K A S MurshidK. A. S. Murshid is a Bangladeshi development economist with a distinguished career in academia and research leadership. He has made seminal contributions to the development literature particularly on agrarian markets and rural development and publised extensively in development journals including World Development, Journal of Agrarian Change, and Journal of Development Studies. He retired as the Director General of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies in early 2021. He has done high quality policy research on diverse topics including rural electrification, solar homes, informal finance, mobile financial systems, cross-border trade and transit, food policy, adolescent violence, and youth unemployment. Read More Read Less