Before coming to IFPRI in 1976, Raisuddin Ahmed served the government of his native Bangladesh as deputy chief of the Agriculture and Water Resources Division of the Planning Commission and as chief agricultural economist of the Ministry of Agriculture. Formerly director of the Markets and Structural Studies Division, Ahmed has been involved in research on food marketing and pricing policies in Asia and Africa. He also has been examining the effects of infrastructure on agricultural productivity, rural employment, and rural income distribution. He received an M.A. in economics and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Michigan State University, an M.S. in agricultural economics from the American University in Beirut, and a B.S. in agricultural sciences from Dhaka University.

• Priorities for Public Investment in Agriculture and Rural Areas, and Appropriate Institutional Arrangements

• Retrospects and prospects of the rice economy of Bangladesh
  Ahmed, Raisuddin. ix, 128 p. -- Dhaka, Bangladesh: The University Press Limited. 2001.
• Out of the shadow of famine : evolving food markets and food policy in Bangladesh.
  Ahmed, Raisuddin, ed.; Haggblade, Steve, ed.; Chowdhury, Tawfiq-e-Elahi, ed. xvii, 307 p. : ill., map, tables ; 24 cm. -- Baltimore, MD: Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute [by] Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000.
• Structural adjustment and food security in developing Asian economies
  Ahmed, Raisuddin. In Proceedings of the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) Study Meeting on Structural Adjustment and Food Security -- Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization (APO). 2000.