A.K.M. Rahman

• PhD
• Professor at North South University

Although natural resources are crucial inputs for fostering economic growth, the environmental curse of natural resources cannot be overlooked. Notably, utilization of unclean natural resources often has risks of triggering higher carbon emissions; thus, making economic outputs more carbon-intensive and carbon sequestration more difficult. Hence, c...

China, United States, India, Russia, and Japan are regarded as the top five carbon dioxide-emitting nations in the world. These countries altogether account for more than half of the global annual discharges of carbon dioxide. Consequently, impeding the carbon emission-led environmental adversities in these countries is of critical emphasis for est...

The objective of this study is to evaluate whether improving the efficiency at which energy is employed can help Sub-Saharan African nations to attain their energy sustainability objectives. As opposed to the conventional approaches, the multidimensional aspects of energy sustainability are captured in this study by predicting an energy sustainabil...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has recently declared its vision of turning carbon neutral by 2060 whereby this Arab nation is motivated to adopt policies that can green its economic activities so that environmentally sustainable growth can be ensured. Against this backdrop, this study models the independent and joint effects of financial development,...

Bangladesh Bank, the central Bank of Bangladesh is committed to maintain price stability and facilitate economic growth through conventional monetary policy. Although Bangladesh entered the regime of floating exchange rate in 2003, central bank intervenes to minimize excessive fluctuation in exchange rate through foreign exchange intervention polic...

This paper examines the effectiveness of four major monetary policy transmission channels in the post reform period of Bangladesh using quarterly data from fiscal year 1998 to 2013. There have been a few empirical analyses on the monetary policy transmission channels of Bangladesh. Majority of those applied VAR or standard VAR model to evaluate the...

Economies around the world are interdependent with one another in the present era of globalization. While some global shocks may affect the countries of the world together, domestic policies of a country sometimes can hardly work independent of external factors. Keeping these in view, a large body of literature has developed to address the impact o...

This paper examines the channels through which financial development affects economic growth in Bangladesh along with probable feedback effects. Using Toda-Yamamoto Granger no causality approach the paper finds that finance causes growth through both capital accumulation and total factor productivity growth, albeit the former seems to be a more imp...

The paper examines the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission in the post reform period of Bangladesh using quarterly data from fiscal year 1999 to 2013. A caveat on standard VAR model is used in assessing the strength of alternative channels of monetary policy transmission. The paper finds that, monetary policy works in the desired directio...

According to the productivity bias hypothesis countries have a tendency for real appreciation in their domestic currency as a result of a productivity shock and the tendency is more pronounced in the non-tradable sectors. Balassa (1964) examines this thesis for 12 OECD countries in a cross section framework. This paper reexamines this empirically u...

According to the productivity bias hypothesis countries have a tendency for real appreciation in their domestic currency as a result of a productivity shock and the tendency is more pronounced in the non-tradable sectors. Balassa (1964) examines this thesis for 12 OECD countries in a cross section framework. This paper reexamines this empirically u...

The paper adopts a single equation approach to examine the real exchange rate behavior and exchange rate misalignment in Bangladesh. The paper finds that real exchange rate and the macroeconomic fundamentals affecting real exchange rate forms a cointrigrating vector. It observes that trade liberalization and increase in debt service burden results...

The paper adopts a single equation approach to examine the real exchange rate behaviour and exchange rate misalignment in Bangladesh. The paper finds that real exchange rate and the macroeconomic fundamentals affecting real exchange rate form a cointegrating vector. It observes that trade liberalization and increase in debt service burden result in...