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1 Short CV Dr. Binayak Sen cell: +(88) ; office: +(88-02) ; office address: Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), E-17 Agargaon, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh. Section 1: Academic and Professional Background 1.1 Education and Training Binayak Sen is currently a Research Director of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) the premier public think-tank of the country. He has obtained his MA in Economics from the Moscow Lomonosov State University in 1982, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, in He was awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Research Administration Department of the World Bank in He has international development experience, having worked on development problems of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka as a regular staff member at the World Bank (Senior Economist based in Washington D.C.) during , and also as a long-term World Bank Consultant during working with the Operations Evaluation Department (then- known as OED) and, later, with the Research Department of the Bank. At the World Bank, he was trained through a number of short-courses such as Using Stata with Modern Econometrics; Growth Diagnostics; Economics of Poverty; Issues and Perspectives in Program Evaluation; Macromodelling and Structural Adjustment; Macroeconomic Adjustment and Growth; and Fiscal Federalism in Developing Countries. He also attended a course on The Cutting Edge of Development Thinking a development economics course designed for the Senior Executives of the World Bank--organized by the Kennedy School of Government of the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in May Participation in National Policy Making Binayak has played an active role in various high-level national committees and commissions for the government of Bangladesh during the last two decades. He has been a Member of the Panel of Economists of the Sixth Five Year Plan of Bangladesh ( ), Member of the Public Expenditure Review Commission ( ), and Lead Consultant for the preparation of the Interim PRSP ( ). He was a Member of the Macroeconomic Consultative Committee to the Ministry of Finance a Consultative Body to the Finance Minister, Govt. of Bangladesh during Binayak was involved in various technical committees to support the work of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), Govt. of Bangladesh. This includes (a) Member, Technical Committee on the Quality of National Statistical Publications (2000); (b) Member, Technical Committee on Household Expenditure Survey ( ); (c) Member, Task Force on Action Plan to Strengthen Collection of Economic and Social Data of Bangladesh Bureau 1

2 of Statistics set up by the Adviser for Ministry of Planning of the Caretaker Government, Government of Bangladesh (1996); Member Secretary, Task Force on Poverty Alleviation set up by the Adviser for Ministry of Planning of the Caretaker Government, Government of Bangladesh (1991). 1.3 Teaching Binayak was also actively involved in teaching. He has taught development economics at the undergraduate level in BRAC University (2003), North-South University ( ), Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of the National University ( ), and Dhaka University (Department of Journalism, 1999). 1.4 Other Academic Responsibilities He is currently the Associate Editor of the Bangladesh Development Studies the leading journal on development economics in Bangladesh (the journal is available and archived in JSTOR). He served earlier as the founding Executive Editor of the Bengali popular quarterly Protichinta (Counter-Thought) on social, political and economic issues, published at the behest of the leading Bengali Daily Prothom Alo in Bangladesh during He acts as a peer reviewer for journals such as Journal of Development Studies, World Development, Bangladesh Development Studies, and Journal of International Development. 1.5 Award For his contribution to research on development problems of Bangladesh he has been awarded the Mercantile Bank Bangladesh award in the field of development economics in Research Areas His major areas of research include inclusive development, chronic poverty, income inequality, middle class, human development, labor market, social protection, economic history, and political economy. He has published more than 40 research papers in peer reviewed journals and/or as chapters in edited books. In his professional career, he has led over 15 research projects in the above-mentioned areas. 1.7 Language and Programming Skills Binayak knows several languages including Bengali, English and Russian. He is familiar with the modern econometric techniques and can work independently with programming tools such as STATA and SPSS. Section 2: Publication Record Over the past decade he has led, on behalf of BIDS, several multidisciplinary research teams that produced major flagship reports on Bangladesh for national and international agencies. These, among others, include Fighting Human Poverty: Bangladesh Human Development Report (2001) and Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh: Tales of Ascent, Descent, Marginality and Persistence (2006). 2

3 He has co-authored papers with distinguished academics and experts in the field of development economics and his papers have been published in peer-reviewed economic journals and in books from peer-reviewed international publishing houses in the broad areas of development economics. He is interested in mix-methods and multidisciplinary research in the broad area of development and keen in working with diverse disciplinary backgrounds and approaches. A selection of his published papers is given below. I. Growth and Inequality Issues 1. "Low Accumulation, High Vulnerability and Greater Exclusions: Why the Chronically Poor Cannot Escape Poverty in Bangladesh, or Elsewhere in South Asia." Chronic Poverty: Concepts, Causes and Policy. Ed. Andrew Shepherd and Julia Brunt. Palgrave McMillan, 2013 (with Zulfiqar Ali). 2. Inequality in Rural Bangladesh in the 2000s: Trends and Causes, The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 34, No. 4, December 2011, pp (with S.R. Osmani). 3. Human Capital, Urbanization, and Ethnicity: Analysis of Regional Inequality in Sri Lanka in Development, Equity and Poverty: Essays in Honour of Azizur Rahman Khan (Eds. Rizwanul Islam, Anirban Das and Lopamudra Banerjee), Macmillan India, Explaining Pro-Poor Growth in Bangladesh: Puzzles, Evidence, and Implications in Timothy Besley and Louise J. Cord (eds.), Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth, Palgrave Macmillan and World Bank, 2007, pp (with Mustafa K. Mujeri and Quazi Shahabuddin). 5. The Structure and Distribution of Personal Income and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Bangladesh during the 1990s in James K. Boyce et al (eds.), Human Development in the Era of Globalization. Essays in Honor of Keith B. Griffin, Edward Elgar, 2006, pp (with A.R. Khan). 6. Inequality and Its Sources in Bangladesh, 1991/92 to 1995/96: An Analysis Based on Household Expenditure Surveys, The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 27, No.1, March 2001, pp Economic Growth in Bangladesh, in Kirit Parikh (ed.), Explaining Economic Growth in South Asia, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2006 (with Mustafa K. Mujeri). 8. Markets and Long-Term Economic Growth in South Asia in Isher Judge Ahluwalia and John Williamson (eds.), The South Asian Experience with Growth, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, January 2003, pp (with Suresh Tendulker). 9. Growth and Distribution of Rural Income in Bangladesh, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 35, December 2000, pp (with Mahabub Hossain and Hossain Zillur Rahman). 10. "Rural Non-farm Sector in Bangladesh: Stagnating and Residual, or Dynamic and Potential", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 24, Nos. 3 &4, September- December 1996, pp

4 11. Poverty, Inequality and Growth, ESP Discussion Paper Series No. 70, Education and Social Policy Department, World Bank, Washington, D.C., June 1995 (with Lionel Demery and Tara Vishwanath). 12. Privatization in Bangladesh: Process, Dynamics and Implications". In: V. Kanesalingam (Ed.), Privatization Trends and Experiences in South Asia, Macmillan India, Trends in the Repayment Performance to the DFIs: Implications for the Development of Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, September 1989, pp (with Rehman Sobhan). 14. The Social Background of Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh: An Occupational Profile of Borrowers from the DFIs, Research Report 71, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), 1988 (with Rehman Sobhan). II. Human Development Issues 15. Do Water and Sanitation Interventions Reduce Childhood Diarrhea? New Evidence from Bangladesh, The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XXXIV, No. 3, September 2011 (with Sharifa Begum and Mansur Ahmed). 16. Maternal Health, Child Well-Being and Chronic Poverty: Does Women s Agency Matter?, The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XXXII, No. 4, December 2009 (with Sharifa Begum). 17. Spatial Inequality in Social Progress in Bangladesh, The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, June 2009 (with Zulfiqar Ali). 18. Causes of Fertility Decline in India and Bangladesh: The Role of Community, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 43, October 26, 2002 (with Mahendra Dev and K.S. James). 19. Growth, Poverty and Human Development in Rounaq Jahan (ed.), Bangladesh: Promise and Performance, University Press Ltd, Dhaka, 2000 (also published from the Zed Press, London). 20. "Health and Poverty in Bangladesh", World Health, No. 5, September-October 1997, pp (with S. Acharya). III. Poverty Issues 21. Dynamics of Poverty in Rural Bangladesh: A Research Framework, Institute of Microfinance Working Paper No. 9, Dhaka, 2011 (with S. R. Osmani). 22. Identifying and Targeting the Extreme Poor: A Methodology for Rural Bangladesh in What Works for the Poorest? Poverty Reduction Programmes for the World s Extreme Poor (Eds. David Lawson, David Hulme, Imran Matin, and Karen Moore), Practical Action Publishing Ltd, Warwickshire, UK, 2010 (with Sharifa Begum). 23. Overview in Moving out of Poverty in India: The Promise of Democracy (Ed. Deepa Narayan), Palgrave Macmillan and World Bank, 2009 (with Katie Hall and Deepa Narayan); 4

5 24. Politics of the Middle Path: Agrarian Reform and Poverty Dynamics in West Bengal in Moving out of Poverty in India: The Promise of Democracy (Ed. Deepa Narayan), Palgrave Macmillan and World Bank, 2009 (with Klaus Deininger and Deepa Narayan). 25. Who Benefits from Conflict? Some Evidence from Assam in Moving out of Poverty in India: The Promise of Democracy (Ed. Deepa Narayan), Palgrave Macmillan and World Bank, 2009 (with Ashutosh Varshney and Deepa Narayan). 26. Pulling Rickshaws in Dhaka City: A Way out of Poverty?, Environment and Urbanization, 2005, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp (with Sharifa Begum); also included in Contemporary Readings in Globalization (Ed. Scott R. Sernau), Chapter 8, pp , Pine Forge Press (A Sage Publications Company), California, Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh: Tales of Ascent, Descent, Marginality and Persistence. The State of the Poorest 2005/2006, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), University of Manchester, Dhaka, 2006 (co-editor. with David Hulme). 28. Drivers of Escape and Descent: Changing Household Fortunes in Rural Bangladesh, World Development, Vol. 31, No. 3, March 2003, pp The Macroeconomics of Poverty Reduction: the Case Study of Bangladesh, Asia- Pacific Regional Programme on Macroeconomics of Poverty Reduction, UNDP, Kathmandu/Dhaka, September 2003, 124p (with Siddiq Osmani, Wahiduddin Mahmud and others). 30. Rethinking Anti-Poverty in Changes and Challenges. A Review of Bangladesh's Development 2000, Centre for Policy Dialogue and University Press Ltd, Dhaka, 2001, pp Changes in Poverty in a Cross-section of Countries" in Abu Abdullah and Azizur Rahman Khan (Ed.), State, Market and Development. Essays in Honour of Rehman Sobhan, University Press Ltd, Dhaka and Sage Publications, Delhi 1996, pp Social Dimensions of Adjustment. World Bank Experience, , World Bank Operations Evaluation Study, World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1996 (with Carl Jayarajah and William Branson). 33. "When Method Matters: Monitoring Poverty in Bangladesh", Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 44, No. 4, July 1996, pp (with Martin Ravallion). 34. "Urban Poverty in Bangladesh: Trends, Determinants and Policy Issues", Asian 5

6 Development Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 1994 (with Wahiduddin Mahmud and others). 35. "Impacts on Rural Poverty of Land-contingent Targeting: Some Further Results for Bangladesh", World Development, Vol. 22, No. 6, June 1994, pp (with Martin Ravallion). 36. Rural Poverty in Bangladesh: Trends and Determinants, Asian Development Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1992, pp (with Mahabub Hossain). 37. "Rural Poverty Trends, 1963/64 to 1989/90" In: Hossain Zillur Rahman and Mahabub Hossain (Ed.), Rethinking Rural Poverty: Bangladesh as a Case Study, SAGE Publications: New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London, 1995, Chapter 3, pp "Selected Living Standard Indicators" In: Hossain Zillur Rahman and Mahabub Hossain (Ed.), Rethinking Rural Poverty: Bangladesh as a Case Study, SAGE Publications: New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London, 1995, Chapter 6, pp "The Poor and the Poorest" In: Hossain Zillur Rahman and Mahabub Hossain (Ed.), Rethinking Rural Poverty: Bangladesh as a Case Study, SAGE Publications: New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London, 1995, Chapter 10, pp Income-Earning Environment of the Poor: Aspects of Dislocation, Adjustment and Mobility" In: Hossain Zillur Rahman and Mahabub Hossain (Ed.), Rethinking Rural Poverty: Bangladesh as a Case Study, SAGE Publications: New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London, 1995, Chapter 12, pp "Determinants of Poverty" In: Hossain Zillur Rahman and Mahabub Hossain (Ed.), Rethinking Rural Poverty: Bangladesh as a Case Study, SAGE Publications: New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London, 1995, Chapter 15, pp (with Mahabub Hossain). IV. Other Topics 42. "Industrial Entrepreneurship in Bengal". In: Sirajul Islam (Ed.), History of Bangladesh, Vol.2 (Economic History), Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, 1992, pp Beyond Nation: A Re-Consideration of Akbar Ali Khan s Discovery of Bangladesh: Explorations into the Dynamics of a Hidden Nation, The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, March 2000, pp Studies in Economic Development of Bangladesh: The Post-Independence Years", In: Anthology of Essays, Bangla Academy, Dhaka, May 1992, pp (in Bangla). 45. "Capitalist Transformation of the Rural Economy: Some Aspects of Marxist Debate in Bangladesh", Samaj Nirikkhon, Vol. 32, Centre for Social Studies, Dhaka, May 1989, pp (in Bangla). 46. Modernization at Bay: Structure and Change in Bangladesh, University Press Ltd., Dhaka, 1991, 159p (with Abu Abdullah, Rita Afsar and Atiur Rahman). 6

7 47. "Reform in China: Economic and Ideological Aspects", Samaj Nirikkhon, Vol. 48, Centre for Social Studies, Dhaka, May 1993, pp (in Bangla). 48. "Exploring the Property Rights: Some Reflections on the Agenda for Public Enterprise Reform in Bangladesh", Journal of Social Studies, Vol. 60, Centre for Social Studies, Dhaka, April 1993, pp Moneylenders and Informal Financial Markets: Insights from Haor Areas of Rural Bangladesh, BIDS Research Report No. 100, BIDS, Dhaka, May 1989, 139p. V. Other Published/ Completed Reports While working at the World Bank (South Asia PREM based in Washington, D.C.) he was involved as Task Manager/ Team Leader of the studies such as (a) Jharkhand: Addressing the Challenges of Inclusive Development (2007); (b) Pakistan Poverty Assessment (2010; draft). He was actively involved as Team Member in the important study on Growth and Development in Lagging Regions of India (2007) and Sri Lanka Lagging Region Report (2009). VII. Recent Work His most recent work includes a chapter on non-income inequality prepared for the UNDP s report entitled Humanity Divided: Confronting Inequality in Developing Countries (forthcoming in January 2014). In 2013, he also prepared a background paper on labor market issues in Bangladesh prepared for the World Development Report 2013: Jobs (along with Mahabub Hossain and Yasuyuki Sawada). The paper is well cited in the Report and expected to be published as part of the compendium volume on country studies in His current research is on studying the development of economic middle class in Dhaka megacity based on a new survey data generated by BIDS as well as successive rounds of HIES generated by BBS. 7

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