Dr. Mohammad Ali Taslim
Independent Economics Society (IES), a voluntary student club under Department of Economics, School of Business organized a seminar titled as “Economic Analysis & Policy” on 4th November 2010 at 4:30 pm at the seminar room of School of Busniess, 83 Suhrawardy Avenue Baridhara, Dhaka. The chief guest of the seminar was Dr. Mohammad Ali Taslim Professor of Economics University of Dhaka. He is currently the CEO of Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute (The Ministry of Commerce), one of the directors of Bangladesh Bank and Former Chairman of Bangladesh Tariff Commission, (The Ministry of Commerce). Professor Bazlul Mobin Chowdhury (Vice Chancellor), Dr. Nadim Jahangir (Professor and Director, School of Business), Dr. A.K. Monaw-war Uddin Ahmad (Professor and Head, Department of Economics) and Prof. Nazrul Islam (Department of Social Sciences and Humanities ) were present at the seminar amongst many other faculty members and distinguished guests at the School of Business.
In his speech, Dr. Mohammad Ali Taslim cited many common prejudices based on which the policies of this country are made. He sympathizes that the irony of fate is that in most countries like Bangladesh that need the most economic assistance, economists do not have any role to play in the policy making. He ends by strongly emphasizing on the fact that data must be properly collected and analyzed by competent economists before policies are made instead of basing them on popular prejudices as is the prevailing case in our country.
The seminar ended with a vote of thanks from Vice Chancellor, Prof. Bazlul Mobin Chowdhury.
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