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Born in Bangladesh (1933), Professor Muhammad Anisur Rahman
was trained in Economics at Dhaka University and Harvard
University. Initially a theoretical economist he taught at Dhaka
University and Islamabad University at Rawalpindi, Pakistan
where he founded its Institute of Social Science and its
Department of Economics.
Joining the first Planning Commission
of Bangladesh after the country's liberation Anisur Rahman got
involved with self-reliant grassroots development initiatives in
the country stimulated by the inspiration of the liberation war,
and transcended the boundaries of economics to become a "student
of life" as he puts it. Since then he has been advocating
"people's self-development" challenging conventional 'top-down'
development thinking.
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