ÐÏà¡±á>þÿ <>þÿÿÿ;ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿì¥Á'` ð¿a)bjbj{P{P 4.::ù%ÿÿÿÿÿÿ¤(8DX(Íjxx"ššš‘ ‘ ‘ $7hŸR6QÂ ‘ ‘ Â Â 6šš÷‡„„„Â –šš„Â „„„šl ‘d¬PËXp„ì$0Í„ñÈdñ„ñ„h‘ ¡ Â„cœÿÃ‘ ‘ ‘ 66,X‘ ‘ ‘ ÍÂ Â Â Â (((ä((((((ÿÿÿÿAbul Barakat Professor and Chair, Economics Department, University of Dhaka Bangladesh Tel: 8116972, 9661516, 01713069154; Email: hdrc.bd@gmail.com, hdrc@bangla.net Abul Barkat (55), Ph.D, is currently a Professor and Chairperson of Department of Economics, University of Dhaka. He joined the Economics Department, University of Dhaka in 1982. Due to his academic excellence coupled with high quality research and publications in the diverse fields of economics he became a full Professor at a very young age of 35 years. In recognition of his groundbreaking research works in economic sciences, Dr. Barkat received many awards, the most recent being the Justice Ibrahim Memorial Gold Medal awarded by the University of Dhaka in 2007. Prof Barakat did his PhD. in Economics (specialized in Political Economy of Development) from Moscow Institute of National Economy (MINE, Pleakhanov Institute) in1982. And obtained M.Sc in Economics (specialized in Trade Economics) in1978 (obtained First Class with Honors with excellent grades in all courses). Professor Barkat is regarded as one of the most reputed political economists in the fields of economic development, investment climate, foreign direct investment, human development, energy-electricity and poverty analysis. He is one of the most influential civil society personalities and the most prominent media personalities known for his critical views about macroeconomics and political economy of development in Bangladesh. He has earned a reputation of an economist with difference for his strenuous search for objective truth in the social, economic, and political life in Bangladesh. Prof Barakat’s professional interest lies in Macroeconomics; Fiscal and monetary policies; Political economy of development and human development; Energy, development and poverty reduction; Land-water-energy and development nexus; Human rights and right to development including marginalized people; Policy research; Financing and evaluation; Cost and sustainability analyses; Assessment and evaluation of management system; Operations research (OR); Primary health care; Human resource development; Evaluation studies and needs assessments of social sectors, rural development; Women in development; Social sector strategic planning; Economics of fundamentalism; Regional energy trade and energy security; Consensus-building processes (facilitation, workshop, etc.); Negotiations (bilateral and multilateral) in the field of population and development (e.g., ICPD+5 within G77 and the UN General Assembly). He has produced over 350 high quality research works including 16 research-based books, 81 journal articles, 154 monographs, and 115 papers for national and international conferences. Professor Barkat's research interest, thoughts and writings cover a wide spectrum of development discourse: economic development; investment climate including foreign direct investment; industrial financing; human development; human right and women's right; fundamentalism and secularism; right to development of the religious minorities and indigenous peoples; land and water right; policy research; health-population-education and poverty reduction nexus; globalization and development; electricity and poverty reduction; energy and human development; national budget and poverty; diseases of poverty; welfare economics; microfinance and right to credit and development; socio-economic consequences of arsenic poisoning in drinking water; urbanization, landlessness and rural poverty; population projection; youth poverty; poverty among older people; energizing Millennium Development Goals; and so on. Professor Barkat is credited with many pioneering research-based books dealing with Macroeconomics and economic development, human deprivation, poverty, exclusion, and rights-based development. A few recent ones are: (1) Development as Conscientization (published in 2008), (2) Deprivation of Hindu Minority in Bangladesh: Living with Vested Property (2008), (3) Charland in Bangladesh: Political Economy of Ignored Resources (2007), (4) Political Economy of Land Litigation in Bangladesh: A Case of Colossal National Wastage (2004), (5) Political Economy of Khas Land In Bangladesh (2001, 2009), and (6) Economics of Fundamentalism in Bangladesh (2005, 2008). Prof Barakat is a prolific creative writer on issues related to political economy of development in the national "dailies". He has published a series of articles in the national dailies of Bangladesh on the following: Political economy of development (including criminalization of economy and politics); Famine and demographic explosion; Globalization, foreign aid and human development linkages; Land-Agrarian-Aquarian reforms; Social changes; Global problematique; Economic consequences of Arsenic poisoning in drinking water; Black money in Bangladesh; Political economy of national budget; Investment climate analysis; Agriculture under globalization and WTO; Agrarian mode of production; Mode of production debate; Human deprivation and development; Self employment in Bangladesh; Cause and effect of price hike in Bangladesh; Poverty among youth and adolescent; Political economy of Vested Property Act; Economics of Khas Land; Political economy of human deprivation; Governance; Gender and development; Political economy of land litigation; and Constitution and development. Professor Barkat is highly respected for his inherent power of observation of emerging issues having far reaching consequences, and more so, for his proactive participation in the change process itself. In Bangladesh, he is the first economist to study the economic and social consequences of arsenic poisoning in drinking water coming up with the conclusion that “arsenicosis is a diseases of poverty”. He took an integral part in the Sono-Filter innovation (with his elder brother Prof. Abul Hussam, USA) which received the 2007-Million Dollar Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability awarded by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE –USA). 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