1st Edition
COVID-19 and South Asia's Economic Landscape Impacts and Lessons Learned
COVID-19 and South Asia: An overview
Selim Raihan and Iyanatul Islam
1. Assessing the trade–connectivity linkages in South Asia in post-pandemic period: An empirical investigation
Prabir De and Durairaj Kumarasamy
2. COVID-19 effects and home-grown policy response in Sri Lanka
Ganeshan Wignaraja
3. Responding to the economic consequences of COVID 19 in Pakistan: Lessons learnt
Vaqar Ahmed
4. Poverty dynamics in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic: Who falls back and who graduates out?
Selim Raihan, Mahtab Uddin and Md. Tuhin Ahmed
5. The macroeconomic effects of COVID-19 vaccinations in five Asian countries
George Verikios, Tara Shridhar and Tilak Susantha Liyanaarachchi
6. COVID-19, trade and gender in Bangladesh
Bazlul Haque Khondker and Laetitia Pettinotti
7. Analyzing monetary policies and bank credit in Indonesia’s provincial clusters amidst COVID-19 pandemic
Sugiharso Safuan, Eric Alexander Sugandi, Muzafar Shah Habibullah and Gregory A. James
Biography
Selim Raihan is Professor at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Executive Director of South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM). Holding a PhD from Manchester, his expertise spans international trade, poverty, macroeconomics, and climate change. He has published extensively in prestigious academic journals and contributed chapters to numerous scholarly books.
Iyanatul (Yan) Islam, PhD (Cambridge), is Professor (Adjunct), Griffith Asia Institute, Brisbane, Australia, a Distinguished Fellow at the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM), Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a former Branch Chief, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland. He is one of the founding editors of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Economy (Routledge). Professor Islam is the author of more than 100 publications.
