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Dr. Bernhard G. Gunter
(President of the Bangladesh Development Research Center;
and Adjunct
Associate Prof., Econ. Dept., American University)


  • Papermaking from Jute: A Win-Win Solution for Bangladesh (with M. Sarwar Jahan and A. F. M.
    Ataur Rahman), Paper presented at the Conference on "Ideas and Innovations for the Development of
    Bangladesh: The Next Decade", at Harvard University, Boston, October 9-10, 2009; presentation
    availalbe at: http://www.bangladeshstudies.org/Strategy.html; paper available upon request.

  • Physical and Psychological Implications of Risky Child Labor: A Study in Sylhet City,
    Bangladesh (with Mohammad Nashir Uddin and Mohammad Hamiduzzaman), Bangladesh Development
    Research Working Paper Series (BDRWPS), No. 8 (July 2009); available at: http://www.
    bangladeshstudies.org/BDRWPS-home.html.

  • The Impact of Development and Growth on CO2 Emissions: A Case Study for Bangladesh until
    2050 (with A. Atiq Rahman), Paper presented at the 5th bi-annual conference of the United States
    Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE), May 31-June 3, 2009; presentation available at: http://www.
    bangladeshstudies.org/climate.html; paper available upon request.

  • Linking Social Development with the Capacity to Carry Debt: Towards an MDG-Consistent Debt
    Sustainability Concept (with Jesmin Rahman and Haiyan Shi), Development Policy Review, Vol. 27, No.
    3 (May 2009), pp. 269-286.

  • Nonwood Fiber Papermaking: A Win-Win Solution for Bangladesh (with M. Sarwar Jahan and A. F.
    M. Ataur Rahman), Bangladesh Development Research Working Paper Series (BDRWPS), No. 4
    (January 2009); available at: http://www.bangladeshstudies.org/BDRWPS-home.html.


  • Climate Change and Bangladesh – Annotated Bibliography (with A. M. Kamal Uddin, Shamim
    Begum, Nasimul Haque, and Ralf Ernst), Dhaka: Comprehensive Disaster Management Program,
    Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh; and Falls Church, VA: Bangladesh Development
    Research Center, 2008 (updated in January 2009, May 2009 and January 2010); available at: http://www.
    bangladeshstudies.org/climate.html.

  • Aid, Debt, and Development in Bangladesh: Synergies or Contradictions, Paper presented at the
    Conference on “Bangladesh in the 21st Century” at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (June 13-14,
    2008) (with A. F. M. Ataur Rahman and Jesmin Rahman); available upon request.


  • How Vulnerable are Bangladesh’s Indigenous People to Climate Change?, Paper presented at
    the Conference on Indigenous People and Bangladesh Environment in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Adibashi
    Jonogoshti o Bangladesher Poribesh) (17-18 December 2007); published as Bangladesh Development
    Research Working Paper Series (BDRWPS), No. 1 (April 2008)  (with Atiq Rahman, and A. F. M. Ataur
    Rahman); full paper available at: http://www.bangladeshstudies.org/bdrwps-home.html.

  • Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? Understanding Who Pays for Debt Relief, World Development, Vol.
    36, No. 1 (January 2008), pp. 1-16 (with Jesmin Rahman and Quentin Wodon).

  • MDG-Consistent Debt Sustainability: How to Ease the Tension between Achieving the MDGs
    and Maintaining Debt Sustainability, Discussion Paper commissioned for a joint UNDESA/UNDP
    roundtable in New York (October 31, 2006; revised version of January 2007); available at: http://www.
    undp.org/poverty/docs/debtflow/Debt-3-Gunter.pdf.
Selected publications since joining the BDRC (January 2007)
(in reverse chronological order)

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