
He has more than 80 research publications in national and international journals. He has written extensively on agricultural development, poverty and public policy, food security, employment guarantee schemes, social security, farm and nonfarm employment. Mahendra Dev is currently Director of the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, India.

She is currently working on growth in Indian economy and its impacts on smaller South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries and economic reforms in SAARC countries. Her research monograph, Resources Booms and Macroeconomic Adjustments in Developing Countries was published in 2004 by Ashgate. Her research interests are development economics, macroeconomic policy management and environmental economics. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics and Finance, University of Western Sydney. Mamta Chowdhury obtained her PhD from the Australian National University. He was a visiting Fellow at UNU-WIDER, Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore). He has published extensively on East and Southeast Asian economies and has been a consultant to UNDP and ILO. He has taught at the University of Manitoba, National University of Singapore and the University of New England (Australia).

He obtained his PhD from the University of Manitoba, Canada. Anis Chowdhury is Professor of Economics at the University of Western Sydney (Australia) and Founder Co-editor of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.

He has served the National Planning Commission and Ministry of Finance of the Government of Nepal as Senior Adviser and was involved in developing the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper of the country. He has recently worked as the Team Leader for the Technical Review of School Education, an exercise in the monitoring of financial and sector-wise progress in the school education sub-sector in Nepal. He has worked in the fields of planning, poverty analysis, economic and sectoral policy analysis, fiscal policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation and socioeconomic analysis. Wangyal The Maldives Mamta ChowdhuryĬontributors Bhuban Bajracharya was a Professor at the Center for Economic Development and Administration, Kathmandu, Nepal. Mahendra Dev Pakistan Parvez Hasan Bangladesh Wahiduddin Mahmud Sri Lanka Saman Kelegama Nepal S.R. Introduction: South Asian economic development: impressive achievements but continuing challenges Wahiduddin Mahmud and Anis Chowdhury India S. ISBN 978 1 84376 988 0 Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USAĪ catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2008924974 Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited Glensanda House Montpellier Parade Cheltenham Glos GL50 1UA UK Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.

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