Shahrukh Rafi Khan

Visiting Professor of Economics

Specialization
Trade and the environment/sustainable development; participatory development/collective action; social capital and child labor; economics of education; trade and industrialization strategies; devolution

Shahrukh Rafi Khan served as executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad from 1996 to 2002. His book Pakistan under Musharraf (1999-2002): Economic and Political Reforms (2004, Vanguard Press) is based on research conducted while heading the institute. He also is also coauthor of Hazardous Home-Based Sub-Contracted Work: A Study of Multiple-Tiered Exploitation (OUP, 2005).

Oxford University Press is expected to publish Khan’s Basic Education in Rural Pakistan: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Government, Private, and NGO Schools, in 2005 and Devolution of Power to the Grassroots level: Forgetting the Power Structure in 2006. Meahwhile, he has submitted a book on social capital for rural development for review to Earthscan.

Khan’s other books include Profit and Loss Sharing: An Economic Analysis of an Islamic Financial System (OUP, 1987); Do World Bank and IMF Policies Work? (Macmillan/St. Martins, 1999); and Reforming Pakistan's Political Economy (Vanguard, 1999). Books edited or co-edited by Khan include Higher Education and Employment: Opportunities in Pakistan (UNESCO, 1988); Just Development (OUP, 1997); and International Trade and the Environment: Difficult Policy Choices at the Interface (Zed Press, 2003).

Khan has taught economics at the University of Utah, the State University of New York, and Vassar College.