Nurul Islam

Research Fellow Emeritus, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Research field: Economics - Agricultural Economics
Agricultural food security, poverty reduction, international trade, development economics

Publications

Journal Article (3)
- Nurul Islam (2010) "Reflections on Governance and Development", 1-9. In Journal of Bangladesh Studies 12 (2).
  http://www.bdiusa.org/publications/jb...
- Nurul Islam (2010) "The army, UN peacekeeping mission and democracy in Bangladesh", 77-85. In Economic & Political Weekly 45 (29).
  http://epw.in/epw/uploads/articles/14...
- Nurul Islam (2004) "Indo-Bangladesh economic relations", 4069-4075. In Economic & Political Weekly 39 (36, Sep 4-10).
  http://www.jstor.org/pss/4415508
Book (2)
- Nurul Islam (2005) "Reducing rural poverty in Asia: Challenges and opportunities for microenterprises and public employment schemes". In Haworth Press, Inc..
  http://books.google.com/books?id=jbRW...
- Nurul Islam (2004) "Looking outward: Bangladesh in the world economy". In The University Press Limited.
  http://www.uplbooks.com.bd/index.php/...
Generic (1)
- Nurul Islam (2010) "The world economic crisis and the lessons for developing countries: Acceptance speech delivered in Dhaka, on March 31, 2010, at the Bangladesh Bank Award Ceremony".
  https://files.me.com/vckl5/9dqjwx
Book Section (1)
- Nurul Islam (2005) "Rural nonfarm microenterprise: Salient features and issues". In Reducing rural poverty in Asia: Challenges and opportunities for microenterprises and public employment schemes.
  http://books.google.com/books?id=dEX0...
Working Paper (3)
- Nurul Islam (2011) "Foreign aid to agriculture: Review of facts and analysis".
  http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/fi...
- Nurul Islam (2010) "Role of Experts in Policy Advice: Lessons of Experience".
  http://www.bids.org.bd/files/Pr_Nurul...
- Nurul (ed.) Islam (2008) "Reducing poverty and hunger in Asia".
  http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/fi...
Newspaper Article (1)
- Nurul Islam (2012) Six-Points Programme or Independence?. In The Daily Star (March 26).
  http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign...

Awards and Grants

Mar 2010

Bangladesh Bank Award 2009 for outstanding contribution in the field of agricultural food security

Biographical Information

Nurul Islam of Bangladesh joined IFPRI as a senior policy adviser to the director general in 1987. He is currently a research fellow emeritus. Prior to this he was the assistant director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, Economic and Social Policy Department, deputy chairman of the Bangladesh Planning Commission, chairman of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, and chairman of the Department of Economics at Dhaka University. Islam received a B.A. and an M.A. in economics from Dhaka University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

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Professional Experience

1994 - Present

Research Fellow Emeritus at International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Dec 1987 - Apr 1994

Senior Policy Adviser at IFPRI
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Dec 1977 - Dec 1987

Assistant Director General, Economic and Social Policy Department at Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
Rome, Italy

Dec 1975 - Dec 1977

Fellow at St. Anthony's college, Oxford University, and Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

Dec 1972 - Dec 1975

Deputy Chairman/Minister at Bangladesh Planning Commission, Government of Bangladesh
Dhāka, Bangladesh

Apr 1971 - Dec 1971

Professorial Research Associate at Economic Growth Center, Yale University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Dec 1971 - Dec 1975

Founder Director and Chairman at Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)
Dhāka, Bangladesh

Dec 1971 - Dec 1972

Director at Bangladesh Institute of Development Economics
Dhāka, Bangladesh

Apr 1968 - Dec 1968

Professorial Research Associate at Economic Growth Center, Yale University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Aug 1967 - Apr 1968

Visiting Professor at Economic Development Institute, World Bank
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Dec 1964 - Dec 1970

Director at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)
Karāchi, Pakistan

Dec 1962 - Dec 1964

Chairman, Department of Economics at Dhaka University
Dhāka, Bangladesh

Dec 1960 - Dec 1964

Professor in Economics at Dhaka University
Dhāka, Bangladesh

Dec 1959 - Dec 1959

Rockefeller Fellow at Netherlands School of Economics
Rotterdam, Netherlands

Dec 1958 - Dec 1959

Nuffield Foundation Fellow at London School of Economics and Dept of Applied Economics, Cambridge University, UK
London, United Kingdom

Education

Dec 1955 - Dec 1955

Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Ph.D. (Economics)

Dec 1953 - Dec 1953

Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
M.A. (Economics)

Dec 1950 - Dec 1951

Dhaka University in Dhāka, Bangladesh
M.A. (Economics)

Dec 1945 - Dec 1949

Dhaka University in Dhāka, Bangladesh
B.A. (Hons. in Economics)

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http://www.ifpri.org/staffprofile/nurul-islam

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