Quamrul Alam is Professor of International Business and Strategy at Central Queensland University. Before joining Central Queensland University, Professor Alam worked at Monash University, La Trobe University and Victoria University of Australia. He has a strong research and project management background and has published over 50 journal articles, presented over 100 conference papers and reports, written six books and 21 book chapters, and chaired many sessions in international public management and governance conferences. Professor Alam has supervised 20 PhD research topics including public governance, regulatory governance, public sector leadership, public– private partnership, economic geography and international business, and local government and disaster management.Rizwan Khair is currently working as a faculty member in the South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance of North South University. A former career civil servant, he also served as Member Directing Staff in Bangladesh Public Administration Centre (BPATC) and was Director of the Institute of Governance Studies (IGS), now known as BIGD of BRAC University. His research interests and writings include public policy, public sector management and reforms, governance, human resource management, managing development and GO- NGO relations. His recent publications include co- editor of Managing Change for Better Public Service Delivery (Routledge) and ‘Participatory policy process in Bangladesh: Efforts in search of participatory governance?’ in Public Service Delivery in Bangladesh: Public Policy and Local Government (UPL, Bangladesh).Asif M. Shahan is currently working as an associate professor at the Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka. He completed his PhD in Political Science and MPA from George Mason University, USA. His key areas of research are: politics– administration relationships, the emergence, evolution and performance of democratic political institutions, especially the institutions of accountability, performance- based accountability and the politics of policy process.

• Introduction 1. State and Class: The Paradox of Development and Underdevelopment 2. Bangladesh Paradox: The Political Logic of Economic Development 3. The Development State: The Bangladesh Experience 4. Civil Society Organizations in Post-colonial Bangladesh: A Coalition with Business, Civil-military Bureaucracy and Partisan Politics 5. A historical analysis of the formation of the Bangladesh public administration as an institutionally complex system 6. Institutions and Economic Development in Bangladesh: Case Study of the Political Economy of Banks and Financial Institutions (BFIs) 7. Infrastructure and Development Aspirations of Bangladesh 8. Industrial Development Policies and Performances in the Post Independent Period 9. Urban Informal Credit Markets in Bangladesh 10. Banking Sector in Bangladesh after Financial Liberalization: Promises and Realities 11. The Global Energy Crisis and South Asia - Challenges for the Future 12. The social class relationship and agrarian transformation in Bangladesh 13. Urbanisation, Governance, and Informality 14. Digitalization of Public Service Delivery: Impacts on Economic and Social Development in Bangladesh 15. Transformation of Rural Bangladesh: Land, Labor, Credit and Agriculture 16. Sustainability and Climate Change: The Bangladesh Scenario 17. Opportunities and Impediments of Women Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh 18. SDGs in the Era of the Pandemic: Impacts, Implications, and Improvement Insights from Bangladesh 19. Impact of Migrant Workers' Remittances on Rural Bangladesh: A Migrant Smiling Curve Perspective 20. The Way Forward

Quamrul Alam is Professor of International Business and Strategy at Central Queensland University. Before joining Central Queensland University, Professor Alam worked at Monash University, La Trobe University and Victoria University of Australia. He has a strong research and project management background and has published over 50 journal articles, presented over 100 conference papers and reports, written six books and 21 book chapters, and chaired many sessions in international public management and governance conferences. Professor Alam has supervised 20 PhD research topics including public governance, regulatory governance, public sector leadership, public– private partnership, economic geography and international business, and local government and disaster management.Rizwan Khair is currently working as a faculty member in the South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance of North South University. A former career civil servant, he also served as Member Directing Staff in Bangladesh Public Administration Centre (BPATC) and was Director of the Institute of Governance Studies (IGS), now known as BIGD of BRAC University. His research interests and writings include public policy, public sector management and reforms, governance, human resource management, managing development and GO- NGO relations. His recent publications include co- editor of Managing Change for Better Public Service Delivery (Routledge) and ‘Participatory policy process in Bangladesh: Efforts in search of participatory governance?’ in Public Service Delivery in Bangladesh: Public Policy and Local Government (UPL, Bangladesh).Asif M. Shahan is currently working as an associate professor at the Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka. He completed his PhD in Political Science and MPA from George Mason University, USA. His key areas of research are: politics– administration relationships, the emergence, evolution and performance of democratic political institutions, especially the institutions of accountability, performance- based accountability and the politics of policy process.

• Introduction 1. State and Class: The Paradox of Development and Underdevelopment 2. Bangladesh Paradox: The Political Logic of Economic Development 3. The Development State: The Bangladesh Experience 4. Civil Society Organizations in Post-colonial Bangladesh: A Coalition with Business, Civil-military Bureaucracy and Partisan Politics 5. A historical analysis of the formation of the Bangladesh public administration as an institutionally complex system 6. Institutions and Economic Development in Bangladesh: Case Study of the Political Economy of Banks and Financial Institutions (BFIs) 7. Infrastructure and Development Aspirations of Bangladesh 8. Industrial Development Policies and Performances in the Post Independent Period 9. Urban Informal Credit Markets in Bangladesh 10. Banking Sector in Bangladesh after Financial Liberalization: Promises and Realities 11. The Global Energy Crisis and South Asia - Challenges for the Future 12. The social class relationship and agrarian transformation in Bangladesh 13. Urbanisation, Governance, and Informality 14. Digitalization of Public Service Delivery: Impacts on Economic and Social Development in Bangladesh 15. Transformation of Rural Bangladesh: Land, Labor, Credit and Agriculture 16. Sustainability and Climate Change: The Bangladesh Scenario 17. Opportunities and Impediments of Women Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh 18. SDGs in the Era of the Pandemic: Impacts, Implications, and Improvement Insights from Bangladesh 19. Impact of Migrant Workers' Remittances on Rural Bangladesh: A Migrant Smiling Curve Perspective 20. The Way Forward

Quamrul Alam is Professor of International Business and Strategy at Central Queensland University. Before joining Central Queensland University, Professor Alam worked at Monash University, La Trobe University and Victoria University of Australia. He has a strong research and project management background and has published over 50 journal articles, presented over 100 conference papers and reports, written six books and 21 book chapters, and chaired many sessions in international public management and governance conferences. Professor Alam has supervised 20 PhD research topics including public governance, regulatory governance, public sector leadership, public– private partnership, economic geography and international business, and local government and disaster management.Rizwan Khair is currently working as a faculty member in the South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance of North South University. A former career civil servant, he also served as Member Directing Staff in Bangladesh Public Administration Centre (BPATC) and was Director of the Institute of Governance Studies (IGS), now known as BIGD of BRAC University. His research interests and writings include public policy, public sector management and reforms, governance, human resource management, managing development and GO- NGO relations. His recent publications include co- editor of Managing Change for Better Public Service Delivery (Routledge) and ‘Participatory policy process in Bangladesh: Efforts in search of participatory governance?’ in Public Service Delivery in Bangladesh: Public Policy and Local Government (UPL, Bangladesh).Asif M. Shahan is currently working as an associate professor at the Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka. He completed his PhD in Political Science and MPA from George Mason University, USA. His key areas of research are: politics– administration relationships, the emergence, evolution and performance of democratic political institutions, especially the institutions of accountability, performance- based accountability and the politics of policy process.

• Introduction 1. State and Class: The Paradox of Development and Underdevelopment 2. Bangladesh Paradox: The Political Logic of Economic Development 3. The Development State: The Bangladesh Experience 4. Civil Society Organizations in Post-colonial Bangladesh: A Coalition with Business, Civil-military Bureaucracy and Partisan Politics 5. A historical analysis of the formation of the Bangladesh public administration as an institutionally complex system 6. Institutions and Economic Development in Bangladesh: Case Study of the Political Economy of Banks and Financial Institutions (BFIs) 7. Infrastructure and Development Aspirations of Bangladesh 8. Industrial Development Policies and Performances in the Post Independent Period 9. Urban Informal Credit Markets in Bangladesh 10. Banking Sector in Bangladesh after Financial Liberalization: Promises and Realities 11. The Global Energy Crisis and South Asia - Challenges for the Future 12. The social class relationship and agrarian transformation in Bangladesh 13. Urbanisation, Governance, and Informality 14. Digitalization of Public Service Delivery: Impacts on Economic and Social Development in Bangladesh 15. Transformation of Rural Bangladesh: Land, Labor, Credit and Agriculture 16. Sustainability and Climate Change: The Bangladesh Scenario 17. Opportunities and Impediments of Women Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh 18. SDGs in the Era of the Pandemic: Impacts, Implications, and Improvement Insights from Bangladesh 19. Impact of Migrant Workers' Remittances on Rural Bangladesh: A Migrant Smiling Curve Perspective 20. The Way Forward