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.
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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.
