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Mahabub Hossain, Firdousi Naher, Quazi Shahabuddin, Hossain, Mahabub et al.

For Bangladesh food security was synonymous with achieving self-sufficiency in rice production and stabilization in rice prices. The country has made good progress in increasing rice production through technological progress, facilitated by private sector investment in small scale irrigation. But, i...

Quazi Shahabuddin, Stuart Mestelman, David Feeny

Journal Article PEASANT BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS RISK AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FARM HOUSEHOLDS IN BANGLADESH Get access QUAZI SHAHABUDDIN, QUAZI SHAHABUDDIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar STUART MESTELMAN, STUART MESTELMAN Search for oth...

Paul A. Dorosh, Carlo del Ninno, Quazi Shahabuddin

Quazi Shahabuddin, Paul A. Dorosh, Shahabuddin, Quazi, Dorosh, Paul A.

This study uses data from 1996/97 through 1998/99 to examine the relative efficiency of production of crops in Bangladesh and their comparative advantage in international trade as measured by net economic profitability (the profitability using economic, rather than financial costs and prices), and t...

Paul A. Dorosh, Quazi Shahabuddin, Dorosh, Paul A., Shahabuddin, Quazi

To meet its overall objective of ensuring food security for all households, the Government of Bangladesh undertakes several activities: it intervenes in markets to stabilize prices, targets food distribution to poor households and provides emergency relief after natural disasters. This paper provide...

Quazi Shahabuddin, Zulfıqar Ali

* About the Editors * Contributors * Foreword (Joachim von Braun, Isher Judge Alhuwalia, and Mangala Rai) * Acknowledgments * Introduction. Economic Reforms and Food Security in South Asia: An Overview of the Issues and Challenges (Suresh Chandra Babu and Ashok Gulati) * Background * Outline of the ...

Quazi Shahabuddin, Stuart Mestelman

A sample of smallholding farmers in the Pabna region of Bangladesh provide data to test predictions of a safety‐first model and of a profit maximisation model of farmer behaviour. Of the two sets of predictions, the data tend to support those of the safety‐first model more frequently than they suppo...

Nazneen Ahmed, Zaid Bakht, Paul A. Dorosh, Quazi Shahabuddin

Bangladesh has substantially liberalized
\n its trade and agricultural pricing policies since
\n independence in 1971, removing most distortions to
\n agricultural incentives by the mid-1990s. Although trade
\n protection for some agricultural and industrial products has
\n incre...

Quazi Shahabuddin

The paper examines comparative advantage of different crops using two indicators-net economic profitability and domestic resource cost ratio. The profitability estimates and estimated domestic cost ratio suggest that except for a few import-competing crops. Bangladesh has comparative advantage in pr...

Quazi Shahabuddin, Mostafa Ali Reza Hossain, B. A. A. Mustafi, Josephine Narciso

Quazi Shahabuddin

A large number of the people in Bangladesh are deprived of basic economic and social rights. The poor in Bangladesh do not even meet the minimum nutritional requirement to maintain a healthy body. Hence, poverty in Bangladesh, as elsewhere, is synonymous with hunger and malnutrition. An attempt has ...

Quazi Shahabuddin, M. Asaduzzaman, Edward Clay, Steve Jones

This Policy Brief discusses the policy options for improving effectiveness of price support, domestic procurement programme and public stock management in Bangladesh. It has been funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). [Number-0902] URL: [http://bids.org.bd/files/pb2.pdf]

Mustafa K. Mujeri, Quazi Shahabuddin, S. Bhattacharya Ahmed

Quazi Shahabuddin, Atiqur Rahman

Since the liberation of Bangladesh, the government of Bangladesh introduced a series of policy measures in agriculture and food sectors to encourage pro-market distribution of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and diesel fuel for irrigation. The dominant feature of the policy reform had been the govern...

Paul A. Dorosh, Quazi Shahabuddin, Md Abdul Aziz, Naser Farid

Food aid has played a useful role in Government of Bangladesh efforts to increase food security in the last three decades, adding to foodgrain availability, supplying wheat for targeted distribution to poor households, and helping to finance development projects and programs. However, sustained incr...

Sajjad Zohir, Quazi Shahabuddin, Md Moazzem Hossain

Quazi Shahabuddin, Sajjad Zohir

The shape of development in the medium to long-term is most likely to be influenced in a significant way by the dynamics of food grain demand-supply balance in the country. A consistent framework for projection of medium and long-term demand and supply of food grains in Bangladesh has, therefore, be...

Zulfıqar Ali, Sharifa Begum, marium naeem khan, Quazi Shahabuddin