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This book focuses on the limitations and usefulness of formal techniques of planning in the context of an underdeveloped country like Bangladesh. The treatment of the techniques and processes of annual planning in this book is, in many ways, novel in the available literature on economic planning, especially in terms of a detailed analysis of interactions between plans and implementation from year to year.
Nurul Islam
Professor Nurul Islam is a leading development economist who combines academic excellence with policymaking at the highest level. He has an illustrious career spanning over three decades - Professor at Dhaka University, Founder-Director of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, and Deputy Chairman of the First Planning Commission laying the economic foundations of independent Bangladesh. Later, as he moved on to the world stage he became Assistant Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and is currently Emeritus Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC. Educated at Harvard where he received his Ph.D. in Economics, he held visiting appointments at various universities abroad including Oxford and Yale and was Chairman of the UN Committee on
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