Shahidur Rashid joined IFPRI as a postdoctoral fellow in 1999 to work on a research program on "Public Policies for Rural Institutions, Markets and Infrastructure Development." Prior to joining IFPRI, he worked with the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), taught undergraduate classes at the University of Illinois, and was a visiting researcher at IFPRI. A citizen of Bangladesh, Shahidur Rashid earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an M.S. and B.S. in the same subject from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. His current research include dynamics of wages and staple food prices in Asia; performance of agricultural markets after structural adjustment programs; public intervention and foodgrain markets in Asia; and micro-credit for the small farmers in Bangladesh. Shahidur was promoted to Research Fellow in October 2002.

• Public Policies for Rural Institutions, Markets and Infrastructure Development
• Public Interventions and Foodgrain Markets in Asia
• Dynamics of Food and Labor Markets in Asia

• Bangladesh
• India
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Tanzania
• Uganda

• Spatial Integration of Maize Markets in Post-Liberalized Uganda
  Shahidur Rashid. Journal of African Economies13(1): 102-133 2004.
• Micro Lending for Small Farmers in Bangladesh: Does It Affect Farm Households' Land Allocation Decision?
  Shahidur Rashid, Manfred Zeller, and Manohar Sharma. Journal of Developing Areas 37(2): 13-29 2004.
• Dynamics of Wages and Staple Food Price in Bangladesh: Has There Been A Reversal in the Trend?
  Rashid, Shahidur. 2002.
• Dynamics of Agricultural Wages and Rice Prices in Bangladesh: A Re-Examination
  Shahidur Rashid. MSSD Discussion Paper No. 44. March 2002.
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• Micro Lending for Small Farmers in Bangladesh: Does It Affect Farm Households' Land Allocation Decision?
  Shahidur Rashid, Manohar Sharma, and Manfred Zeller. MSSD DIscussion Paper No. 45. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington D.C., September 2002.
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• Group-Based Financial Institutions in Bangladesh: An Institutional and Household Level Analysis
  Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma, Akhter U. Ahmed, and Shahidur Rashid. Research Report No. 120. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington D.C., December 2001.
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