Sample of my selected work

 

Here is a sample of my selected work; some done alone and some with others. If you have comments or suggestions and/or would like further information including receiving copies of any of these documents (I would eventually make them available through this page), please send me an email: [email protected]

 

Projects completed jointly with others

  Red and Green: A Bangladesh Collage: Free Market Principles in Economics, Politics, Culture and Education (with Laura Jean Bhadra); a book published by the University Press Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

  Financial Services for the Poor in Bangladesh: CARE-Bangladesh Program for Associations Serving Small Enterprises Toward Sustainability (ASSETS) (with Laura Jean Bhadra); A feasibility report, analysis of data on 267 rotatory savings and credit associations in 3 metropolises of Bangladesh (Dhaka, Chittagong, and Khulna), and a program evaluation for CARE.

  Implementation Completion Report: Urban Development Project (Cr. #1930-BD): Bangladesh (with T. Keicho, and Z. Khan); An evaluation of performance of the first urban development project in Bangladesh. The World Bank.

 Bangladesh Municipal Finance Management Sector Study (with the MFM Sector Study consisting of J. Kamkwala, J. Martinez, J. Alm, H. Huckaby, R. McHugh, L. J. Bhadra, and others); Final Report for the Municipal Finance Reform project. The World Bank.

 Alternative Delivery of Municipal Services in Bangladesh; An Evaluation of NGOs and the Private Sector (with Laura Jean Bhadra); A feasibility report of NGO delivery of municipal public goods. The World Bank.

 Municipal Finance Management Sector Study: Volume II: Detailed Report and Survey Results; Confidential Report No. 16555-BD (with the MFM Sector Study consisting of J. Kamkwala, J. Martinez, J. Alm, H. Huckaby, R. McHugh, L. J. Bhadra, and others). Analysis of data on 26 municipalities and 4 city corporations of Bangladesh. The World Bank.

 Bangladesh 2020: A Long-run Perspective Study (with Z. Sattar, A. Rahman, A. Nishat, and K. Ahmed); The World Bank and Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies.

 Activity Reports: Projects Sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Institute of Development, Environment, and Strategic Studies and Department of Environmental Studies, North South University; (with Laura Jean Bhadra), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 Urbanization, Agriculture, Land Allocation and Role of Public Policies (with Antonio S. P. Brandao). The World Bank.

 A Resource Training Kit to Build Technical Capacity in Indian Micro Finance Intermediaries (with H. Noponen and others); Friends of Women's World Banking/India and International Center for Research on Women, USA under a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

 

Individual projects

 Migration, Urban Poverty, and Policy Coordination in LDCs: A Case Study of the Dhaka (Bangladesh) Metropolitan District; under the Robert S. McNamara Fellowship program, The World Bank.

 Urbanization Trends in Bangladesh: Sectoral Issues and Action Agenda; Asian Development Bank (contract #ADM/96-216).

 Final Report: Building the Capacity of Indian NGOs to Develop a Financially Viable Micro Enterprise Programme for Low Income Household Women; Friends of Women's World Banking/India and International Center for Research on Women, USA under a grant from the USAID.

 Ph. D. Thesis: Urban Agglomeration, Land Use and Population in a Dual Economy: A General Equilibrium Analysis with Empirical Applications, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

 

Some other accomplishments

 Click here for a list of my professional papers and presentation in conferences, seminars and workshops

 Click here for a list of my completed sponsored projects

 Click here for a list of my grant proposals

 Click here for a list of my policy advocacy articles in daily newspapers

 Our work at the Institute of Development, Environment, and Strategic Studies, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 Click here for a copy of my graduate school transcript (will be available soon)

 Click here to see how my students evaluated me in the past (will be available soon)

 Finally, here is a book of short stories, Splash!, that we all put together during our stay in Dhaka, Bangladesh (will be available soon)

 

 

It's not all work! Meet my dear family here, and there!  

 

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