Stories written by Anis Chowdhury
                                                                                                                                                                  Anis Chowdhury spent eight years at the United Nations Secretariat in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) in New York.                                                                                                                                                                   In between he worked at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) in Bangkok as Director of Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division and Director of Statistics Division. Previously, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Western Sydney and taught also at the Universities of Singapore, New England, Australia and Manitoba, Canada, He was the founding managing editor of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy where he remains on its editorial board as a co-editor. He has published widely on East and Southeast Asia, and on macro-development, labour market, and income distribution issues. He holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and honours and master’s degrees from Jahangirnagar University of Bangladesh.