About the Author

Mustafa K. Mujeri is the Director-General of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), and Coordinator of the SANEI, the South Asian regional arm of the Global Development Network. He obtained his PhD in Economics from McMaster University in Canada. Before joining BIDS, he served as the Chief Economist of the Bangladesh Bank (country's central bank), and United Nations Development Programme Advisor in Cambodia. Dr Mujeri has extensive research experience in different areas of economics, especially in development economics, poverty and macro policy analysis, and application of modelling and quantitative techniques in development issues. Wahiduddin Mahmud (PhD in economics, Cambridge University, 1978) has recently retired as professor of economics at Dhaka University, Bangladesh. He is currently a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy (UN CDP), and a Country Advisor to International Growth Centre at the London School of Economics. He is a founder and former Chairman of PKSF, the apex microfinance funding institution in Bangladesh. His books include: Adjustment and Beyond: The Reform Experience in South Asia, Handbook on the South Asian Economies, Seasonality of Hunger and Public Policies and The Theory and Practice of Microcredit (forthcoming).

Reviews

An interesting and informative collection of essays on South Asian economies by a range of contributors with high academic reputation, the volume contains interesting analysis and excellent material on a variety of subjects from financial crisis to overseas workers remittances, from climate change to trade in health care services. The book has relevance much beyond South Asia for countries at a similar stage of development and is warmly recommended to anyone interested in development problems and policies. M.G. Quibria Professor of Economics, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA."

"An interesting and informative collection of essays on South Asian economies by a range of contributors with high academic reputation, the volume contains interesting analysis and excellent material on a variety of subjects from financial crisis to overseas workers' remittances, from climate change to trade in health care services. The book has relevance much beyond South Asia for countries at a similar stage of development and is warmly recommended to anyone interested in development problems and policies." --M.G. Quibria Professor of Economics, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.