Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam
Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam Professor, Department of Economics

PROFILE

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Jahangirnagar University. He completed B.Sc(Hons.) and M.Sc in Economics from the Department of Economics, Jahangirnagar University. Later, he completed his M.Sc and PhD from IDEC, Hiroshima University, Japan. His home district is Jamalpur. 

His research area mainly focused on renewable energy, sustainable development, food security, and energy policy.

RESEARCH INTEREST

Renewable energy and Sustainable development

JOURNAL PAPER

Alam, M. J.; Rahman, M. L.; and Hussain, M. A., FDI in Natural Resources and Development: A Case Study of Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh, The Jahangirnagar Review, Part II: Social Science, XXXII, pp.61-69, 2008 (printed in June 2009).
Alam, M. J.; Rahman, M. L., An empirical study on food availability and food security: Perspective Bangladesh, The Jahangirnagar Review, Part II: Social Science, XXXIII, pp.325-330, 2009(printed in June 2012).
Rahman, M. L.; Alam, M. J., Financial Development and Economic Growth: Further Evidence from Bangladesh, 20, 2009.
Islam, M. S.; Alam, M. J., Education and Economic Growth: A Micro and Macro Level Empirical Study in Bangladesh, 21, 2010.
Alam, M. J.; Rahman, M. M.; and Kaneko, S., The decreasing trend of agricultural land in Bangladesh: Myth and facts, The Jahangirnagar Economic Review, 26, pp.85-96, 2015.
Alam, M. J.; Kaneko, S., The linkage between sources of lighting and earnings in Bangladesh: An empirical study, The Jahangirnagar Economic Review, 28, pp.111-127, 2017.
Alam, M. J.; Kaneko, S., Technology innovation and Changes of SHS Packages in Rural Bangladesh, The Jahangirnagar Review, Part II: Social Science, Vol. XLII, 2018.
Alam, M. J.; Kaneko, S., The Effects of Electrification on School Enrollment in Bangladesh: Short-and Long-Run Perspectives, Energies, 12, 4, pp.629, 2019. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/en12040629
Alam, M. J; Kloepfer, T. and Kaneko, S., Wage inequality in Bangladesh, 2000–2010: an unconditional quantile regression decomposition, Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, pp.1-18, 2019. doi: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1080/16081625.2019.1600420

CONFERENCE PAPER

Alam, M. J.; Kaneko, S., The impact of Solar Home System (SHS) on educational outcome in rural Bangladesh, JASID Conference, Hiroshima University, Japan, 2018.
Hiroshi, Z.; Alam, M. J.; and Kaneko, S., Exploring New Applications of Future Organic PV in Non-electrified Areas, International Conference of Grand Renewable Energy, Yokohama, Japan, 2018.
Alam, M. J.; Kaneko, S., The Impact of Electricity on School Enrollment in Bangladesh- A Propensity Score Matching Analysis, 16th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Naha, Japan, 2017.

Teaching

Course Code Course Title Semester/Year
ECON307 Political Economy of Underdevelopment, Gender and Poverty 3rd Year
ECON501 Microeconomics Masters student

Academic Info

Institute: Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan.
Period: 2014-2016

M.Sc

Institute: Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan.
Period: 2016-2019

PhD

Contact

Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam

Professor
Department of Economics
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.
Cell Phone: +8801716584127
Email: alamjahangireco@juniv.edu , alamjahangireco@gmail.com