Wahiduddin Mahmud 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).