These are commissioned projects I have worked on for research institutes, development agencies and public bodies, with a short note on what each one involved.
I am currently working with the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies and the Microcredit Regulatory Authority. Earlier I worked with Bangladesh Bank, and on Asian Development Bank and World Bank–financed assignments.
Building a macroeconometric framework that brings together the main macroeconomic series and their estimated relationships, so that alternative developments and policy scenarios can be examined in one coherent setting rather than argued about in isolation.
Branch and institution-level administrative records used to look at borrowing intensity, repayment stress and portfolio quality, and to work out where financial vulnerability is building up quietly enough to be missed.
A comparative study of public debt and the institutions around it, asking how financing structures and political constraints shape both debt outcomes and the policy room a government has left.
Economic analysis contributed to the assessment that followed the 2022 flash floods, covering losses, recovery needs and the wider economic consequences.
An examination of where export growth might come from beyond the established sectors, using sector and product evidence to narrow a long list down to candidates worth studying properly.
Joint work linking hydrological modelling to economic valuation along the Jamuna, in support of appraising river management options.
Analysis of food security and agricultural support in a small, import-dependent economy, including work on subsidy design and household food expenditure.