Education

PhD, Cornell University
MA, Cornell University
BA, Eisenhower College

Profile

Professor of Economics, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver; previous positions include Visiting Professor, CIRJE, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo (1999, 2003-2006); Senior Economic Adviser, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) during sabbatical leave (2007-2008); Distinguished Scholar Award, Academy of International Business (2005). Consultant for The International Labor Office, World Bank, United Nations Development Programme, Asian Development Bank Institute, UNCTAD, and various European, Asian, Latin American and African governments. Field work in Korea, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Japan, China, Costa Rica, Mexico, Philippines, Taiwan, Nigeria, South Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore. Author of many articles, monographs and books, including Global Markets and Financial Crisis: Asia's Mangled Miracle (2004), Innovation and Growth in East Asia: The Future of Miracles (2004) and African Debt and Sustainable Development (1997). Forthcoming Patterns of Human Development: Growth and Poverty (2008 with Barry Hughes et al) discusses the concepts and empirics of growth, income distribution and poverty, and presents distribution-sensitive results from a long-run model of growth and distribution.

Prof. Khan is also an award-winning poet , translator and literary critic. In fact, his early career was in theater, television, radio and film where he participated in a number of progressive democratic and anti-imperialist projects.  He  has written books and articles on Modernism, Surrealism and Postmodernism in film and literature, and on Octavio Paz, James Joyce, Guillaume Apollinaire, Rabindranath Tagore  and the Japanese Haiku and Renku master Basho, among others, in English and several other languages.

Recent Publications

China’s National Innovation System at the Cross-roads,(2010) LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Berlin, Germany (with Alberto Gabriele)

Apollinaire: Modernity and Contradiction, Prothoma Publishers, Dhaka(with Monzurul Huq), 2012

St.-Exupery’s Little Prince: A postcolonial perspective, Prothoma Publishers, Dhaka,2012

“Central Bank Autonomy, Legal Institutions and Incidence of Financial Crises”, International Journal of Finance and Economics,2011

“Hyperconflict: Globalization and Insecurity from a Critical Scientific Realist Perspective of Causal Depth”, Globalizations, 8(3), June 2011: 385-91

“Lessons from Korean Development Experience”, in UNAIF, New Partners for Change: UN and the World Academic Community, Seoul, August 2011: 83-112.

“Development Strategies: Lessons from South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and Viet Nam”, in Augustin Fosu ed. Lessons from Successful Development Strategies, Oxford University Press, 2012

“China’s Development Strategy and Energy Security”, in Amelia Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan ed. The Rise of China and India: Development Strategies and Lessons, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010

“The Gains from Growth for Women in India: A SAM- and CGE-based analysis”, in Amelia Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan ed. The Rise of China and India: Development Strategies and Lessons, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010

Research and Expertise

Political economy; economic modeling and development, including trade liberalization and poverty reduction; economics projects on energy and development in Asia and Latin America; development finance and international finance; globalization and ethics

Courses

Political Economy of Globalization, Political Economy of Human Rights, International Business Environment; Country Risk Analysis; Financial Analysis of Large Scale Projects; International Corporate Finance; International Money and Finance in Europe; International Money and Finance in East Asia; Global Financial Structure; Japanese Economy--Trade and Financial Issues; Advanced Issues in International Economics; Theories of Income Distribution; Research Methods: Philosophy of Science Issues; Global Economic Justice; International Monetary Relations; Special topics in Econometrics; Math, Econonomics and Technology