• Flexible Micro Finance Program: Effectiveness and Efficiency to Reach the Extreme Poor, Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics, Vol 10, Issue 20, November 2017 (With M. A. Baqui Khalily, M. A. Khaleque, and Syeda Nafisa Nawal).
• Access to Credits and Erosive or Non-Erosive Coping Strategies: An Empirical Analysis in Bangladesh, Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics, Vol 10, Issue 19, May 2017. (With Sabiha Mohona and Iftekher Chowdhury).
• Risks, Coping and Roles of Access to Financial Services, Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics. Volume 16, July 2016. (With Baqui Khalily).
• Mother’s Education and Child Health: Is There Any Threshold? The Developing Economies, Volume 54 Number 3, September 2016 (with Kazi Iqbal).
• Economic Shocks and Coping Strategies: Evidence from Bangladesh with Baqui Khalili and Mehadi Hasan, Working Paper 45, Institute of Microfinance Working Paper Series, Dhaka, December 2016.
• Are Decentralized Governments More Effective in Mitigating Disaster Risks? (with Kazi Iqbal, Bangladesh Development Studies, Volume-38, No. 3, 2015.
• How Sustainable are the Microfinance Institutions? Evidence from SAARC Countries, The Cost and Management, Volume 43, Number 2, March, 2015.
• Domestic Violence and Human Capital Investment, Proceedings of the second International Conference on Sustainable Systems and the Environment (ISSE 14), American University of Sharjah, UAE, February 12 -13, 2014.
• Vulnerability to Shocks and Coping Strategies in Rural Bangladesh, with S.R. Osmani, Working Paper 21, Institute of Microfinance Working Paper Series, Dhaka, December 2013.
• Dynamics of Poverty in Rural Bangladesh: Report of the Benchmark Survey; with S.R. Osmani, Latif, A. Sen, B, Rahman, R. I.,Khan, T.F., and Islam, R., Research Report, Institute of Microfinance, Dhaka 2013.
• Empowerment of Women and Investment in Health, Proceedings on International Conference on gender Empowerment, Jakarta Indonesia, July 2012.
• Performance and Impact of Microfinance Institutions, Chapter 3, Microfinance in SAARC Countries, Overview Report, Institute of Microfinance, Dhaka. 2010.
• A Study on Remittances Flows and Utilization, 2002, co-authored with K.A.S Murshid and Kazi Iqbal; International Organization for Migration (IOM), Regional Office for South Asia, Funded by UNDP.

• Associate Editor, Volume 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, Encyclopedia of the Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming the World We Want, Professor Walter Leal, Editor-in-Chief, World Sustainability Series, Springer International Publishing. 2019.
• Resilience in Action: Exploring Challenges and Solutions to Climate Change in Bangladesh, Edited by Samiya Ahmed Selim, Basundhara Tripathy and Meherun Ahmed, University Press Limited, Bangladesh, 2019.

• Assimilation of Stateless Rohingyas in Bangladesh, in Citizenship, Nationalism and Refugeehood of Rohingyas in Southern Asia, Edited by Nasreen Chowdhor and Biswajit Mohanty, Springer International Publishing, July 2020.
• Desolate and Deplorable Future for the Stateless Rohingya Ethnic Minority? NGO Intervention in Refugee Camps in Bangladesh, submitted to Routledge Handbook of Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia Pacific, edited by Gül Inanç and Themba Lewis. Routledge Publishing. (Forthcoming 2021) (With Suparna Das)
• Health Consequences of COVID-19 in Camps of Cox’s Bazar: A Looming Catastrophe? submitted to Living with Uncertainties: The Rohingya in the Place of Migration and Beyond, edited by, Nasir Uddin, Sage Publishing, (forthcoming June 2021) (With Sayda Barkha and Mahreen Mustafa)
• Chowdhury S.A., Mustafa M., Ahmed M., Jahan N. (2020) Community-Based Socioeconomic Development Programs: A Catalyst for SDGs. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Wall T. (eds) Decent Work and Economic Growth. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71058-7_70-1
• Ahmed M., Nawal S.N., Bhangle P. (2021) Impact of Good Governance on Disaster Risk Management. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A.M., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Özuyar P.G., Wall T. (eds) Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71066-2_95-1
• Ahmed M. (2019) Health and Well-Being of Climate Migrants in Slum Areas of Dhaka. In: Leal Filho W., Wall T., Azul A., Brandli L., Özuyar P. (eds) Good Health and Well-Being. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/
• 1007/978-3-319-69627-0_63-1
• Climate Change and Adaptation Practices in Bangladesh: A Review of Current Literature in Resilience in Action: Exploring Challenges and Solutions to Climate Change in Bangladesh, Edited by Samiya Ahmed Selim, Basundhara Tripathy and Meherun Ahmed, University Press Limited, Bangladesh 2019.
• Engaging Rural Women in Entrepreneurship Through an Innovative and Sustainable Dairy Model. In: Leal Filho W., Mifsud M., Pace P. (eds) Handbook of Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development. World Sustainability Series. Springer, 2018 (with Chowdhury S.A., Chowdhury M.F.)
• Migration as a Coping Strategy, in Changing Nature of Forced Migration: Vulnerabilities and Responsibilities in South and South-East Asia, Edited by Sara Amin et. al., University Press Limited, Bangladesh 2016
• Vulnerability to Shocks and Coping Strategies, in Poverty and Vulnerability in Rural Bangladesh, Edited by S.R. Omani, University Press Limited, Bangladesh 2015.
• Empowerment of Women and Investment in Health: A Relative Comparison Between Bangladesh and Nigeria in Gender Empowerment for Social Life and Harmonious Living, Edited by Erna Surajadi and Meat Hatta Swasono, Sriya Harapan Jagra Publishing, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2014.

• Flexible Micro Finance Program: Effectiveness and Efficiency to Reach the Extreme Poor, Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics, Vol 10, Issue 20, November 2017 (With M. A. Baqui Khalily, M. A. Khaleque, and Syeda Nafisa Nawal)
• Access to Credits and Erosive or Non-Erosive Coping Strategies: An Empirical Analysis in Bangladesh, Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics, Vol 10, Issue 19, May 2017. (With Sabiha Mohona and Iftekher Chowdhury)
• Risks, Coping and Roles of Access to Financial Services, Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics. Volume 16, July 2016. (With Baqui Khalily)
• Mother’s Education and Child Health: Is There Any Threshold? The Developing Economies, Volume 54 Number 3, September 2016 (with Kazi Iqbal)
• Economic Shocks and Coping Strategies: Evidence from Bangladesh with Baqui Khalili and Mehadi Hasan, Working Paper 45, Institute of Microfinance Working Paper Series, Dhaka, December 2016.
• Are Decentralized Governments More Effective in Mitigating Disaster Risks? (with Kazi Iqbal, Bangladesh Development Studies, Volume-38, No. 3, 2015.
• How Sustainable are the Microfinance Institutions? Evidence from SAARC Countries, The Cost and Management, Volume 43, Number 2, March, 2015.
• Domestic Violence and Human Capital Investment, Proceedings of the second International Conference on Sustainable Systems and the Environment (ISSE 14), American University of Sharjah, UAE, February 12 -13, 2014.
• Vulnerability to Shocks and Coping Strategies in Rural Bangladesh, with S.R. Osmani, Working Paper 21, Institute of Microfinance Working Paper Series, Dhaka, December 2013.
• Dynamics of Poverty in Rural Bangladesh: Report of the Benchmark Survey; with S.R. Osmani, Latif, A. Sen, B, Rahman, R. I.,Khan, T.F., and Islam, R., Research Report, Institute of Microfinance, Dhaka 2013.
• Empowerment of Women and Investment in Health, Proceedings on International Conference on gender Empowerment, Jakarta Indonesia, July 2012.
• Performance and Impact of Microfinance Institutions, Chapter 3, Microfinance in SAARC Countries, Overview Report, Institute of Microfinance, Dhaka. 2010
• A Study on Remittances Flows and Utilization, 2002, co-authored with K.A.S Murshid and Kazi Iqbal; International Organization for Migration (IOM), Regional Office for South Asia, Funded by UNDP.

• Discrimination, Gender Based Violence and Disproportionate Access to Aid:
• Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Worsened the Status of Rohingya Women and Adolescent Girls in the World’s Largest Refugee Camps? (Revise and Resubmit, Refugee Review, with Samanta Sharmin)
• Risks and Coping Mechanisms, in “Inclusive Finance and Development in Bangladesh”, Edited by Baqui Khalili, (Submitted to Palgrave MacMillan for review).
• Entrepreneurship and Women Empowerment, submitted to International Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies, (with Shahana Chowdhury and Nafisa Nawal)
• COVID 19 Pandemic and Coping Strategies of Garments Workers in Bangladesh (with Farzana Munshi)
• COVID 19 in Camps (With Maureen Mustafa)
• Economic Integration of the Refugees in Bangladesh (With Suparna Das, Didarul Hasan and Iftekher Chowdhury)
• Compensating Wage Differentials in Ship Breaking Yards in Bangladesh (With Md. Nur Nabi, Varuni Ganepola and Suparna Das)
• Socio Economic Determinants of Congenital Child Deformity (With Suparna Das, Shahana Chowdhury, Sayda Barkha, Maliha Chowdhury and Sadia Maisha)
• Households Willingness to Pay to Avoid Water Logging: A Case study in Chittagong City Corporation (With Moinul Islam and Md Nur Nobi)
• Determinants of Health Risk of Adolescent Mothers and Their Children (with Shahana Chowdhury, Sayda Barkha and Kaoser Siddique)
• Health Risks and Social Vulnerabilities of Climate Migrants due to Unplanned Urbanization of Dhaka City (With Sadia Islam, Shahana Chowdhury)
• Environmental Migration, livelihood and Socioeconomic Condition of Slum Dwellers in Chittagong and Dhaka: A comparative Study (With Moinul Islam and Mohammad Nur Nobi)

• External Reviewer, Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, The Research and Evaluation Division (RED), BRAC, March 2016.
• Team Member, Evaluation of the “Restoring Socio-Economic Stability and Strengthening Community Resilience in Areas Affected by the Cyclone AILA” Project, The European Union Disaster Management Program in Bangladesh, implemented by BRAC, conducted by The Foundation for Research on Educational Planning and Development (FREPD), April 2012.
• Team Member, Jante Chai- learning by doing and knowledge sharing among youth in Bangladesh, The World Bank, Washington DC, 2011.
• Team Member, Study on Access to Financial Services, Institute of Microfinance, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh, 2010-2011.
• Team Member, Impact of PRIME intervention in Greater Rangpur, Institute of Microfinance, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2009-2010.
• Team Member, Dynamics of Poverty in Rural Bangladesh: A Longitudinal Study, Institute of Microfinance, Dhaka, 2010-2011.
• Team Member, An Evaluation of Micro Finance Program of Plan Bangladesh: Effectiveness and Efficiency to Reach the Extreme Poor, Plan International Bangladesh, Dhaka, 2010.

• “Measurement and Evaluation Workshop”, IKEA Foundation, New Delhi, India. 26-28 October, 2015.
• “Fifth South Asian Training Program on CGE Modeling”, Kathmandu, Nepal, 27-31 August 2012.
• “Women and Economic Growth: Making Investments Count for the Future” Salzburg Global Seminar, Schloss Leopoldskron, 5020 Salzburg, Austria, October 17- October 22, 2010.
• UNL Teaching Innovation Program, TIP Workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Endicott House, Dedham (Boston), Massachusetts, USA, June 8-10, 2007.
• CeMENT: Mentoring for Junior Faculty, The Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, American Economic Association, New York, USA, February 25-26 2007.
• New Faculty Teaching Workshop, Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA, Nov28-Dec1, 2006.
• Stanford Workshop in Formal Demography, Stanford University, California, USA. 8-19 August 2005.

• The Assimilation of the Rohingya Communities in Bangladesh, AAS-in-Asia 2019 Annual Conference, July 1-4, 2019, Bangkok
• The Assimilation of the Rohingya Communities in Bangladesh, International Studies Association, March 27-30, 2019, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Whither Refugees? Restrictionism, Crises and Precocity Writ Large, 17th conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), Thessaloniki, Greece, 24th to the 27th of July 2018
• 4th National Conference on Natural Science and Technology (NCNST’17). Asian University for Women. 24-25 March, 2017. Chittagong.
• Bangladesh toward Upper Middle Income Country Status: Challenges and Opportunities, The Department of Economics, North South University (NSU), 12-13 March, 2017. Dhaka.
• Engaging Rural Women in Entrepreneurship through an Innovative and Sustainable Dairy Model, World Symposium on Lifelong Learning & Sustainable Development, University of Malta, Valletta Campus, Malta, 2-4 March 2017. (with Shahana Chowdhury, Momtaz Faruki Chowdhury), (Received Best Paper Award)
• International Conference on Sustainable Development 2017. University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, February 9-10, 2017, Dhaka
• The Hugo Conference on Environment, Migration and Politics, University of Liège, Belgium on 3-5 November 2016.
• Rethinking Forced Migration and Displacement: Theory, Policy, and Praxis, 12-15 July 2016, Poznań, Poland
• International Conference on Sustainable Development 2016. University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, February 2-3, 2016, Dhaka
• 3rd International Conference on Natural Science & Technology (NCNST- 2016), Asian University for Women, Chittagong, 15-16 April, 2016.
• Invited lecture on “Research Methods and Impact Analysis”, Institute of Microfinance, Dhaka, Bangladesh, May11-May 29, 2014.
• The second International Conference on Sustainable Systems and the Environment (ISSE 14), American University of Sharjah, UAE, February 12 -13, 2014. (Paper Accepted)
• Grassroots Women’s Political Leadership Forum, South Asia Regional Summit on Women’s Political Leadership, Chittagong, Bangladesh (Sponsored by Asian University for Women and U.S. Department of State), September 9-19, 2012
• International Conference on Gender Empowerment, Jakarta, Indonesia, July 11-13, 2012
• Population Association of America, San Francisco, USA, May 2-5, 2012.
• Changing Nature of Forced Migration: Vulnerabilities and Responsibilities in South and South-East Asia, Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh, Sept 23- 24, 2011.
• Complexities of South Asian Migration Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada May 18-21, 2011.
• Anadolu International Conference in Economics II, Eskişehir, Turkey, 15-17 June 2011. (Paper Accepted)
• 13th conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, Kampala, Uganda, 3-6 July 2011.
• International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and the Environment, Sharjah-UAE, March 23-24, 2011
• Fifth African Population Conference, Union for African Population Studies, Tanzania, December 10-14, 2007.
• Population Association of America Annual Meeting, New York, USA, March 29-31, 2007
• 2007 Midwest Economic Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, March 23-25, 2007.
• 4th Minnesota International Economic Development Conference in Minneapolis, USA, May 4 – 5, 2007.
• 81st Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International in San Diego, California. USA, July 4-8, 2006.
• Pacific Conference for Development Economics, Santa Clara University, USA, March 4, 2006.
• 75th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association in Washington DC, USA, November 18-20, 2005.
• 80th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International in San Francisco,

California. USA, July 4-8, 2005.

• Research Grant, Asian University for Women, Socio-Economic Assimilation of the Stateless Rohingya Communities in Bangladesh, USD 2000. 2018-2019.
• Travel Grant, 17th conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), Whither Refugees? Restrictionism, Crises and Precarity Writ Large, Thessaloniki, Greece, 24th to the 27th of July 2018
• Travel Grant, The Hugo Conference: Environment, Migration and Politics, Liège, Belgium, 3-5 November 2016.
• Travel Grant, 16th conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference Rethinking Forced Migration and Displacement: Theory, Policy, and Praxis, Poznań, Poland, 12-15 July 2016.
• AIBS Research Fellowship, 2017, The American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Bangladesh and University of Washington. (forfeited because of visa complications)
• Institute of Microfinance, Reducing Vulnerability and Non Erosive Savings and Income Shocks, 2013-2014.
• Research Grant, Asian University for Women, 2010 and 2012.
• Institute of Microfinance, Bangladesh: Competition or Cooperation? Spatial Growth of NGOs in Bangladesh. (with Kazi Iqbal), 2009-2010.
• Carleton College, Smith/NEH Fellowship. Intra-household Bargaining and Schooling and Long-run Health Status of the Children, Female Health and Fertility Outcomes. (Term Long Fellowship). 2009-2010.
• QuIRK Course Revision Grant, Carleton College, 2008
• Summer Research Fund, The Dean of the College Office (Beverly Nagel), Carleton College, 2008.
• Rachel Storer Award in Labor Economics, Department of Economics, University of Washington. 2005 (Best paper award in Labor Economics).
• CSDE Summer Fellowship for International Development Research. Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. University of Washington. 2005.
• GSFEI (The Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation) Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Washington, 2005.
• The Japan-IMF Scholarship Program for Advanced Studies, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, 2000-2002.
• S.S. Book Award, University of Dhaka, 1996.
• S.S. Scholarship, University of Dhaka, 1993-95.
• Merit Scholarship, Dhaka Board, 1985-1992.