Climate Change & Water Scarcity: Islamul Haque and Mushfiq Mobarak on crafting research based on community needs in Bangladesh
Voices in Development: A Podcast from Yale's Economic Growth Center explores issues related to sustainable development and economic justice in low- and middle-income countries. In this episode, host Catherine Cheney speaks with Islamul Haque and Mushfiq Mobarak about their new project focusing on the water crisis in Bangladesh – and the importance of conducting development research based on the needs on the ground.
Mushfiq Mobarak takes part in the discussion at the 32nd Kuznets Memorial Lecture.
About the Guests
Mushfiq Mobarak is the Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Professor Mobarak has several ongoing research projects in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sierra Leone. He conducts field experiments exploring ways to induce people in developing countries to adopt technologies or behaviors that are likely to be welfare-improving. He also examines the complexities of scaling up development interventions that are proven effective in such trials.
Islamul Haque is a postdoctoral associate at Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). His current research focuses on understanding the frictions that limit climate change adaptation in developing countries, designing solutions to address these challenges, and generating evidence on their effectiveness and scaling complexities. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Southern California.
Shrimp aquaculture in a laboon in Satkhira, Bangladesh. Photo by Arlo Magicman.