Nurul Islam
Encyclopedia
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.
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.
Economics
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(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
United Nations
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Food and Agricultural Organization, and Advisor and later Emeritus Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
He held several visiting academic appointments at Yale
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and Cambridge
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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
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
from Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
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).