Publications
Working papers
Peer-reviewed articles
2021- "Impact of community masking on COVID-19: A cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh", Science. (Co-authored)
2021- “Community mask-wearing: a cluster randomized trial in Bangladesh”, NBER Working paper 28734 (coauthored)
2021- “Do Poor People’s Dreams Ever Come True? Educational Aspirations and Lived Realities in Urban Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh”, The European Journal of Development Research (co-authored)
2021- “Implementing a Humanitarian Needs Assessment Framework for Early Childhood Development: Conducting a Needs Assessments with Displaced Rohingya Communities in Bangladesh”, Journal of Education in Emergencies (coauthored)
2021- “No excess mortality in rural Bangladesh in 2020 from repeated surveys of a population of 81,000”, JAMA (coauthored)
2021- “No One Left Behind: Using Mixed‑Methods Research to Identify and Learn from Socially Marginalised Adolescents in Low‑ and Middle‑Income Countries”, The European Journal of Development
Research (co-authored)
Forthcoming- “Disaster Risk Reduction for Whom? The Gap between Centrally Planned Disaster Management Program and People’s Risk Perception and Adaptation”, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (coauthored)
2017- “The Effect of Minimum Wage on Employment Growth: The Case of Ready Made Garment Industry in Bangladesh”, Jahangirnagar Journal of Administrative Studies, vol. 10.
2015- “Urban Giant Syndrome of Dhaka City: Revisiting Two Sector Theories for Urban Policy Making”, (co- authored), Journal of Administrative Studies.
2014- “An Economic Approach to Demand-side Good Governance”, Dynamics of Public Administration,
31(1), 30-46.
2014- “Accountability for Public Expenditure: Agency problem and the Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General” Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 36(4), 249-260
2012-"Performance Appraisal System of Bangladesh Civil Service: An Analysis of Its Efficacy", International Public Management Review, 13(1), UK.
2010- “Public Policy Process in Bangladesh: Rhetoric or Precondition for Development?”, Development Review, vol. 20
Book chapters
2013-“Combatting Political and Administrative Corruption in Bangladesh: Institutionalizing Accountability and Transparency in Public Domain”, In Islam, M. S. ed., Human Rights and Governance: Bangladesh, Hongkong: Asian Legal Resource Center
2013: “Civil Service System and Reforms in Bangladesh” In Sabharwal and Barman (ed.) Public Administration in South Asia, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis: USA
2010- “Managing Public Administration in Bangladesh”, (co-authored) in Hasanuzzaman, A. M. (ed.), Political Management in Bangladesh, Dhaka: AHDP
Conference Paper
2013- ‘Do Reforms Improve the performance at the Agency Level? An Analysis of Medium-term Budget Framework and Fiscal performance of Bangladesh Government, 6th Annual Public Performance Measurement and Reporting Conference, New Jersey, USA
2012- 'Accountability in Public Expenditure: The Agency Problem and the Role of Comptroller General Office of Bangladesh', International Conference on Public Policy and Governance, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2010- ‘Managing Employee Performance in Bangladesh Civil Service’ Annual Conference of the Social Sciences Faculty of Jahangirnagar University
2009- ‘Political Behavior in a Third World Democracy: The Bangladesh Case’, the AGS Annual Conference in Paris
2009- ‘Institutional Analysis of Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General’, (co-authored), Conference on the Institutions of Accountability organized by the Institute of Governance Studies, BRAC University, Dhaka