Professor Ataul Huq Pramanik is a distinguished economist with a special expertise in development, distribution, poverty and public policies both from conventional and Islamic perspectives. In most of his research works published in books, academic journals, newspapers and magazines, Professor Huq has championed the cause of social justice with compassion as propounded by Islam. He argues very strongly in favour of economic, social and political democracy to promote development with justice in the Muslim world. As a former colleague of the Nobel Laureate-Professor Muhammad Yunus at the department of economics, Chittagong University, Bangladesh in the early 1970s. Professor Huq likes to blame, the institutions rather than the victims for poverty, inequality and underdevelopment in the world, in general, and the Muslim world, in particular. He also enjoys the distinct privilege of having his bio-graphical record published in Marquis Who's who in the world (12th edition, USA), Who's Who in Science and Engineering (3rd edition, USA) and Dictionary of International Biography (24th edition, Cambridge). His biographical record has also been included in the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership (1998). Other Books of Author: Elementary Statistics; Baboharik Parishankyan (Applied Statistics); Soodbihin Islamic Bank Babostha (ed.); Readings in Islamic Banking (ed.); Development and Finance in Islam (ed.); Development and Distribution in Islam; Malaysia's Economic Success; Human Development with Dignity; Urban Poverty: A Case Study of Malaysia; Islamic Banking: How Far Have We Gone? (ed.); Poverty with Many Faces: A Case Study of Malaysia; Muslim World Agriculture in Disarray: An Agenda for Collective Self-reliant Development; Development through Urban Bias Public Expenditure: An Empirical Study of Bangladesh; Islam, Democracy and Development: Institutional and Policy Failures in the Muslim World; Poverty from Multi-dimensional Perspectives: A Micro Level Study of Seven Malaysian Kampungs (Villages); Political Economy of Development: A Comparative Study of Regime Performance; Political Economy of Development: A Comparative Study of Regime Performance in the Muslim World. He is a very patient observer of Development Economics. A versatile writer, Professor Pramanik demonstrates a keen interest in the gradual history of development, its changing patterns and evolving strategies pursued by the regimes all over the world. His innumerable works include books and international conference papers presented all over the world. Professor Pramanik empirically verified and tested the theories of Development championed by the renowned scholars including Nobel Laureates- Arthur Lewis, Karl Marx, Noam Chomsky, Piketty, Noah Feldman, Farid Zakaria, Kuznets, Keynes, Harrod and Domar, Mahbubul Haq, Hans Singer, Ragner Nurkse, Michael Lipton, Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman Milton Friedman, Mahbubul Haq, A. K. Sen, Arundhoti Roy, Yunus, Mahbubul Alam Chasi (Farmer), Mahathir Mohamed, Chandra Muzaffar and many more. His commitment to examining conventional theories from material, moral and spiritual perspective has relevance to the works of some of the early Islamic economic thinkers like Ibn Khaldun, Nejatullah Siddiqi, Khurshid Ahmad, Nawab Haider Naqvi, Mannan, Vali Nasr and many more.
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