Faizul Latif Chowdhury

BOOKS

LITERATURE

JIBANANANDA DAS

ECONOMICS

OTHERS

A Short Biographical Note

Faizul Latif Chowdhury (1959). An economist, essayist and literary critic. Currently, he is based in Belgium.

He did Bachelors and Masters in Economics in 1981 and 1983 from Dhaka University. Later, in 1992, he obtained MBA from Monash University, Australia; and he did MSc in Public Administration and Public Policy from London School of Economic in 1997.  Earlier he also studied at the Deakin University, Australia for a brief period.

He has published more than twenty titles so far, mostly anthologies and translations.

Father: Mr. Abdul Latif Talukder is a lawyer in Mymensingh town, Bangladesh.

Mother: Mrs.  Iffat Ara is a fictionist and a veteran social worker. She edits a monthly literary magazine called the Ditiyo Chinta, since 1985.

Wife: Dr Shirin Tarafder is an Associate Professor of Microbiology at BBSM Medical University, Dhaka.

Son -1: Faizul Asif Chowdhury (1987), a student of Economics at the Royal Holloway University of London.

Son -2: Faizus Saquib Chowdhury (1997), a student of International School of Brussels (Grade-V).

Sister: Mrs. Farzana Yasmin (1958) is an Associate Professor of Economics in Dhaka.

Brother: Dr Lutful Latif Chowdhury (1960)is a GP working in the Apollo Hospital in Dhaka city with an MRCP from the UK.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Faizul Chowdhury's research interests are wide and varied.

Literary

Bengali poet Jibanananda Das Treatment of Sex in Literature.

Modern Bengali poetry

Economic

Public sector economics

Fiscal Policy, Budgets

Taxation, Tax Evasion and Tax reforms

Smuggling

Public Management

Corruption in Public Bureaucracy Police Misconduct in Bangladesh

Public Policy

Policy Formulation in Bangladesh Trade policy making

Humanities

Right, Liberty and Social Decision

Psychology

Sexuality and Sexual Behaviour.

ARTICLES

LITERATURE

ECONOMICS

ON POET JIBANANANDA DAS

ON WORLD LITERATURE

POEMS OF JIBANANANDA DAS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

BENGALI POETRY IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

BOOK REVIEWS

HUMAYUN AHMED

HUMAYUN AZAD

CURRENT RESEARCH

Bengali Pornography : A comparative study of Pornography of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.

RECENT PUBLICATION

CORRUPT BUREAUCRACY AND PRIVATIZATION OF TAX ENFORCEMENT IN BANGLADESH