Dr. Mosharaff Hossain is Professor of Economics, Dhaka University, former member, Planning Commission, Government of Bangladesh. He was visiting scholar, Brooking Institution, Washington DC; Fellow, University of York, England; Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford; the Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway; OECD Development Centre, Paris; Senior Consulting Fellow, the Population Council, New York. He is co-author, ‘Rural Asia’, ‘Challenge and Opportunity’, Asian Development Bank; Pattern of a Peasant Economy: The Assault that Failed, UNRISD, Geneva, The Floods in Bangladesh and Rural Poverty in Bangladesh.