Akhand Akhtar Hossain
This paper provides a historical overview of the emerging post-Islamist phenomenon in the Muslim world and discusses the scope for sustainable democratic politics in Bangladesh. In the process, a model is proposed that purports to exhibit a level of compatibility with the perceived political landsca...
Akhand Akhtar Hossain
In Bangladesh, the resurgence of Islam is not synonymous with Islamic militancy. Islamic militancy grew in frequency and intensity between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, but as a transitory phenomenon on the periphery of Bangladeshi life and society. It arose for two main reasons. First, it is the...
Akhand Akhtar Hossain
Akhand Akhtar Hossain
This paper develops the theme that the ongoing political polarization and political crisis in Bangladesh since its independence from Pakistan in 1971 reflect the fundamental weaknesses of the pillars of Bangladeshi society and national identity. The paper adopts an historical approach to explain why...
Akhand Akhtar Hossain
This article provides an overview of the trends and movements of CPI-inflation in Bangladesh since the early 1950s and examines the key issues in rule-based monetary policy for price stability, implying low and stable inflation, in this country. Under a fixed exchange rate system, inflation in Bangl...
Akhand Akhtar Hossain
This paper investigates the trends and movements of agricultural prices, industrial prices and the agricultural terms of trade in Bangladesh with annual data for the period 1952–2006. The ADF and KPSS tests results suggest that both agricultural and industrial prices have a unit root while the agric...
Akhand Akhtar Hossain
This paper develops a macroeconomic model with tradable and nontradable goods and then analyses the movement of both the real exchange rate and trade balance in Bangladesh for the period 1973-1996. Statistical data show that a sustained economic growth of about 4.5 per cent per annum since the mid-1...
Akhand Akhtar Hossain
This paper provides an overview of recent developments in rural labour markets in Bangladesh and also examines the trends and movements of agricultural productivity and real wages with annual data for the period 1950-2006. The paper links the movements of agricultural real wages to macroeconomic dev...
Akhand Akhtar Hossain
Thsi paper develops and estimates a real wage model for the agricultural sector in Bangladesh for the period 1973:2–1985:4. The model is developed within the framework of the market theory of labour demand and labour supply. The empirical results are supportive of the market theory of wages.
Akhand Akhtar Hossain
This paper estimates a quarterly short run money demand model for Bangladesh for the 1976q4-89q1 period and tests for its stability. Real income, interest rate and the expected rate of inflation are found to be the major determinants of money demand in Bangladesh. Both the Chow and CUSUM and CUSUMSQ...
Akhand Akhtar Hossain
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Akhand Akhtar Hossain
Although the Indian media’s claim that Bangladesh is well on the way to becoming a ‘failed state’ is not consistent with the latter’s economic, social and political record since 1971, it makes sense when such propaganda is interpreted as part of an Indian strategy to undermine Bangladesh’s existence...
Akhand Akhtar Hossain
Akhand Akhtar Hossain, Meherun Nessa, Abdul Kafi
The study explores the challenges of teaching English language at the schools of primary level in Bangladesh. In recent years, the Government of Bangladesh has worked to implement a language policy to foster a communicative approach to English language teaching (ELT) at the primary level in the Bang...
Akhand Akhtar Hossain
This paper offers a critical analysis of creeping authoritarianism in Bangladesh’s culture and politics. Political events since the 1940s that have shaped the presently unstable state of Bangladesh’s society are interpreted specifically in terms of their cultural and political significance. One impo...