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

  • Achieving the MDGs and Ensuring Debt Sustainability, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 45-63;
    a previous version of this article had been presented at the UNCTAD Expert Group Meeting in Geneva,
    Switzerland, February 22-24, 2010; the presentation is available at: http://www.bangladeshstudies.
    org/files/Gunter_DS_v2_pub.pdf.
    
  • Papermaking from Jute: A Win-Win Solution for Bangladesh (with Md. Sarwar Jahan and A. F. M. Ataur
    Rahman), Journal of Bangladesh Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2010), pp. 46-56; a previous version of this paper
    had been presented at the Conference on "Ideas and Innovations for the Development of Bangladesh: The
    Next Decade", at Harvard University, Boston, October 9-10, 2009; the presentation is available at: http://www.
    bangladeshstudies.org/Strategy.html.

  • The Impact of Development on CO2 Emissions: A Case Study for Bangladesh until 2050, Bangladesh
    Development Research Working Paper Series (BDRWPS), No. 10 (November 2010); available at: http://www.
    bangladeshstudies.org/BDRWPS-home.html; a more comprehensive version of this paper (written jointly with
    A. Atiq Rahman) was presented at the 5th bi-annual conference of the United States Society for Ecological
    Economics (USSEE), May 31-June 3, 2009; the presentation is available at: http://www.bangladeshstudies.
    org/climate.html.

  • Aid, Debt, and Development in Bangladesh: Synergies or Contradictions (with A. F. M. Ataur Rahman
    and Jesmin Rahman) Journal of Bangladesh Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2010), pp. 23-43; previously presented
    at the Conference on “Bangladesh in the 21st Century” at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (June 13-14,
    2008.

  • 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.

  • 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.


  • 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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