Nurul Islam
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Research field: Economics - Agricultural Economics
Agricultural food security, poverty reduction, international trade, development economics
Publications
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Journal Article (5)
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Nurul Islam (2010) "Reflections on Governance and Development", 1-9. In Journal of Bangladesh Studies 12 (2).
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Nurul Islam (2010) "The army, UN peacekeeping mission and democracy in Bangladesh", 77-85. In Economic & Political Weekly 45 (29).
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Nurul Islam (2004) "Indo-Bangladesh economic relations", 4069-4075. In Economic & Political Weekly 39 (36, Sep 4-10).
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Nurul Islam (1999) Reflections on democracy and development in Bangladesh, 1-6. In Journal of Bangladesh Studies 1 (1).
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Nurul Islam (1997) Hunger, famines, and poverty: A few considerations of political economy, 27-36. In Asia-Pacific Development Journal 4 (1).
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Book (4)
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Nurul Islam (2005) "Reducing rural poverty in Asia: Challenges and opportunities for microenterprises and public employment schemes". In Haworth Press, Inc..
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Nurul Islam (2004) "Looking outward: Bangladesh in the world economy". In The University Press Limited.
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Nurul Islam (2004) Making of a nation, Bangladesh: An economist's tale. In The University Press Unlimited.
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Nurul Islam (2003) Exploration in development issues: Selected articles of Nurul Islam. In Ashgate Publishing.
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Generic (6)
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Nurul Islam (2012) Thoughts on Microfinance and All That.
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Nurul Islam (1998) Growth, poverty, human development in Pakistan.
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Book Section (1)
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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.
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Working Paper (4)
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Nurul (ed.) Islam (2008) "Reducing poverty and hunger in Asia".
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Carlo del Ninno; Paul A. Dorosh; and Nurul Islam (2002) Reducing vulnerability to natural disasters: Lessons from the 1998 floods in Bangladesh, 98-107.
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Web Page (1)
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Nurul Islam (2011) Experts and economic policymaking. In East Asia Forum.
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Newspaper Article (1)
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Nurul Islam (2012) Six-Points Programme or Independence?. In The Daily Star (March 26).
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Awards and Grants
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Mar 2010Bangladesh 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
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Dec 1987 - Apr 1994
Senior Policy Adviser at IFPRI
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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
Rome, Italy
Dec 1975 - Dec 1977
Fellow at St. Anthony's college, Oxford University, and Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford, United Kingdom
Dec 1972 - Dec 1975
Deputy Chairman/Minister at Bangladesh Planning Commission, Government of Bangladesh
Dhāka, Bangladesh
Dhāka, Bangladesh
Apr 1971 - Dec 1971
Professorial Research Associate at Economic Growth Center, Yale University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Dec 1971 - Dec 1975
Founder Director and Chairman at Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)
Dhāka, Bangladesh
Dhāka, Bangladesh
Dec 1971 - Dec 1972
Director at Bangladesh Institute of Development Economics
Dhāka, Bangladesh
Dhāka, Bangladesh
Apr 1968 - Dec 1968
Professorial Research Associate at Economic Growth Center, Yale University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Aug 1967 - Apr 1968
Visiting Professor at Economic Development Institute, World Bank
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Dec 1964 - Dec 1970
Director at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)
Karāchi, Pakistan
Karāchi, Pakistan
Dec 1962 - Dec 1964
Chairman, Department of Economics at DHAKA UNIVERSITY
Dhāka, Bangladesh
Dhāka, Bangladesh
Dec 1960 - Dec 1964
Professor in Economics at DHAKA UNIVERSITY
Dhāka, Bangladesh
Dhāka, Bangladesh
Dec 1959 - Dec 1959
Rockefeller Fellow at Netherlands School of Economics
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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
London, United Kingdom
Education
Dec 1955 - Dec 1955
Harvard University
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Ph.D. (Economics)
Ph.D. (Economics)
Dec 1953 - Dec 1953
Harvard University
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
M.A. (Economics)
M.A. (Economics)
Dec 1950 - Dec 1951
DHAKA UNIVERSITY
in Dhāka, Bangladesh
M.A. (Economics)
M.A. (Economics)
Dec 1945 - Dec 1949
DHAKA UNIVERSITY
in Dhāka, Bangladesh
B.A. (Hons. in Economics)
B.A. (Hons. in Economics)
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