manila, 2003.

Most recent work   (2005-7)

• Management of Inland Open Water Fisheries in Bangladesh: A Study of the CBFM, a paper to be presented at the Workshop on Community-based Organizations and Management of Inland Fisheries: Case Studies of India and Bangladesh, October 23-26, 2006 in Ahmedabad, India organized by the Gujrat Development Research Institute, India.

• The Access to Primary Health Care Facilities in the Rural Areas of Bangladesh: An Analysis of Household Data from Khulna Division in Bangladesh , part of the final report of the Sida-financed project on health care in Bangladesh.

• The Civil Society and Service Provision in the Health and Education Sector of  Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, A Conceptual paper prepared for the research proposal to SAREC for 2007. 

On-going work

• Diversification of agriculture and the rural economy in Thailand – An Analysis of data for 1987, 1995 and 1998. The report is under preparation with the financial support from the Center for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University,  A follow-up study (financed by the Research Council, Sweden) undertaken in Thailand and Vietnam is in the process of completion. There is research cooperation with Kasetsart University, Thailand and Cu Long Delta Rice Research Institute, Vietnam and the Department of Human Geography, Hanoi University, Vietnam.

• Involved in developing a research programme (State, Community and Resources) on common-pool resource management in South Asian countries under the initiative of SASNET (South Asian Studies Network). Under the programme a project on Community Management of Fisheries in India and Bangladesh is underway with the financial help from SASNET in cooperation with ISEC, Bangalore, India and BIDS, Bangladesh.

• Microfinance and Poverty Reduction in the rural sector: a case study of Sri Lanka, three-year project together with Open University, Colombo, and financed by Sida-Swedish Research Links.

• Community Management of Openwater Inland Fisheries: comparative study of India and Bangladesh, financed by Sida-Swedish Research Links, 3-year project from 2004.

• Decentralization of the Health Sector in India and Bagladesh: a planning project financially supported by SASNET, Lund University. The planning grant has been used to develop the proposed project.

• Institutional Problems in the primary healthcare sector of Bangladesh, Two-year research (2005-06) project financed by Sida/SAREC.

• The Civil Society and Service Provision in the Health and Education Sector: A Comparative Study of West Bengal, India and Bangladesh, Study financed by SAREC, 2007.