Visiting Senior Fulbright Scholar, University of New Orleans; New Orleans, Louisiana M.A. Mannan Chowdhury is a development economist with research, teaching, and consulting experience in Islamic economics and macroeconomics. He has published ten books in Bengali and English and a number of research papers in various refereed academic journals. He has also presented research papers in many academic conferences both in Bangladesh and overseas. Chowdhury earned a B.A. in Economics with distinction in 1973 and an M.A. in Economics in 1974 from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He also earned a second M.A. in Economics in 1978 from Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, and a Ph.D. in Economics in 1993 from Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, India. He has been teaching in the Department of Economics at the University of Chittagong since 1974, where he is now Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department. Currently, he is visiting the U.S. as a Visiting Senior Fulbright Scholar.
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