Zeeshan Abedin

Economist 🎓 • Formerly w/ @GreenDelta1985, @BIGD_BRACU, @The_IGC, @IFPRI, @iubedu & @Deloitte • @UT_Dallas & @jindal_utdallas alumnus • @Adiba_Khaled's Husband

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

🏗️ Can public works programs solve youth unemployment?

With #Bangladesh's elections nearing, @bdbnp78's manifesto stresses "Job Creation for the Youth." But do such programs truly work?

@vox_dev examines the impact, limits & longterm effects of India’s #NREGA & Ethiopia’s #PSNP

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

How can public works reduce poverty beyond short-term jobs?

@Manisha_econ (@AreBerkeley) studies India’s massive rural employment programme, showing how infrastructure, wages and even satellite night-time lights reveal economy-wide effects – and why context really matters.

🔗⤵️

[Bangladesh Nationalist Party-BNP @bdbnp78]

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman today officially presented the BNP’s Election Manifesto-2026 for the upcoming 13th National Parliamentary Election to the nation at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel.

#Bangladesh #BNP #ElectionManifesto2026 #TariqueRahman #13thNationalElection

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it.”

New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him, just after he heard that he had been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry.

In this interview we speak about his early life as a refugee in Jordan and the overwhelming draw of the beauty of chemistry: “I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems.”

Listen now:

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

...as per @selimraihan, @MustafizurRh and @k_murshid among other eminent economists

[Deep Dive @DeepDive2018]

Bangladesh risks falling into the middle-income trap, facing economic stagnation despite progress. (1/5)

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

@AvinnoFaruk @DukeU @ubcVSE ...heartiest congratulations, Avinno!

[Josh Merfeld @Josh_Merfeld]

Does 37 still count as mid 30s? Asking for a friend.

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

@ishtiaqueSIA FAANG SEs took 'break(ing) a leg' in its literal sense, it seems 😐

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@RiversidedotFM @AliAbdaal

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@causalinf ...ditto; my wife and I saw it with our two girls ...loved it for more reasons than I can list

[Princeton Economics @PrincetonEcon]

It's an #EconTwitter giveaway to celebrate the release of STREETS OF GOLD by Ran Abramitzky & @leah_boustan!

To enter:
- RT this post
- Comment below with your favorite book about economics or by an economist

We'll DM winners later this week & @public_affairs will send a book!

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

@PrincetonEcon @leah_boustan @public_affairs ‘Policymaker's Journal’ by @kaushikcbasu

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

...won't complain as much as I would attest to it since that is where guys like I come in and we still – albeit indirectly perhaps – get to be part of knowledge creation and evidence generation

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

Academics would double our productivity if we learnt some basic project management skills that are bog standard in the industry. We have this myth that scholarly success is all about brilliance and creativity, but in fact 90% of it is getting sh*t done, same as any other job.

[Inactive; Bluesky is @hillelwayne(dot)com @hillelogram]

The biggest reason Excel is the most popular layfolk programming language is that its UX and IDE is miles miles miles better than any other language

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

...time to sequence some sort of an expertise prior to all my random curiosity

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

All expertise becomes outdated if isn’t supplemented with healthy dose of random curiosity.

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

"...dive down ...sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you"

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

@akbarpour_ ...not sure if this has already been coined by somebody else here, but my suggestion is 'Digital Market Design'

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

Congratulations, @BimanAirlines on turning 50.
#biman #Airlines #aviation

[Boeing Airplanes @BoeingAirplanes]

Congratulations to Biman Bangladesh Airlines on their 50th anniversary! We look forward to many more years of partnership and growth.

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

The initiative to build a #digitalbangladesh as the premise of Vision 2021 was announced on 12/12/2008. Today – 13 years later – we celebrated Digital Bangladesh Day 2021.

@BIGD_bracu marked the day by launching a landscape review of digital innovations https://t.co/0Hd5WWShu9

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

"...commitment to support global air transport recovery and to promote innovation in aviation"

#CivilAviationDay @icao @IATA

[Salvatore Sciacchitano @SalvatoSciacchi]

Today, 7 December, we celebrate International Civil Aviation Day. On this occasion, @icao reaffirms its commitment to support global air transport recovery and to promote innovation in aviation for its continuously safe, secure and sustainable development.

[Zeeshan Abedin @abedinz]

...heartiest congratulations to Adnan bhāi (@adnanqk) who was not only a colleague and mentor at the @The_IGC but with whom I also got to work closely, along with @rambletastic and @SardarFerdous, on a research project for GoB's Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) .

[LSE School of Public Policy @LSEPublicPolicy]

A huge congratulations to our Academic Director, Professor @adnanqk who has been appointed as Chief Economist at @FCDOGovUK from January 2022.

You’ll be missed by all of us at @LSEPublicPolicy and @LSEnews!