Books

Fifteen books written, edited or co-written between 1987 and today — research and policy studies, edited volumes, a biography, a memoir and poetry.

Research, policy and edited volumes

Books and book-length policy studies on financial inclusion, social protection, education, local government and political thought.

Author
Mobile Financial Service in Bangladesh: Achievement, Opportunity and Challenge
A policy review with recommendations — described by bdnews24 as the first book in Bangla on mobile financial services.
Riverside Press Bangladesh · 2017
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Co-author
Social Safety Nets in Bangladesh, Volume 1: Review of Issues and Analytical Inventory
with Hossain Zillur Rahman and Liaquat Ali Choudhury
A PPRC–UNDP research initiative.
Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) · 2011
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Editor
Researching Poverty from the Bottom Up
with Hossain Zillur Rahman
Reflections on the experience of the Programme for Research on Poverty Alleviation, 1994–2002.
PPRC and Grameen Trust · 2007
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Co-author
Quality Improvement in Primary Education: Micro Insights for Macro Agenda
with Hossain Zillur Rahman
A PPRC policy paper.
Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC)
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Editor
Halkhata 2008: Annual Report on Primary Education
Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) · 2008
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Author
Tober Gachke Uthone Roponer Udyog
On early childhood care and development in Bangladesh — “moving the potted plant into the yard”.
Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC)
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Co-editor
Local Government in the New Century: A Search for New Frontiers
with Hossain Zillur Rahman
PPRC and Pathak Shamabesh · 2002
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Editor
Politics, Ethnicity and Security: Bangladesh and South Asian Perspective
By Aftab Ahmed.
Riverside Press · 2012
Editor
Antonio Gramsci: Struggle and Life
First published by Proshanga Prokasoni in 1991; enlarged second edition, 2011.
Agami Prokashoni · 2011
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Author
Fatwa: 1991–1995
1996
Author
Torun Mon Proshangic Bhabna (Youth Mind and Other Issues)
Proshanga Prokasoni · 1987

Memoir, biography and poetry

Writing outside research: a life, a remembered comrade, and poems.

Author
Paraathaparater Anandadarshan: Kazi Rafiqul Alam O Dhaka Ahsania Mission
On Kazi Rafiqul Alam and the work of Dhaka Ahsania Mission.
Baatighar · 2022
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Author
Kusumito Ispat: Amar Comrade Shahid Anwar
A remembrance of a comrade, set against the 1980s — the years of military rule.
Chandrabindu Prokashon, Chattogram
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Author
Monobhumir Akash
Poems — a first collection.
2021
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Author
Heart of Horizon
Monobhumir Akash in English — translated by Nadira Bhabna, edited by Fakrul Alam.
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