Dr Md Shafiul Azam

Lecturer in Economics
MSS (Rajshahi), MSc (Manchester), PhD (Manchester) Photograph of Dr Md Shafiul Azam.

Contact

Email: msa1@aber.ac.uk
Office: Room 02, Cledwyn Building –Annex
Phone: +44 (0)1970 62 2824

Biography

Dr Shafiul Azam is a development micro-economist and micro-econometrician. He has an MSc (economics) and a PhD (economics) from the University of Manchester. He served on the government of Bangladesh’s Planning Commission for over eight years, and worked as a consultant for International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), UNDP and World Bank.

His research interests revolve around development economics, micro-econometrics, economics of growth and household income dynamics, particularly relating to households' poverty and vulnerability to poverty, risks, uncertainty and the dynamics that lead households into and out of poverty. He also has a special interest in the economics of policy/programme evaluation and modelling farm households’ welfare in the context of market failures. Other interests include the linkages between climate change, land use and food security and their impacts on the economic wellbeing and living standards of rural households. Most of his research targets South Asia, South-east Asia, and African countries.

ission, Govt. of Bangladesh (Sept.2000)

Staff Publications

 Publication

  1. Does Microfinance Reduce Poverty in Bangladesh? New Evidence from Household Panel Data, (with Katsushi S. Imai), Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 48, No. 5, 633–653, May 2012.

 Working Papers/Technical papers

  1. Agriculture, Markets and Poverty – A Comparative Analysis of Laos and Cambodia (with Raghav Gaiha) October  2012. Economics Discussion Paper Series EDP-1227, The University of Manchester.
  2. Measuring Households’ Vulnerability to Idiosyncratic and Covariate Shocks – the case of Bangladesh, (with Katsushi Imai) 2012. Discussion Paper Series DP2012-02, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University, Japan
  3. Agricultural Supply Response and Smallholders Market Participation – the case of Cambodia (with Raghav Gaiha) March 2012. Economics Discussion Paper Series EDP-1208, The University of Manchester.
  4. Does Microfinance Reduce Poverty in Bangladesh? New Evidence from Household Panel Data, (with Katsushi S. Imai) 2010.  Discussion Paper Series DP2010-24, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University (the earlier version is available as The School of Economics Discussion Paper Series 1019, Economics, The University of Manchester).
  5. Vulnerability and Poverty in Bangladesh, (with Katsushi Imai) Economics Discussion Paper, University of Manchester, 0905, 2009 (the edited version is available as CPRC working paper no. 141 2009 and Australia South Asia Research Centre (ANU) Working Paper 2009-2)
  6. Study on Jute Sector Assistance Policy, Bangladesh Tariff Commission, Dhaka, Bangladesh – 2005
  7. Analysis of Gross Domestic Product: Trends and Structure, Technical Paper, Planning Commission, Govt. of Bangladesh (Oct. 2002)
  8. 'SAM Approach for Informed Policy in Bangladesh', Technical Paper, Planning Commission, Govt. of Bangladesh (Dec. 2001)
  9. 'Basic Needs Approaches to Poverty Analysis and Analysis of Poverty Profiles in Bangladesh', Technical Paper, Planning Commission, Govt. of Bangladesh (Jan. 2001)
  10. 'Transmission Mechanisms and Impacts Over Time: Growth and Poverty', Technical Paper,  Planning Comm