R Widanage
Job Title
Name of Organization
Primary Email
Formally, Senior Lecturer in Economics
University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka
wrupa21@gmail.com
Brief Biography
Rupananda Widanage
Field of Interests
My area of expertise includes Rural Development, Industrial Organization, Agricultural and Resource Economics, and Micro Econometrics.
Fields of Expertise
- Agricultural Economics
- Climate Change
- Environmental Management
- Food Security, Safety and Certification
- Integrated Rural Development
- Natural Resource Management
- Resource Economics
- Rural Development
- Water Resources Management
Current Research Projects
A Review of Agricultural and Non-agricultural Real Income for Investigating Food and Nutrition Security Policy in Bangladesh
Key Publications
Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh (with Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi and Dilip Mookherjee), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming. Decomposing rural income into sectors to identify their likely contributions in rural poverty reduction in Bangladesh (with Nurul Islam), Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development, Volume 29, Issue 2, December 2019. Competition Assessment using Pass through of Raw Sugar Prices from the Global Market, Asia Pacific Journal on Environment and Development, Volume 28-31, Special Issue, 2019.
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Risks for the Female Workers Engaged in Shrimp Processing Industry in Bangladesh (with M. Nuruzzaman) Asian Fisheries Science Special Issue, 30S (2017): 181-198.
Do Consumers Benefit from Supply Chain Intermediaries: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Edible Oils Market in Bangladesh (with Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi and Dilip Mookherjee), Policy Research Working Paper – WPS 7745, 2016, World Bank, Washington DC.
Connecting Farmers to Consumers: Trading in High Value Products in Bangladesh (with Forhad Shilpi, M.N. Hoque and J. Yao), 2015.
Background paper for “Dynamics of Rural Growth in Bangladesh” GFADR, World Bank, Washington DC