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Rashadur Rahman

Present Designation
Assistant Professor
Department
Economics
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Area of Interest

Environmental and resource economics, wetland management, water economics, climate change vulnerability

Biography

Mr. Rashadur Rahman is committed to the teaching profession and working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Economics at Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Mymensingh). He has completed his M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He also completed his B.S.S (Hons.) degree in Economics from Khulna University and master’s in Environmental Economics from Dhaka School of Economics (University of Dhaka). His research interests: environmental economics and policy, water quality valuation, natural resource governance and management, water governance, climate change vulnerability and adaptation, agricultural economics, and sustainable development, etc.

 

Recent Academic achievement 

M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics 

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics 

University of Saskatchewan, Canada 

Thesis: Economic Value of Water Quality Improvements in Ontario 

 

Recent publications 

2018 

Kabir, M.E, and Davey, P., Hossain, M., and Rahman, R. (2018) Meeting Basic Needs of Internal Migrants in the Slums of Dhaka:A Temporal Account at Places of Origin and Places of Destination. International Journal of Food, Nutrition and Public Health, 10 (1), pp. 16-27.  

 

2017
Rahman, R. et al. (2017) FDI Fostering LDC and Emerging Economies-Fact or Myth: An Investigation on Bangladesh. Journal of Commerce and Accounting Research, 6(1), pp.10-25. 


2016
Rahman, R., Kabir, M.E. and Islam, S.S. (2016) A Critical Evaluation of Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) from the Perspective of Ecological Overshoot and Income Differences. JKKNIU Journal of Social Science, 1(1).  

2015
Rahman, R., Nasrin, N. and Islam, S.S. (2015) Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh: Evaluation of Consumption Change and Poverty Gap. African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development, Vol. 4 (4), pp. 341-352.  

 

Honors and awards 

Graduate Student Stipend (40,000 CAD)
Project- Environmental and resource economics with a focus on water 
 
Harris and Lauretta and Raymond Earl Parr Memorial Scholarships in Agriculture (2018/2019) (5,000 CAD) 
Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan 
 
Saskatchewan Innovation & Opportunity Scholarship (2018) (16,000 CAD) 
Provincial government and University of Saskatchewan Ongoing Research Activities 
Economic valuation of lake water quality improvements in Ontario 

Experience
Assistant Professor
May 2018 to Onward
Department of Economics,
Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University,
Trishal, Mymensingh-2220, Bangladesh.  Research Assistant 
September 2018 to August 2020 
Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS) 
University of Saskatchewan, Canada. 

Lecturer
January 2016 to May 2018
Department of Economics,
Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University,
Trishal, Mymensingh-2220, Bangladesh. 

 Lecturer
January 2015 – January 2016
Department of Business Administration, North Western University, Khulna, Bangladesh. 

 Research Assistant
March 2013 -February 2015
Dhaka School of Economics (DScE), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Email: rashadur_ku@jkkniu.edu.bd

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