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Gazi Quamrul Hasan

Research Director, White Globe Initiative — applied macroeconomics and public debt sustainability.

Gazi Quamrul Hasan
Biography

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.

Areas of Expertise
Applied Macroeconomics Public Debt Sustainability Fiscal & Monetary Policy Domestic Resource Mobilization Microeconometrics
Selected Publications

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

Book

Coming soon

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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.

by Atikur Rahman, with Gazi Quamrul Hasan
Ongoing Research and Thesis Supervision

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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