Dr. Md. Deen Islam is an associate professor of economics at the University of Dhaka. His research interests include development economics, applied international trade, Macroeconomics, and urban economics. He completed BSS and MSS in economics from the University of Dhaka and obtained PhD in economics from Boston University. He was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Global Policy Development (GDP) center at Boston University. He was a part of a multidisciplinary team and contributed to two studies investigating the implications of Bangladesh’s LDC graduation on access to essential medicines in Bangladesh. These two studies have recently been published in peer-reviewed journals. Currently, he is involved in several studies investigating the implications of LDC graduation for Bangladesh. In addition, he has expertise in impact evaluation and causal analysis research to examine the effectiveness of development interventions. In particular, he uses structural and micro-econometric techniques to draw inferences from the household survey and administrative data. He has experience working with impoverished people’s education, health, and livelihoods and has published on poverty, inequality, child labor, and other development issues. Additionally, he has several publications on macroeconomic issues, such as the long-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment and the fiscal multiplier. He has worked as a consultant for the Center on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP), Dhaka, RTI International, North Carolina, USA, and the Bureau of Economic Research (BER) of the University of Dhaka. BER has funded his several research project on poverty mapping, identifying determinants of child labor, analyzing the constraints to women entrepreneurship, Covid-19 impact on households’ catastrophic health expenditure, and female participation at the tertiary level of education.