SHAHRUKH RAFI KHAN
(203) 355-1884 (home)
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khans@mtholyoke.edu
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Education
Ph.D., Economics. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1983.
M.A., Development Economics. Williams College, 1976.
B.Sc (Hons.), Economics. University of London, The London School of Economics and
Political Science, 1973.
Research areas
Trade and the environment/sustainable development
Participatory development/collective action
Social capital
Child labor
Rural development
Micro-credit
Structural adjustment
Economics of education
Education and related labor market issues
Trade and industrialization strategies
Banking and finance
Choice of technique and project appraisal
Local government and devolution of power
Military and economy
International migration
Gender and development
Growth
Teaching of economics
Altruism
Teaching areas
Macro and micro principles and intermediate macro
Open economy macro
International trade
International economics
Economic development
Environmental economics
Comparative
History of economic thought
History of development thought
South Asian economic development
Economic globalization
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Employment Experience
2011- . Visiting Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College. Teaching seminars on
history of economic development thought and South Asian economic development,
environmental economics and macroeconomic principles.
2010-2011. Copeland Fellow in International Development, Amherst College
2004 – 2010. Visiting Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College. Teaching economic
development, seminars on economic globalization and South Asian economic development, and
macroeconomic principles.
2002-2004. Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of Utah. Teaching
responsibilities include history of economic thought, international, and macro principles.
1993-2002. Joined as Research Fellow, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad
in 1993.
Appointed Executive Director, in 1996. Tasks included securing core funding and funding for
research projects. Responsible for managing all internal aspects and external relations of the
Institute, in consultation and with and participation of the staff. Conducting research on
sustainable development policy. Providing overall supervision and leadership for the
Institute's research program. Maintaining a coherent and multi-disciplinary approach towards
the research program. Representing the interests of SDPI, presenting the results of sustainable
development research, and making policy recommendations to various national and
international bodies comprised of scientists, politicians, bureaucrats, intellectuals, and policy
makers.
1988-1993. Vassar College: Assistant Professor of Economics. Teaching, research and
committee work. Taught development, comparative, international and principles.
1987-1988. State University of New York, College at Oneonta: Visiting Assistant Professor of
Economics. Taught development, international, and principles.
1983-1987. Pakistan Institute of Development Economics: Research Economist; Section
Head, Public Policy. Opened up economics of education as a new research area. Participated in
conferences and carried out academic consulting to assist policy makers.
1981-1982. Eastern Michigan University: Lecturer in Economics. Taught micro and a course
on the US economy.
1974-1976. Pakistan Institute of Development Economics: Research Economist. Conducted
research on estimating parameters for social benefit-cost analysis such as the social discount rate
and shadow price of labor and land.
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Publications
Books
Authored
Khan, S. R. and A. S. Akhtar, with S. Bodla, 2014, The Military and Development Denied in the
Pakistani Punjab: An Eroding Social Consensus (London: Anthem Press).
Khan, S. R., 2014, A History of Development Economics Thought: Challenges and CounterChallenges (New York: Routledge).
Khan, S. R. et. al., 2009, Export Success and Industrial Linkages: The Case of Garment
Production in South Asia (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan).
Khan, S. R., S. Kazmi, Z. Rifaqat, 2007, Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital for Rural
Development (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan).
Khan, S. R, F. S. Khan, and A. S. Akhtar, 2007, Initiating devolution for service delivery in
Pakistan: forgetting the power structure (Karachi: Oxford University Press).
Khan, S. R., 2005, Basic Education in Rural Pakistan: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of
Government, Private, and NGO Schools (Karachi: Oxford University Press).
Khan, S. R., S. G. Khattak and S. Kazmi, 2005, Hazardous Home Based Sub-Contracted
Work: A Study of Multiple Tiered Exploitation. (Karachi: Oxford University Press).
Khan, S. R., 2004, Pakistan under Musharraf (1999-2002): Economic and Political Reforms
(Lahore, Pakistan: Vanguard Press).
Khan, S. R., 1999, Government, Communities and NGOs in Social Sector Delivery (Brookfield,
USA: Ashgate).
Khan, S. R., 1999, Reforming Pakistan's Political Economy (Lahore, Pakistan: Vanguard Press).
Khan, S. R., 1999, Do World Bank and IMF Policies Work? (London: Macmillan / St. Martins).
Khan, S. R. 1987, Profit and Loss Sharing: An Economic Analysis of an Islamic Financial
System (Karachi: Oxford University Press).
Edited
Eds. Khan, S. R. and J. Christiansen, 2010, Market as Means Rather than Master: Towards New
Developmentalism (London: Routledge).
Ed. Khan, S. R., 2002, International Trade and the Environment: Difficult Policy Choices at the
Interface (London: Zed Books).
Ed. Khan, S. R., 1999, Pakistan's Economy: Traditional Topics and Contemporary Concerns.
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(Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Eds. Banuri, T., S. R. Khan and M. Mahmood, 1997, Just Development: Protecting the
Vulnerable and Promoting Growth (Karachi: Oxford University Press).
Eds. Khan, S. R., et. al., 1987, Higher Education and Employment Opportunities in Pakistan
(Islamabad: International Institute of Educational Planning, UNESCO and University
Grants Commission, Ministry of Education, Pakistan).
Articles
Khan, S. R. and Shaheen R. Khan, “Microcredit in South Asia: Privileging Women’s
Perceptions and Voices” Progress in Development Studies, forthcoming.
Khan, S. R., 2014, “Looking Forward,” World Future Review,” Vol. 6, No 2.
Khan, S. R., 2013, “Discontinuous functions and environmental regulation,” International
Journal of Ecology and Development” Vol. 26, No. 3.
Khan, Shaheen R. and S. R. Khan, 2012, “Local support organizations: an exit strategy for
rural development NGOs,” Development Policy Review, Vol. 30, No. 3.
Khan, Shaheen R. and S. R. Khan, 2012, “Women faring well, filling vacated spaces, and
excelling in community development,” Development in Practice, Vol. 22, No. 2.
Khan, S. R., 2011, “Growth Diagnostics: Explaining Pakistan’s Lagging Economic Growth,”
Global Economy Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4.
Khan, Shaheen R. and S. R. Khan, 2011, “Fishery Degradation in Pakistan: PovertyEnvironment Nexus?” Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 32, No.1.
Khan, Shaheen R. and S. R. Khan, 2009, “Assessing Poverty-Deforestation Links: Evidence
from Swat, Pakistan,” Ecological Economics, Vol. 68, No. 10.
Kiefer, D. and S. R. Khan, 2008, “Revealed Social Preferences for Equality and Growth,”
Journal of Income Distribution, Vol. 17, No. 1.
Khan, S. R. and S. Kazmi, 2008, “Value chains in the informal sector: income shares of
home-based sub-contracted workers in Pakistan,” International Review of Applied
Economics, Vol. 22, No. 3.
Khan, S. R., 2007, “Pakistan’s Economy since 1999: Has There Been Real Progress?” South
Asia Economic Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1.
Khan, S. R., D. Kiefer, 2007, “Educational Production Functions for Rural Pakistan: A
Comparative Institutional Analysis.” Education Economics, Vol. 15, No. 3.
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Khan, S. R., 2007, “WTO, IMF and the closing of development policy space for low-income
countries: a case for neo-developmentalism,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 6.
Khan, S. R., 2006, “Learning from Some South Asian ‘Successes’: Tapping Social Capital,”
South Asia Economic Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2.
Khan, S. R., S. Kazmi and Z. Latif, 2005, “A Comparative Institutional Analysis of
Government, NGO and Private Rural Primary Schooling in Pakistan” The European
Journal of Development Research, Vol. 17, No. 2.
Khan, S. R.. 2003, “Participation and Collective Action in Basic Education in Government and
NGO Schools in Pakistan,” Development in Practice, Vol. 13, No.4.
Khan, S. R. 2003, “Rationality in Public Sector Salary Scales: The Case of Rural Teachers in
Pakistan,” Education Economics, Vol. 10, No. 3.
Khan, S. R., 2002, “Structural Adjustment at the Turn of the Century,” Economic and
Political Weekly, Vol. 37, Nos. 44/45.
S. R. Khan and A. S. Akhtar, 2002, “Using Theater as a Research Tool: Bench-Marking and
Trouble-Shooting the Devolution Plan in Pakistan,” Lahore Journal of Economics,
Vol. 7, No. 1.
Khan, S. R., 2001, “Promoting Democratic Governance: The Case of Pakistan,” European
Journal of Development Research, Vol. 13, No. 2.
Khan, S. R, M. Khwaja, and A. M. Khan, 2001, “Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Costs
Associated with Cloth and Leather Exports from Pakistan,” Cambridge Journal of
Environment and Development, Vol .6, No. 3.
Khan, S. R, 1999 “An Assessment of Basic Education under the Social Action Plan in
Pakistan,” The Lahore Journal of Economics, Vol. 4, No. 2.
Khan, S. R., 1997, "Past Performance and Administered Tests as University Admissions Criteria
in Pakistan: a Production Function Approach," Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 8, No.
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Khan, S. R., C. Bilginsoy, M. S. Alam. 1997, "Dynamic Efficiencies of Industrialization and
Economic Growth," Economia Internationale, Vol. 50, No. 1.
Alderman, H., J. Behrman, S. R. Khan, D. Ross and D. Sabot. 1997, "The Income Gap in
Cognitive Skills in Rural Pakistan," Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol.
46, No. 1..
Behrman, J., S. R. Khan, D. Ross and D. Sabot, 1997, "School Quality and Cognitive
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Achievement Production: A Case Study for Rural Pakistan," Economics of Education
Review, Vol. 16, No. 2.
Khan, S. R. and S. Aftab, 1997, and "Structural Adjustment, Labor and the Poor in Pakistan,"
Lahore Journal of Economics, Vol. 1, No. 2.
Khan, S. R. and R. Siddiqui, 1997, "Landed Power and Rural Schooling," Pakistan Journal of
Applied Economics, Vol. 13, No.1.
Alderman, H., J. R. Behrman, S. R. Khan, D. R. Ross and R. H. Sabot. 1996, "Decomposing the
Regional Gap in Cognitive Skills in Rural Pakistan," Journal of Asian Economics, Vol.
7, No. 1.
Aftab, S. and S. R. Khan, 1996, "Comparative Privatization Experience in Pakistan: Employee
Ownership vs. Private Ownership," Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 27,
No. 3.
Khan, S. R. and M. Ahmad, 1996, "Gender and Structural Adjustment in Pakistan," Lahore
Journal of Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1.
Khan, S. R. and S. Aftab, 1996. "Devaluation and Balance of Trade: A Policy Analysis,"
Economia Internationale, Vol. 49, No. 2. Reprinted in 1998, Ric Shand (ed.) Economic
Liberalization in South Asia (New Delhi: Macmillan).
Khan, S. R. and C. Bilginsoy, 1994, "Industry Externalities Revisited," Kyklos, Vol. 47, No. 1.
Bilginsoy, C. and S. R. Khan, 1994, "Cross-sector Export Externalities in Development,"
Economic Letters, Vol. 44, pp. 215-220.
Khan, S. R. and S. Aftab, 1994, "Assessing the Impact of Financial Reform on Pakistan's
Economy," Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2.
Khan, S. R, 1993, "Underestimating Aggregate Rates of Return to Education," International
Journal of Manpower, Vol. 14, No. 8.
Khan, S. R, 1991. "Income Re-distributional Impact of Financing Higher Education in
Pakistan," World Development, Vol. 19, No. 9.
Khan, S. R., W. D. Shaw and F. Husain, 1991, "Causality between Literacy and Labor
Productivity Growth in Pakistan," Economics of Education Review, Vol. 10, No. 3.
Khan, S. R, 1991, "Financing Higher Education in Pakistan," Higher Education, Vol. 21, No. 2.
Khan, S. R. and S. Z. Ali, 1988, "Some Findings on Higher Educated Unemployment in
Pakistan," Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2.
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Khan, S. R, 1988, "Henry George and an Alternative Islamic Land Tenure System," Economic
Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 36, No. 4.
Khan, S. R., R. Siddiqui and F. Hussain, 1987, "An Analysis of School Level Drop-Out Rates
and Output in Pakistan," Pakistan Social and Economic Review, Vol. 25, No. 1.
Khan, S. R, 1987, "Profit and Loss Sharing as a Substitute for Interest in Islamic Banking,"
Savings and Development (FINAFRANCA, Italy), Vol. 11, No. 3.
Khan, S. R, 1987, "The Pakistani Experiment with Islamic (Profit-and-Loss Sharing) Banking,"
Bangladesh Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 15, No. 4.
Khan, S. R., N. Mahmood and F. Hussain, 1986. "An Appraisal of School Level Enrollment and
Facilities in Pakistan: 1970/71-1982/83." Pakistan Social and Economic Review. 24 (2).
Khan, S. R., N. Mahmood and R. Siddiqui, 1986, "An Assessment of the Distribution of Public
Sector Educational Investment:1970/71-1982/83," 1986, Pakistan Development Review.
Vol. 25, No. 2, Reprinted in ed. Ejaz Nabi , 1986, The Quality of Life in Pakistan:
Readings in Social Sector Economics, (Lahore, Pakistan: Vanguard Press).
Khan, S. R, 1985, "The Political Economy of an Islamic System, "Hamdard Islamicus,.Vol. 13,
No. 4.
Khan, S. R, 1984, "An Analysis of PLS Banking," Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Vol.
3, No. 2. Reprinted in ed. Mohsin S. Khan and A. Mirakhor,1987, Theoretical Studies in
Islamic Banking and Finance (Houston: Institute for Research in Islamic Studies).
Khan, S. R, 1975, "Estimating the Social Cost of Using Agricultural Land in the Punjab," The
Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 14, No. 3.
Khan, S. R, 1974, "An Estimate of the Shadow Wage Rate in Pakistan," The Pakistan
Development Review, Vol. 13, No. 4.
Book chapters, reports, reviews
Khan, S. R., 2013, “The military and economic development in Pakistan,” in eds. R. Pollin
and J. Wicks-Lim, Capitalism on Trial: Explorations in the Tradition of Thomas E.
Weisskopf (Northampton: Edward Elgar).
Khan, S. R., 2012, “Weakness Diagnostics: Why Pakistan is losing the economic race,” in ed.
Weiss, A. Development Challenges Confronting Pakistan, (West Hartford, Kumarian
Press).
Khan, S. R., 2012, “Highly educated labor flows from low to high income countries: mutual
security,” in ed. K. Khory, Global Migration: Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
(New York: Palgrave MacMillan).
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Contributing author, 2011, Chapter on “Greening Agriculture: Opportunities for Ensuring
Sustainable Food Security, Building Natural Capital and Stimulating Inclusive
Economic Development,” for UNEP’s Green Economy Report.
Khan, S. R., 2010, “Exploring and naming and economic development alternative,” chapter 1
in eds. Khan, S. R. and J. Christiansen, 2010, Market as Means Rather than Master:
Towards New Developmentalism (New York: Routledge).
Khan, S. R., 2010, “Towards new developmentalism: context, program, and constraints,”
chapter 12 in eds. Khan, S. R. and J. Christiansen, 2010, Market as Means Rather than
Master: Towards New Developmentalism (New York: Routledge).
Khan, Shaheen Rafi and S. R. Khan, 2010, “Local support organizations as an exit strategy
for rural development NGOs,” report prepared for the Rural Support Program
Network, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Khan, Shaheen Rafi and S. R. Khan, 2008, “Women’s Access and Control over Micro-Credit
in Rural Support Program (RSP) Areas in Pakistan,”DFID/Rural Support Program
Network (RSPN), Islamabad, Pakistan.
Khan, S. R. 2008, “Trade and the Environment: Some Empirical and Policy Issues for
Pakistan.” In eds. Michael Kugelman, Hard Sell: Attaining Pakistani Competitiveness
in Global Trade (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Asia Program:
Washington D. C.).
Khan, S. R., 2007, Protecting industrial policy space in low-income countries,” Policy Brief
for G24, UNDESA, (inter-governmental group of 24 website), No. 11.
Khan, S. R., S. G. Khattak and S. Kazmi, 2007, “Hazardous Subcontracted Homework in
Pakistan” Chapter 7 in Eds. S. Mehrotra and M. Biggeri, Asian Informal Workers:
Global Risks Local Protection (London: Routledge).
Khan, Shaheen Rafi, Khan, Shahrukh Rafi, Shaheen, F. H. and Yusuf, M., 2006, “The WTO,
Trade and Sustainable Development: A Southern Agenda,” in Troubled Times:
Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extremes”
(Islamabad/Karachi: SDPI/SAMA).
Khan, F. S. and S. R. Khan, 2005, “Access and Dispensation of Justice at the Local Level,” in
Sustainable Development: Bridging Research / Policy Gaps in the Southern Context
(Karachi: SDPI/Oxford University Press).
Khan, S. R., 2004, “Pakistan’s Economy under the Military Government (1999-2004): Has
There Been Real Progress,” Paper prepared for the Conference on “The Economics
and Politics of Pakistan’s Development,” organized by The Paul H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, November 8,
2004.
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Khan, Shaheen R., M. S. Qureshi, S. R. Khan, and M. A. Khwaja, 2003, “The Costs and
Benefits of Compliance with International Environmental Standards,” in Sustainable
Development and Southern Realities: Past and Future in South Asia (Karachi: City
Press).
Eds. Khan, Shaheen Rafi and S. R. Khan, 2003, (contributing author) The State of the
Environment Report, Ministry of Environment, Islamabad.
Khan, S. R., 2003, “The Economics of Participatory Water Supply Schemes,” in ed. Kaiser
Bengali, The Politics of Managing Water (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Khan, S. R., A. S. Akhtar and F. S. Khan, 2002, “Investigating the Importance of Landed
Power and other Determinants of Local Body Election Outcomes,” in ed. M. Waseem,
Electoral Reforms (Islamabad: Friedrich Ebert).
Khan, S. R., 2002, “Trade Liberalization and the Environment: Northern and Southern
Perspectives,” in ed. Khan, S. R., International Trade and the Environment: Difficult
Policy Choices at the Interface (London: Zed Press).
Khan, S. R. et. al., 2001, “The Case for Agrarian and Land Reforms in Pakistan,” SDPI policy
brief series PB-12, Islamabad.
Khan, S. R., 2001, “Ensuring Devolution of Power Enhances Human Security: Some Key Issues
and an Indicative Model,” in ed. P. R. Chari, Security and Governance in South Asia
(Colombo: Monohar).
Khan, S. R. and Z. Mahmood, 2000, “Country Paper: Pakistan,” in Liberalization and
Poverty: Is there a Virtuous Circle,” (Jaipur, India: CUTS).
Khan, S. R. 1999, “Structural Adjustment in Pakistan: Evidence and New Developments,” in
Policy Matters, IUCN-CEESP, No. 6.
Khan, Shaheen. R and Shahrukh R. Khan, 1999, “Environment: Some Key Controversies,” in
ed. Shahrukh R. Khan, 1999, Pakistan's Economy: Traditional Topics and
Contemporary Concerns (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Khan, S. R., 1998, “Human Development and Sustainable Development” in Can the
Environment in Pakistan Wait” (Islamabad: Sustainable Development Policy
Institute).
Khan, S. R. 1996. "A Participatory Approach to Development," in ed. Nauman Naqvi
Rethinking Development: Rethinking Security (Islamabad: Sustainable Development
Policy Institute).
Khan, S.R, 1995, "Trade Liberalization and the Environment," Paper prepared for the SDPI
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Green Economic Conference, September 12-14, 1995.
Alderman, H., J. R. Behrman, S. R. Khan, D. R. Ross and R. H. Sabot. 1995, "Public Schooling
Expenditures in Rural Pakistan: Efficiently Targeting Girls and a Lagging Region," in
eds. Dominique van de Walle and Kimberly Nead, In Public Spending and the Poor:
Theory and Evidence (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Press for the World Bank).
Khan, S. R, 1994, "NGOs and Environmental Sustainability: Issues and a Research Agenda,"
SDPI Working Paper Series No. 21.
Khan, S. R., and Dulan de Silva, 1994, "Sungi Development Foundation: A Programme
Planning Assessment," Karachi: IUCN.
Khan, S.R, 1993, “South Asia” in eds. E. King and A. Hill, Women’s Education in Developing
Countries: Barriers, Benefits and Policies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).
Book review, 1993, of Murnane et. al. “Who Will Teach? Policies that Matter,” Education
Economics, Vol. 1, No. 2.
Behrman, J. R., S. R. Khan, D. R. Ross and R. Sabot, 1993, "Low Schooling and Large
Schooling Gender Gaps in Pakistan: Market Failure? Policy Failure?" Paper presented at
the Northeast Development Conference, Williams College, October 1993.
Khan, S. R, 1992, "Education," eds. W. E. James and S. Roy, Foundations of Pakistan's
Political Economy (Delhi: Sage Publications).
Khan, S. R, 1991, "Policy Reform to Reduce Schooling Disparities," Background Paper
presented at a conference on Pakistan's Eighth Five Year Plan, December 1991, Planning
Commission, Islamabad.
Khan, S. R, 1991, "Higher Education in Pakistan," in The International Encyclopedia of
Comparative Higher Education (New York: Garland Publishing Inc.)
Fellowships/Honors:
Nominated for Fulbright Fellowship, 2011-2012.
Copeland Fellowship 2010-2011, Amherst College.
Selected by Mount Holyoke College and Beijing Cultural and Language University to present a
series of lectures at the BCLU in Summer 2009.
Khan, S. R, F. S. Foqia, A. S. Akhtar, 2007, Initiating devolution for service delivery in
Pakistan: forgetting the power structure (Karachi: Oxford University Press) received
the 2007-2008 Akhter Hamid Khan award from the Council of Social Sciences,
Pakistan, 2008.
Awarded research grant by the Rural Support Program Network to research grassroots rural
development initiatives, 2009-2010.
Awarded research grant by the Rural Support Program Network to research gender and
micro-credit, 2006-2008.
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Awarded faculty research grant, Mount Holyoke College, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2014.
Khan, S. R., S. G. Khattak and S. Kazmi, 2005, Hazardous Home Based Sub-Contracted
Work: A Study of Multiple Tiered Exploitation. (Karachi: Oxford University Press)
received the 2004-2005 Akhter Hamid Khan award from the Council of Social
Sciences, Pakistan, 2005.
Awarded a number of research grants on solicited and unsolicited proposals (see academic
consulting section).
Awarded second prize in National Book Council Foreign Journal Article Competition in
Pakistan, 1997.
Freidrich-Ebert Foundation travel/conference grant, 1992.
Awarded Vassar College Mellon Non-Western Studies Grant, 1990.
Research project selected for collaborative faculty-student Vassar Ford Scholar Project for
Summer 1989 and 1990.
East-West center travel/conference grant, 1989
Awarded second prize in National Book Council Foreign Journal Article Competition in
Pakistan, 1988.
East-West Center conference grant, 1985
Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1976-79
Valedictorian, Williams College, M. A. Development Economics, 1976.
USAID Fellowship, 1975-76.
Professional service
Freely provide comments on papers to students and colleagues as called upon, and for
referred journals such as Journal of Development Economics, World Development, and
Feminist Economics. Served on dissertation committees and on the Editorial Advisory Board
for the Lahore Journal of Economics.
Newspaper essays
Have been writing for leading Pakistani newspapers on economic issues since the early 1980s.
Blog for Down to Earth, Center for Science and Environment, India
Academic Consulting
UNEP, 2010, Consultant for chapter on Greening Agriculture, July, 2010.
Exit strategy for Rural Support Programs: Building Cluster Organizations. 2009-2010.
Gender and micro-credit, Rural Support Program Network, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2006-2008.
ICTSD-IISD-RING (International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development,
Switzerland / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Canada / Research
International Networking Group, International Institute of Environment and Development,
England, Trade and Sustainable Development, 2003 – 2004.
UNDP, Devolution of Power, September 2001 – September 2002.
Research grant from Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada, to explore
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“Rules of Business in Local Government,” May 2001 – September 2001.
UNICEF, Home-Based Workers. Project to explore exploitative and hazardous conditions
under which sub-contracted work is being done by women and children and to explore the
distribution of surplus across the production chain.
The Asia Foundation / Regional Center for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka, Local Government and
the Devolution of Powers, December 1999 – August 2000. To explore power and local
government elections, December 2000 – March 2001.
Norad. An Appraisal of Participation in Rural Basic Education, July-December 1999.
Human Development Foundation – North America, Participatory Analysis of an Integrated
Development Model, 1999 – 2001.
IISD/IRDC/IUCN, Project on trade and sustainable development. Wrote a report on the WTO’s
impact on exports of textiles and clothing and leather and leather manufacturing and the likely
environmental impact under various mitigation scenarios, June 1998 - December 1999.
World Bank. "Project Rules, Demand Responsiveness and Sustainability of Rural Water Supply
Schemes," Feb.- May, 1997.
Asia Foundation, Basic Education Project, 1997-98. Report on structural adjustment and
education and a report on a comparative institutional analysis of government, NGO and private
sector schools. April 1997 - October 1999.
World Bank. "Evaluating Sustainability of Return of Water Supply Schemes to Communities,"
July 1995-1996.
Aga Khan Foundation of Canada. Prepared background report on community development and
the environment for an NGO conference in Bangladesh, March 1994.
IFPRI/USAID. Reports submitted with Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, David R. Ross and
Richard Sabot.
a. "The Income Gap in Cognitive Skills in Rural Pakistan," October 1993.
b. "Teacher Incentives and Effectiveness." October 1993.
c. "School Quality and Human Capital Production." October 1993.
d. "Decomposing the Regional Gap in Cognitive Skills in Rural Pakistan,"
November 1993.
World Bank. "Analysis of a Rural Income Distribution Survey in Pakistan. Submitted report on
the impact of land concentration on rural female schooling." 1989/1991.
World Bank. "Barriers to Female Education in South Asia." 1988.
UNESCO/Ministry of Education Pakistan. “Higher Education and Employment Opportunities in
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Pakistan. 1983-1984.
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