Shahrukh Rafi Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shahrukh Rafi Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shahrukh Rafi |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0722-0044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Local community impact-attitudes-actions toward China–Pakistan economic corridor development in Pakistan
Introduction Development initiatives can generate substantial economic, social, cultural, and environmental benefits for local communities, with their success largely contingent on residents’ perceptions, attitudes, and levels of support. Within the context of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), local community perspectives particularly in Gilgit-Baltistan remain underexplored due to limited empirical data. This study aims to examine how…
Synergistic effects of technology and native aptitude in the perspective of industrial transfer for sustainable development in emerging economies
A Microcredit Alternative in South Asia: Akhuwat's Experiment
Microcredit took the development world by storm as a tool for poverty alleviation in the 1980s. After being hailed as a panacea, a few decades on it started being forcefully criticised based on its practice. This book explores Akhuwat (literally brotherhood), a rapidly growing Pakistani NGO formed in 2001, which addresses the shortcomings of conventional microfinance. Its vision is of a society built on empathy and social solidarity and its missi…
Microcredit in South Asia: Privileging women’s perceptions and voices
This paper reviews feminist critiques, both on conceptual and empirical grounds, of the contention that microcredit empowers women. It also reviews other critiques of microcredit as being pushed by a neo-liberal agenda to extend the domain of the market or as a development panacea while not really representing authentic development. It makes a case for privileging women’s perception and voice and adds to the literature that does this using a case…
A rural support programme exit strategy: Women Filling Vacated Spaces and Excelling in Community Development
Rural support programmes in Pakistan are major players in rural development, with significant outreach. Owing to funding constraints, they are currently exploring an exit strategy whereby they facilitate the formation of multi-tier local support organisations (LSOs), including those exclusively run by women. The present article focuses on the impact of this exit strategy on rural women. The findings, based on survey research, show that women have…
Fishery degradation in Pakistan: A poverty–environment nexus
The number of fishing vessels in Pakistan's coastal waters has been steadily increasing but the fish catches steadily decreasing. Press reports blame this on poverty-driven overfishing by the artisanal fishers with banned nets. Using qualitative methods and tapping into local stakeholder knowledge, this study dispels simplistic views by exploring in depth the coastal artisanal fisheries sector in Pakistan and documenting the challenges faced by i…
Assessing poverty–deforestation links: Evidence from Swat, Pakistan
Wto , Imf and the Closing of Development Policy Space for Low-Income Countries: A call for neo-developmentalism
The object of this paper is to locate and extend the debate on the closing of development ‘policy space’ for low-income countries. The location is in the broader context of the current debate in development economics among neoliberals and ‘neo-developmentalists’. The extension is via an investigation of the gap between the wto's bound and applied tariff rates. We hypothesise that countries that receive aid and are therefore subject to imf ‘condit…
Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital for Rural Development
A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Government, NGO and Private Rural Primary Schooling in Pakistan
Participation via collective action in government and NGO schools in Pakistan
Parent-teacher associations (PTAs) or school management committees (SMCs) are an important way of realising participation via collective action to improve schooling. Field visits, a literature review, and a small sample survey are the three sources used to explore the status of SMCs/PTAs that have been established by provincial governments and NGOs in Pakistan. My main finding is that to make participation effective in schooling, public-sector re…
Promoting Democratic Governance: The Case of Pakistan
Comparative Privatization Experience in Pakistan: Employee and Private Ownership
In this paper, we compare the pre- and post-privatization experience of five firms in three industries in which employee buy-outs and conventional privatization occurred. We do not find evidence to support the hypothesis that labor productivity is higher in employee-owned firms. We find that private sector firms are more successful than employee buy-outs in raising profit rates. In general, private ownership seems to lead to less labor retrenchme…
The income redistributional impact of financing higher education in Pakistan
Some Findings on Higher Educated Unemployment in Pakistan
The latest Population Census data for Pakistan indicates that the bulk of educated unemployment occurs below age thirty. These statistics suggest that educated unemployment is largely a problem of waiting or a lag in absorbtion in the labour market. Thus we concentrated on explaining the causes of waiting. To do so, we organised the information from survey data (including a sample of 2, 671 employed and 260 unemployed) we had at hand into factors…
Henry George and an Alternative Islamic Land Tenure System
Wto , Imf and the Closing of Development Policy Space for Low-Income Countries: A call for neo-developmentalism
The object of this paper is to locate and extend the debate on the closing of development ‘policy space’ for low-income countries. The location is in the broader context of the current debate in development economics among neoliberals and ‘neo-developmentalists’. The extension is via an investigation of the gap between the wto's bound and applied tariff rates. We hypothesise that countries that receive aid and are therefore subject to imf ‘condit…
Microcredit in South Asia: Privileging women’s perceptions and voices
This paper reviews feminist critiques, both on conceptual and empirical grounds, of the contention that microcredit empowers women. It also reviews other critiques of microcredit as being pushed by a neo-liberal agenda to extend the domain of the market or as a development panacea while not really representing authentic development. It makes a case for privileging women’s perception and voice and adds to the literature that does this using a case…
Fishery degradation in Pakistan: A poverty–environment nexus
The number of fishing vessels in Pakistan's coastal waters has been steadily increasing but the fish catches steadily decreasing. Press reports blame this on poverty-driven overfishing by the artisanal fishers with banned nets. Using qualitative methods and tapping into local stakeholder knowledge, this study dispels simplistic views by exploring in depth the coastal artisanal fisheries sector in Pakistan and documenting the challenges faced by i…
A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Government, NGO and Private Rural Primary Schooling in Pakistan
Promoting Democratic Governance: The Case of Pakistan
Comparative Privatization Experience in Pakistan: Employee and Private Ownership
In this paper, we compare the pre- and post-privatization experience of five firms in three industries in which employee buy-outs and conventional privatization occurred. We do not find evidence to support the hypothesis that labor productivity is higher in employee-owned firms. We find that private sector firms are more successful than employee buy-outs in raising profit rates. In general, private ownership seems to lead to less labor retrenchme…
Henry George and an Alternative Islamic Land Tenure System
Some Findings on Higher Educated Unemployment in Pakistan
The latest Population Census data for Pakistan indicates that the bulk of educated unemployment occurs below age thirty. These statistics suggest that educated unemployment is largely a problem of waiting or a lag in absorbtion in the labour market. Thus we concentrated on explaining the causes of waiting. To do so, we organised the information from survey data (including a sample of 2, 671 employed and 260 unemployed) we had at hand into factors…
Henry George and an Alternative Islamic Land Tenure System
The income redistributional impact of financing higher education in Pakistan
Comparative Privatization Experience in Pakistan: Employee and Private Ownership
In this paper, we compare the pre- and post-privatization experience of five firms in three industries in which employee buy-outs and conventional privatization occurred. We do not find evidence to support the hypothesis that labor productivity is higher in employee-owned firms. We find that private sector firms are more successful than employee buy-outs in raising profit rates. In general, private ownership seems to lead to less labor retrenchme…
Promoting Democratic Governance: The Case of Pakistan
Participation via collective action in government and NGO schools in Pakistan
Parent-teacher associations (PTAs) or school management committees (SMCs) are an important way of realising participation via collective action to improve schooling. Field visits, a literature review, and a small sample survey are the three sources used to explore the status of SMCs/PTAs that have been established by provincial governments and NGOs in Pakistan. My main finding is that to make participation effective in schooling, public-sector re…
A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Government, NGO and Private Rural Primary Schooling in Pakistan
Wto , Imf and the Closing of Development Policy Space for Low-Income Countries: A call for neo-developmentalism
The object of this paper is to locate and extend the debate on the closing of development ‘policy space’ for low-income countries. The location is in the broader context of the current debate in development economics among neoliberals and ‘neo-developmentalists’. The extension is via an investigation of the gap between the wto's bound and applied tariff rates. We hypothesise that countries that receive aid and are therefore subject to imf ‘condit…
Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital for Rural Development
Assessing poverty–deforestation links: Evidence from Swat, Pakistan
Fishery degradation in Pakistan: A poverty–environment nexus
The number of fishing vessels in Pakistan's coastal waters has been steadily increasing but the fish catches steadily decreasing. Press reports blame this on poverty-driven overfishing by the artisanal fishers with banned nets. Using qualitative methods and tapping into local stakeholder knowledge, this study dispels simplistic views by exploring in depth the coastal artisanal fisheries sector in Pakistan and documenting the challenges faced by i…
A rural support programme exit strategy: Women Filling Vacated Spaces and Excelling in Community Development
Rural support programmes in Pakistan are major players in rural development, with significant outreach. Owing to funding constraints, they are currently exploring an exit strategy whereby they facilitate the formation of multi-tier local support organisations (LSOs), including those exclusively run by women. The present article focuses on the impact of this exit strategy on rural women. The findings, based on survey research, show that women have…
Microcredit in South Asia: Privileging women’s perceptions and voices
This paper reviews feminist critiques, both on conceptual and empirical grounds, of the contention that microcredit empowers women. It also reviews other critiques of microcredit as being pushed by a neo-liberal agenda to extend the domain of the market or as a development panacea while not really representing authentic development. It makes a case for privileging women’s perception and voice and adds to the literature that does this using a case…
A Microcredit Alternative in South Asia: Akhuwat's Experiment
Microcredit took the development world by storm as a tool for poverty alleviation in the 1980s. After being hailed as a panacea, a few decades on it started being forcefully criticised based on its practice. This book explores Akhuwat (literally brotherhood), a rapidly growing Pakistani NGO formed in 2001, which addresses the shortcomings of conventional microfinance. Its vision is of a society built on empathy and social solidarity and its missi…
Synergistic effects of technology and native aptitude in the perspective of industrial transfer for sustainable development in emerging economies
Local community impact-attitudes-actions toward China–Pakistan economic corridor development in Pakistan
Introduction Development initiatives can generate substantial economic, social, cultural, and environmental benefits for local communities, with their success largely contingent on residents’ perceptions, attitudes, and levels of support. Within the context of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), local community perspectives particularly in Gilgit-Baltistan remain underexplored due to limited empirical data. This study aims to examine how…
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