Updated: October, 2021
MD. SHAKIL AHMED
Senior Research Associate
BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) BRAC UNIVERSITY
Email:[email protected]
FIELDS OF INTEREST Agriculture and poverty Health economics Food security
EDUCATION
Masters of Science in Development Evaluation and Management University of Antwerp, Belgium, 2017
EMPLOYMENT BRAC University
● Senior Research Associate, BIGD, 2019-Present
● Part-time Cost Benefit Analysis Expert, James P. Grant School of Public Health, 2018-2019 Uttara University Bangladesh
● Part-time Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, 2014-2015 Research and Evaluation Division (RED), BRAC
● Research Associate, 2013-2018
● Staff Researcher, 2012-2013
Economic Research Group (ERG), Dhaka, Bangladesh
● Research Assistant, 2010-2011
PUBLICATIONS Journal articles
• Chowdhury, A. S., Ahmed, M. S., Ahmed, S., Khanam, F., Farjana, F., Reza, S., ... & Rahman, M.
(2021). Estimating Catastrophic Costs due to Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Bangladesh. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 11(1), 83.
Updated: October, 2021
• Hossain MM. Malek M.A., Hossain M.A., Reza M.H. & Ahmed M.S. (2019) Agricultural Microcredit for Tenant Farmers: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(3), 692-709.
• Ahmed, M.S., Ahmed, M.D. and Haider M.Z. (2014). A Nonparametric Estimation of Total Factor Productivity Growth of Manufacturing Firms, New Zealand Journal of Applied Business Research.Vol.12 Issue 1, pp. 49-66.
• Ahmed, M.S and Haider, M.Z. (2013). Efficient Utilization of Resource in manufacturing firms, Journal of Global Economy, Vol. 9 Issue 3, pp. 182-196.
• Ahmed, M.S., and Ahmed, M.D. (2013). Explaining Efficiency Variation of Manufacturing Firms of Bangladesh: Seafood Processing Firms as a Case Study, Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 3, Issue 2, pp. 45-56.
• Sultana, S., Ahmed, M.S. and Hossen, Sk. S. (2013). Diarrhoeal Diseases in the Slums of Khulna City: Prevalence and Cost Analysis, Asian Journal of Development Studies. Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp.
60-70.
• Haider M.Z., Ahmed, M.S. and Mallick A. (2011). Technical Efficiency of Agricultural Farms in Khulna, Bangladesh: Stochastic Frontier Approach, International Journal of Economics and Finance. Vol. 3, Issue 3, pp. 248-256.
• Ahmed, M.S., Ahmed, M.D. and Moni, N. N., (2010), Allocative Efficiency for the Sustainable Production Process of the Seafood Industry in Bangladesh, New Zealand Journal of Applied Business Research, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 27-49.
Book/book chapters
• Bhattacharjee A. and Ahmed M.S. (2014) “Natural, physical and financial assets” in Life and Livelihood of the Ultra Poor in Rural Bangladesh: Baseline Findings of CFPR-TUP Programme Phase III, Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, Dhaka.
• Bhattacharjee A., Jimi N.A., Shams R., Ahmed M.S., Ara J. and Ahmad S. (2014)
“Profile of the people living in the coastal and haor areas under ACCD package” in Life and Livelihood of the Ultra Poor in Rural Bangladesh: Baseline Findings of CFPR-TUP Programme Phase III, Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC , Dhaka.
• Hossain M, Jaim WMH, Malek MA, Hossain M, Jimi NA, Mahmud KT, Ahasan A, Chakraborty B, Hossain MA, Ahmed MS, Reza MH, Rahman ANMM and Das NC (2014)
Impact Assessment of the credit programme for the tenant farmers; Baseline report-2012, BRAC, Dhaka
Reports & Monographs
● Ahmed, M., S., Aktar, F., & Shamim A. A., (2018). Benefit cost and cost effectiveness analysis on home gardening for nutrition, Research report Submitted to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
● Ahmed, M. S., Aktar, F., & Shamim, A. A. (2018) Benefit to cost and cost effectiveness analysis of micronutrient rich small indigenous species (Mola) cultivation and promotion in household ponds through training and demonstration, Research report Submitted to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
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● Ara, J. Rahman, R., Ahmed, M. S., Ahmed, S., and Hossain, M. (2015). Livelihoods in Depressed Basins of Bangladesh, Research and Evaluation Division BRAC, Report 42.
● Self-reliance Situation of Host Communities in Cox’s Bazar (2018), An assessment conducted by Save the Children, BRAC, World Vision, WFP and UNHCR
UNPUBLISHED THESES
● Ahmed MS., (2017), Impact of asset transfer program on food security of poor households, Unpublished Dissertation, Submitted to IOB, university of Antwerp, Belgium
● Ahmed, MS., (2017), A review of the literature and evidence of the relation between women’s economic empowerment, food security and children’s nutritional status, Unpublished Module paper, Submitted to IOB, university of Antwerp, Belgium
● Ahmed, MS., (2012), “Growth-Drivers of Manufacturing Firms in the South-west
● Region of Bangladesh”, Unpublished Masters Thesis, Economics Discipline, Khulna University, Bangladesh
● Ahmed, MS., (2009), “Estimation of Cobb-Douglas Production Function and Measuring the Returns to Scale in Some Selected Seafood Firms of Khulna Regions”, unpublished BSS (Honours) Thesis, Economics Discipline, Khulna University, Bangladesh
SEMINARS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/DISCUSSIONS
● Five-day course on “Measurement and Impact Evaluation”, jointly organized by J-PAL, XIFMR and CLEAR, held from August 16-20, 2015 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
● “Workshop on Impact Evaluation” jointly organized by J-PAL, IPA and BRAC, held from 17-19 June, 2013, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
● “Proposal Writing Workshop on Environmental Economics”, jointly organized by the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, and Economics Research Group, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2-6 March, 2011.
● Ahmed MS and Farjana F. (2019) Impact of Ultra-Poor Graduation program on food security in Bangladesh, A poster presented in 2019 Global Development Conference 'Knowledge for Sustainable Development: The Research–Policy Nexus.' in Bonn, Germany, 21-27 October, 2019
● Malek MA, Hossain MA, Ahmed MS and Hossain MM. Impact assessment of credit programme for the tenant farmers in Bangladesh: Evidences from the field experiment. To be presented at 11th Australasian Development Economics Workshop, Monash University, Caulfield campus, Melbourne, Australia, 4-5th June 2015.
● Shatil, T., Ahmed, MS and Malek MA. (2015) Prevalence of food insecurity among the small holders in rural Bangladesh, an empirical study, Paper presented at the Third
● International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at Grassroots, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, Jan 19-22, 2015.
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● Ahmed, MS. and Malek MA. (2014). “Do the farm size and tenancy relation matter for resource utilization and scale of economics in paddy production? Empirical analysis from
● Bangladesh”, Paper presented at the 8th International Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 15-17 October 2014.
HONORS AND ACCOLADES
● Awarded VLIR-UOS scholarship, 2016.
