KAZI ALI TOUFIQUE

Personal information

Mailing Address E-17 Agargaon, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, GPO Box 3854, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh and Dorfstrasse 18, 24637 Schillsdorf, Germany
Telephone 8123654 (Direct), 9143441-8x272(PABX), 8960200 (R) and (49) 04394-991963 (Germany)
Fax 880-2-8113023
Email lintu@sndbd.org
Nationality Bangladeshi
Date of Birth June 11, 1960
Position and Affiliation Senior Research Fellow, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Academic Record

Degree Year Institution Results
PhD (Econ.) 1996 University of Cambridge, UK Passed
M. Phil. (Econ.) 1990 University of Cambridge, UK Passed
M. A. (Econ.) 1987 Fordham University, USA GPA of 3.9
M. S. S. (Econ.) 1983* University of Dhaka, Bangladesh First Class (4th Position)
B. S. S. (Econ.) 1982** University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Second Class (5th Position)

* Examination held in 1985-86. ** Examination held in 1983-84.

Current Research

  1. Community empowerment by the NGOs in Community based fisheries management in Bangladesh.
  2. Livelihods Impact of Floodplain Aquaculture in Bangladesh.

Completed Work

  1. Fisheries Expert, FAO country evaluation team for Cambodia, 18 August-6 September, 2007.
  2. Team-Member, Review and livelihoods impacts assessment of Self-Reliant Community Initiatives in Floodplain Fish and Aquatic Resources Management, 5-19 February (with Dr. Rick Gregory and Mr. Md. Nuruzzaman), 2007.
  3. Team-Member, IDA/DFID Review Mission, Project Completion Review of the Fourth Fisheries Project of Bangladesh, 10-16 May (with Dr. Barry Blake), 2005.
  4. National Consultant, Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM2), Third Project Review (with Dr. Barry Blake, Anwar Zahid, Esha Husain, and Patricia Almada Villela), December, 2004.
  5. Team-Member, DFID sponsored study on Beneficiary Impact Monitoring (Household Survey) of the Fourth Fisheries Project conducted by BIDS, July 2004.
  6. Project Director, DFID sponsored study on Beneficiary Impact Monitoring of the Fourth Fisheries Project conducted by BIDS, May 2003 to June 2004.
  7. National Consultant, Support for University Fisheries Education and Research (SUFER), End of Project Review (with Prof. James Muir and Alan Brooks), June, 2004.
  8. Team Member, Hands not Land 2 – Understanding Change in Bangladesh from a Women and Girls Perspective, DFID Bangladesh (with Cate Turton, Sam Gibson and Simeen Mahmud), 2004.
  9. National Consultant, Support for University Fisheries Education and Research (SUFER), Fifth Output to Purpose Review (with Prof. Mark Langworthy and Alan Brooks), 2003.
  10. Project Director, BIDS-ODI (Overseas Development Institute, London), Livelihood Options in Bangladesh, 2001-2002.
  11. Project Director, BIDS-UNDP research project on “Community Responses to Environmental Degradation due to Shrimp Culture in the Coastal Region in Bangladesh”, 2001 – "2002.
  12. National Consultant, Livelihoods and Institutional Assessment for DFID (Department of Foreign Investment and Development of the Government of the UK) Bangladesh. 2000-2001.
  13. Impact of structural adjustment programmes on environment under the SAPRI (Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative) project. 2000-2001.
  14. Scoping study for DFID (Department of Foreign Investment and Development of the Government of the UK) on land and water rights with Dr Saurabh Sinha of the Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK. 2000.
  15. Project Director, Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Bangladesh in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. 1997-1999.
  16. Sector specialist (frozen food export sector) in a BIDS research project on technological capability in the industrial sector of Bangladesh. 1999.
  17. Written a chapter on the concept of Sustainable Livelihoods for the Human Development Report 1997 of the UNDP, Dhaka. 1999.
  18. Prepared a report on Fisheries Sector Review for the UNDP, Dhaka in 1997.
  19. Worked as a Research Assistant in a research project on small industries in EC countries in the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, UK, during June-August, 1993.
  20. Worked as a Consultant in the Informal Financial Markets Study of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies and the Asian Development Bank from February 1987 through January 1988.
  21. Worked as a Research Assistant in Department of Economics, Fordham University from Fall, 1986 through Winter 1987.

Publications

  1. "Common Waters and Private Lands: Distributional Impacts of Floodplain Aquaculture in Bangladesh", Food Policy (with Rick Gregory, forthcoming)
  2. “Community Empowerment by NGOs - Experience from the Fourth Fisheries Project in Bangladesh”, Discussion Paper No. 135, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, December 2005.
  3. “Farm Size and Productivity in Bangladesh Agriculture: Role of Transaction Costs in Rural Labour Markets”, Economic and Political Weekly, 40 (10), pp. 988-92, March 5, 2005.
  4. “Profit, environment and voice: shrimp culture in Bangladesh” in Pradhan (ed.), Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law in Social, Economic and Political Development, Papers of the XIIIth International Congress of the Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism, 7-10 April, 2002, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Volume II, pp. 101-122, 2003.
  5. "A Ten year retrospective study of Suicide cases reported at the Sir Salimullah Medical College Mortuary, Bangladesh”, Bangladesh Medical Journal, 31 (3&4), July-October, 2002, pp. 36-40. (with Muhammad Nurul Islam and Md. Nasimul Islam).
  6. Hands not Land: How Livelihoods are Changing in Rural Bangladesh, (with Cate Turton), Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, September, 2002.
  7. Agricultural and non-agricultural livelihoods in rural Bangladesh: a relationship in flux in K. Toufique and C. Turton, Hands not Land: How Livelihoods are Changing in Rural Bangladesh, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, September, 2002.
  8. “Pattern of Unnatural Death in a City Mortuary - A Ten Year Retrospective Study”, Bangladesh Medical Journal, 31 (1&2), January-April, 2002, pp. 3-9. (with Muhammad Nurul Islam and Md. Nasimul Islam).
  9. “Trends of Homicide in Southern Dhaka - A 10 Years Study”, Journal of Bogra Medical College, 5 (2), January, 2002, pp. 46-54. (with Muhammad Nurul Islam, Md. Nasimul Islam, Md. Kamal Osman, Md. Mozaharul Islam, Md. Ataur Rahman, and Mustaque Rahim).
  10. “Retrospective Study of 273 Deaths due to Poisoning at Sir Salimullah Medical College from 1988 to 1997”, Journal of Dhaka Medical College, 10 (1), April, 2001, pp. 46-52. (with Muhammad Nurul Islam, Nasimul Islam, and Mustaque Rahim).
  11. "Degrading Fisheries Resources", pp. 83-89. In Atiur Rahman, M. Ashraf Ali, Farooque Chowdhury (eds.) People’s Report on Bangladesh Environment 2001, Unnayan Shamannay and The University Press Limited, Dhaka, 2001.
  12. Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Bangladesh, IDS Research Report 45, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, September, 2001, pp. 1-132.
  13. “Sandwiched between 'us' and 'them': dilemmas and contradictions in the shrimp-processing export sector of Bangladesh in the globalisation process”, South Asia, Special Issue on Regional Responses to Global Economic Changes: West Bengal and Bangladesh, New Series, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, June, 2001, pp. 185-200.
  14. "Monitoring in Privatized Non-Exclusive Resources", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4, December, 2000, pp. 115-121.
  15. Migration and Livelihoods : Case Studies in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Mali (with Arjan de Hann, Karen Brock, Grace Carswell, Ngolo Coulibaly, Haileyesus Seba), IDS Research Report 46, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, April, 2000.
  16. "Distribution of Rent in the Inland Fisheries of Bangladesh", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, March, 2000, pp. 77-97.
  17. "Property Rights and Power Structure in Inland Fisheries in Bangladesh", p 57-63. In H.A.J. Middendorp, P.M. Thompson and R.S. Pomeroy (eds.) Sustainable Inland Fisheries Management in Bangladesh. ICLARM Conference Proceedings 58, 280 p, Manila, 1999.
  18. "Institutions and Externalities in the Inland Fisheries of Bangladesh", Land Economics, August, Vol. 74, No. 3, 1998.
  19. "A Simple Model of Power and Property Rights in the Inland Fisheries of Bangladesh", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 25, Nos. 1 &2, March-June, 1997.
  20. "Some Observations on Power and Property Rights in the Inland Fisheries of Bangladesh", World Development, Vol. 25, No. 3, March, 1997.
  21. "Rice and Fish: Environmental Dilemmas of Development in Bangladesh", Independent Review of Bangladesh Development (IRBD), University Press Limited (with M. Asaduzzaman), 1997.
  22. "Sand or Oil in the Machine?: A Comment on Corruption and Entrepreneurship", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 23, Nos. 1 & 2, March-June, 1995 (with Mushtaq Khan).
  23. "Issues on the Exploitation of Inland Open-Water Capture Fisheries in Bangladesh", ENBS/EC Research Paper No. 4/6-94, University of Bath, Bath. 1994.
  24. "Share-cropping, Efficiency and Risk- A Note", The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, June, 1988.
  25. "The IS LM Curves Re-revisited with the Aid of Geometry of International Trade - A Note", Indian Economic Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3, Jan-Mar, 1986.
  26. "A Critical Evaluation of the New Theories of International Trade", Journal of Management, Business, and Economics, July, 1986.

Unpublished work/reports (in progress)

  1. “Rights and Livelihoods”, a paper prepared for Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
  2. “Towards an Operational Definition of Sustainable Livelihoods” (with Abu Abdullah), Bangladesh Institute for Development Studies.
  3. Clarifying some Conceptual and Empirical Issues on Inland Fisheries Management in Bangladesh.

Teaching Experience

  1. Taught Mathematics and Advanced Economic Theory to students attending the BIDS Advanced Training Programme in Economics and Quantitative Techniques for two years (1989 and 1992).
  2. Taught research methodology, sampling techniques and report writing to college teachers at NEMAP in a BIDS-NEMAP course on research methodology (REMET) in 1997.
  3. Given a lecture on “Use of Mathematics in Economics” to college teachers at NEMAP in a Bangladesh Economic Association-NEMAP course in 2000.

Recent Seminar/Workshop Papers

  1. “Floodplain Aquaculture in Bangladesh: A case of Enchantment or Disenchantment?”, a paper presented in a seminar jointly organised by Department of Economics, Lund University, Sweden and SASNET (Swedish South Asian Studies Network) on 15 March, 2007 in Lund, Sweden.
  2. Common Interests, Private Gains: A Study of Co-operative Floodplain AquaculturePaper presented at the International Conference on Community Based Approaches to Fisheries Management, Dhaka, Bangladesh March 7-8 2007 (with Rick Gregory and Md. Nuruzzaman).
  3. “Fisheries Development and Poverty Reduction”, a background paper presented at the National Workshop on Fisheries Research organised by the World Fish Center (ICLARM) and the Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute, held at Dhaka on 2-5 April 2003.
  4. Presented a paper titled “Livelihoods Change in Four Villages: Preliminary Findings from a Household Re-Survey” in a seminar organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka, on 9 October, 2002.
  5. Paper titled “Community Responses to Environmental Degradation due to Shrimp Culture in the Coastal Region in Bangladesh” selected for the 9th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property on The Commons in an Age of Globalisation to be held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 17-21 June, 2002.
  6. Presented a paper titled “Profit Environment and Voice: Shrimp Culture in Bangladesh” in the XIIIth International Congress on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism to be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 7-10 April, 2002.
  7. Participated in a workshop on institutional analysis organised by the Ronald Coase Institute and supported by Earhart Scholarship during 9-13 September, 2001 at Berkeley, California.
  8. Presented a paper titled “Community Responses to Environmental Degradation due to Shrimp Culture in the Coastal Region in Bangladesh” in the inaugural conference on People and the Sea organised by MARE (Maritime Research in the Social Sciences) held in Amsterdam during 30 August and 1 September, 2001.
  9. Presented a paper (with Cate Turton) titled “The Emerging Rural Reality in Bangladesh” in Regional Livelihoods Workshop, held in Dhaka during 8-10 May, 2001 and organised by DFID.
  10. Presented a paper (with Dr Nurul Islam) titled “Low Costs Source of Statistics in Poor Countries: Generating and Disseminating Useful Data from Medico-Legal Autopsy Findings” in the international conference on Statistics, Development and Human Rights, organised by the IAOS (International Association of Official Statistics) and held in Montreux, Switzerland from 4 - 8 September 2000.
  11. Poster presentation of a paper titled “Property Rights, Livelihoods, and Poverty around some Fishing Grounds in Rural Bangladesh” in the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, May 31 – June 4. 2000, held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
  12. Presented a paper titled “Structural Constraint to Agricultural Growth: An Explanation of the Farm Size and Productivity Relationship in Bangladesh” in the 6th conference of the ENBS (European Network for Bangladesh Studies) held at the University of Oslo, Norway on 14-16 May, 2000. A revised version (co-authored with Ms Mehrun Ahmed) of this paper was also presented at the 13th biennial conference of the Bangladesh Economic Association, held in Dhaka during August 25-27, 2000 and in the Fifth Annual Conference of ISNIE (International Society for New Institutional Economics) held at the University of California at Berkeley during 13-15 September, 2001.
  13. Presented a paper titled “Migration and Social Capital” in the 6th conference of the ENBS (European Network for Bangladesh Studies) held at the University of Oslo, Norway on 14-16 May, 2000.
  14. Presented a paper titled “Property Rights, Livelihoods, and Poverty around some Fishing Grounds in Rural Bangladesh” in the conference on the “Indian Ocean Fisheries: Past, Present and Future” held at Fremantle (Perth), Australia, 8-10 November 1999.
  15. Presented a paper (with Martin Greeley) titled “Bangladesh: The Sustainable Livelihoods Framework Applied” in the workshop on Sustainable Livelihoods held at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, on 28 June, 1999.
  16. Presented a paper titled “A Tale of Some Fishing Grounds: Property Rights, Livelihoods, and Poverty in Rural Bangladesh” in the 5th Conference of the ENBS (European Network for Bangladesh Studies) held at the University of Bath, Bath, UK on 16-18 April, 1998.
  17. Presented a paper titled "Property Rights and Power Structure in Inland Fisheries in Bangladesh" at the ICLARM/DANIDA national workshop on policy for sustainable inland fisheries management, Dhaka, March 1997.
  18. Presented a paper titled "Managing Inland Fisheries in Bangladesh: Another Case in Public Policy Failure?" at the BIDS on 24 June 1996.
  19. Presented a paper titled "A Critique of the Management of Inland Fisheries in Bangladesh" in an one-day workshop on Policy Options for the Fisheries of the Indian Ocean Region on 2 July, 1996 at Perth, Australia. The workshop was jointly sponsored by South Asia Research Unit, Indian Ocean Research Centre and the Development Studies Unit of Curtin University, Perth.
  20. Presented a paper titled "Fishing Contracts, Production Organisation and Rent in the Riverine Fisheries of Bangladesh" on 10 July, 1996, in a session on South Asian Fisheries in the four-day long 20th-Anniversary Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) held in La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
  21. Presented a paper titled "Inland Fisheries Management: Institutions and Policies for Sustainable Management" on 26 September, 1996, in a joint conference organised by the Christen Michelsen Institute, Norway and Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka.
  22. Presented a paper on Inland Fisheries Management in Bangladesh to the Local Consultative Group on Fisheries at DANIDA on 2 October, 1996.

Academic Awards and Fellowship

  1. Visiting Research Fellow, Graduate School of International Development at Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan (January 1- March 31, 2005).
  2. Visiting Fellow, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, 1996, 1997, 1999.
  3. Research Studentship, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1993.
  4. Commonwealth Scholarship awarded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission of the United Kingdom in 1989.
  5. Full Research Assistantship and Presidential Scholarship awarded by Fordham University, New York, 1986.

Professional Membership

  1. Life Member, Bangladesh Economic Association, Bangladesh.
  2. International Association for the Study of Common Property Resources, Indiana University, USA.
  3. International Society for the Study of New Institutional Economics, USA.
  4. Member, American Alumni Association of Bangladesh.

Professional Training

  1. Successfully completed the requirements of The Ronald Coase Institute Workshop on Institutional Analysis in Berkeley, California, September 9-13, 2001.
  2. Successfully completed the requirements of The World Bank Institute and the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies training on Poverty Analysis in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July, 2002.

Referee for the following journals

  1. World Development
  2. Food Policy
  3. Aquaculture Economics and Management
  4. Bangladesh Journal of Political Economy
  5. The Bangladesh Development Studies