Name
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Mohammad Mahfuz Kabir
Designation
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Research Fellow

 
Educational Qualifications
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 PhD in Economics, School of Economics and Finance, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Area(s) of Interrest
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 International trade, regional trading blocs, macroeconomics, economic development, SAARC, BIMSTEC, time series and panel data econometrics, partial and general equilibrium models
Major Publications
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Internationally Refereed Journal

2010. Can Gravity Model Explain BIMSTEC's Trade? Journal of Economic Integration 25(1): 143-165. 2008. Determinants of Life Expectancy in Developing Countries. Journal of Developing Areas 41(2): 185-204.

National Journal

2010. On the Integration of South Asia. BIISS Journal 31(1): 82-100. 2008. On Openness and Economic Growth: Evidence from Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Political Economy 24(1&2): 79-94. 2007. Is Foreign Direct Investment Growth-Enhancing in Bangladesh? BIISS Journal 28(2): 101-119. 2005. Conceptualization and Measurement of Food Security: The Context of Bangladesh. BIISS Journal, 26(1):55-90. 2005. Attaining Millennium Development Goals in South Asia. BIISS Journal, 26(4). 2005. Managing Flood in Bangladesh 2004: Facts and Caveats. Bangladesh Journal of Political Economy, 22(1&2): 143-156.

Proceeding, Monograph and Discussion Paper

2010. Does Bangladesh Benefit from a Preferential Liberalisation? Some Ex Ante Evidence from BIMSTEC FTA. Proceedings (blind refereed), 17th Biennial Conference of Bangladesh Economic Association, Dhaka, 8-10 April. 2006. BIMSTEC-Japan Cooperation in Energy Sector: Vision and Tasks Ahead, research monograph, CSIRD, Kolkata, 2006. 2006. BIMSTEC-Japan Energy Cooperation: Bangladesh Perspective, Discussion Paper 24, CSIRD, Kolkata.

Book Chapter

2007. "Civic Participation in Sub-National Budgeting", in A Shah (ed), Participatory Budgeting, Vol III, World Bank, Washington, DC, pp. 1-29.

2007. BIMSTEC-Japan Energy Cooperation: Bangladesh Perspective. In A.R. Khan (ed.), BIMSTEC-Japan Comprehensive Economic Cooperation: Bangladesh Perspective, New Delhi: Bookwell. 2006: BIMSTEC-Japan Cooperation in Energy Sector: Vision and Tasks Ahead. In C. Bates (ed), Towards BIMSTEC-Japan Comprehensive Economic Cooperation: The Benefits of Moving Together, London/New York: Anthem Press. 2006. "Public Expenditure in Primary Education in Bangladesh", in Hossain Zillur Rahman (ed): Annual Report on Education 2005, Power and Participation Research Centre, Dhaka. 2005. "Education and Development: The Context of Bangladesh", in A Ahsan and AS Abbasi (eds): Education in a Rapidly Changing World: Focus on Bangladesh, Centre for Social Science and Public Policy Research, IUB, Dhaka, April, pp. 32-49. 2004a. "Social Capital and Development", in Abul Kalam (ed), Bangladesh in the New Millennium: A University of Dhaka Study, UPL, Dhaka, pp. 453-468.

Contact Details
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 Phone: 9353808, 8315808, 9336287(Office), Ext: 114;
Fax: 088-02-8312625
E-mail: mahfuz@biiss.org