This book is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Mahabub Hossain, a highly respected scholar and researcher who was Bangladesh's best-known expert in agricultural economics and rural development. It draws upon a commemorative volume put together by his colleagues, friends and admirers drawn from Bangladesh and other parts of South Asia. The Bangladeshi contributors have written on Bangladesh's fast changing rural context while others have written either on the Indian experience or taken a broader pan-South Asian view. The topics span a large canvas but are joined together with a common refrain around agriculture and rural development.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:  The Transformation of Bangladesh’s Agriculture  

Azizur Rahman Khan

Chapter 2:  Agricultural and Food Policy Framework in Bangladesh: An Assessment       

Quazi Shahabuddin and Atiqur Rahman

Chapter 3:   Indian Agriculture after Liberalisation                                  

Abhijit Sen and Jayati Ghosh

Chapter 4:   Determinants of Adoption of Rice Yield Gap Minimisation Technology in Bangladesh        

 M. Asaduzzaman and Asif Reza Anik

Chapter 5:    Bangladesh Experience in Rural Development: The Success and Failure of the Various Models Used

 Kazi Ali Toufique

Chapter 6:    Smallholder Agriculture and Inclusive Rural Transformation

                    Atiqur Rahman

Chapter 7:   Addressing the Structural Sources of Risk and Vulnerability for the Resource Poor

                    Rehman Sobhan

Chapter 8:   Is Microcredit a Debt Trap for the Poor? Sifting Reality from Myth   

                    S. R. Osmani

Chapter 9:    Remittances and Poverty: A Comparison of Bangladesh and Pakistan, 2000–2016   

                    Rashid Amjad

Chapter 10: Structural Transformation and Absorption of Surplus Labour

                    Rizwanul Islam

Chapter 11: Changes in the Situation of Agricultural Labourers in Bangladesh

                    Rushidan Islam Rahman

Chapter 12: Is There an Economics of Social Business?

                    Wahiduddin Mahmud