Nurul Islam (economist)

This article is about the economist. For the broadcaster, see Nurul Islam (broadcaster).

Nurul Islam was successively Professor of Economics, Dhaka University, Director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (later Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies), Deputy Chairman of the first Planning Commission of Bangladesh. From 1975 onwards he was a Fellow at St. Antony's College at Oxford University, Assistant Director General of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, and Advisor and later Emeritus Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.^[1]

He held several visiting academic appointments at Yale and Cambridge Universities and both the London and the Netherlands School of Economics. He was a member and later the Chairman of the UN Committee of Development Planning Policy.

Islam is noted for his part in the independence war of Bangladesh from Pakistan in the early seventies.

Selected works

• Development Planning in Bangladesh: A Study in Political Economy (UPL, 1979, reprint 1993)
• Development Strategy of Bangladesh (Pergamon, 1978)
• Foodgrain Price Stabilization in Developing Countries: Issues and Experiences in Asia (IFPRI, 1996)
• Exploration in Development Issues: Selected Articles of Nurul Islam (Ashgate, 2003).

References

1. ^ Nurul Islam Research Fellow Emeritus Director General's Office

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