Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and is currently holding the charge of the Chairman of the Department. He is the Founder-Chairperson of Unnayan Onneshan—a Dhaka based multidisciplinary think-tank, Vice Chairperson of IUCN Asia Regional Members Committee and Chairperson of IUCN National Committee of Bangladesh. His latest books are: Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Developing Countries: State, Citizenship and Transformation (Routledge); State Building and Social Policies in Developing Countries: The Political Economy of Development (Routledge); Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries (Purdue University Press); and Numbers and Narratives in Bangladesh’s Economic Development (Palgrave Macmillan). He edited Sundarbans and Its Ecosystem Services: Traditional Knowledge, Customary Sustainable Useand Community Based Innovation (Palgrave Macmillan) and co-edited COVID-19 and Bangladesh: Response, Rights & Resilience (University Press Ltd).Tanjila Afrin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Development Studies, Bangladesh University of Professionals, Bangladesh. Her research focuses on the political economy of natural resource governance, environment and development, biodiversity conservation, climate change, poverty and inequality, livelihoods, and governance. Mohammad Saeed Islam is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Development Studies, Bangladesh University of Professionals, Bangladesh. His areas of research interest are environmental and resource economics, water economics and policy, environmental protest, agriculture and rural development, poverty and inequality, and welfare economics.
