Gazi Quamrul Hasan
Research Director, White Globe Initiative — applied macroeconomics and public debt sustainability.
Gazi is the Research Director of White Globe Initiative, where he leads the organization's research programme — setting the research agenda, designing study protocols, and overseeing empirical work and quality assurance across projects, including a commissioned study for Japan Tobacco International estimating demand and supply elasticities. He is also an Economist at the Policy Research Institute (PRI), where he conducts quantitative research for the Domestic Resource Mobilization Centre and has built a calibrated macro model to simulate public debt, tax revenue, and inflation scenarios, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at East West University, where he has taught since 2012. He holds an M.S.S. and B.S.S. in Economics from the University of Dhaka, both with First Class honours, and has prepared macroeconomic stability frameworks for Bangladesh's Eighth and Seventh Five Year Plans, the Perspective Plan 2041, and the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100.
Recent work
Reforming the Supplementary Duty in Bangladesh: The Case of the Beverage Sector
with Hafiz Choudhury, Bazlul H. Khondker & Biplob Kumar Nandi · PRI Policy Insights, June 2026
A Tale of the Financial Inclusion-Growth Nexus
with B.K. Nandi & M.H. Kabir · Journal of Financial Economic Policy, Vol. 14(3), 2022
On the Motor Vehicle Agreement
with Karim · BIISS Journal, Vol. 36(2), 2015
Univariate Time Series Forecasting
with B.K. Nandi & M. Chaudhury · East West Journal of Business and Social Studies, 2015
Coming soon
Data Starts with a Question
Learning Stata by Reading Survey Questionnaires
From the questionnaire to household income and expenditure, with the HIES 2022 microdata of Bangladesh.
Current projects
Inflation Targeting under Fiscal Dominance: A Non-Linear Debt–Inflation Nexus
Undergraduate thesis supervision · East West University
Oil Price Pass-Through to Inflation: How Administered Price Setting Distorts Symmetry in Consumer Price Adjustment amid Fluctuations in the Exchange Rate
Undergraduate thesis supervision · East West University
Adverse Selection and/or Moral Hazard: Evidence from the Household Income and Expenditure Survey on Safety-Net Programmes in Bangladesh
Undergraduate thesis supervision · East West University
Divergence from Homotheticity in Utility: Evidence from the Household Income and Expenditure Survey on Consumption Patterns across Income Demographics
Undergraduate thesis supervision · East West University
Get in Touch
Reach Gazi directly at gazi@whiteglobeinitiative.org, or route a formal inquiry through Contact Us.
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