His areas of research include poverty and inequality, environment, foreign aid, trade and investment, as well as economy-wide modeling.
His work ranges from economy-wide modeling of technology and capital flows to the political and economic theories of democracy and justice.
Prof. Khan has received the prestigious Distinguished Scholar Award from the Academy of International Business and delivered an invited address on “An evolutionary approach to reconstructing the global financial architecture: the extended panda’s thumb principle” at the annual meeting in Dallas.
He has also won awards and delivered invited addresses in Costa Rica, Mexico, Canada, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Finland, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, India, China, and Japan among other countries..He has delivered papers at the United Nations and other international organizations on several occasions.
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 been affiliated in various capacities with the UN, the World Bank, ILO, UNU, Universities and research institutes in Western Europe, China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Costa Rica and Mexico.
During his journey in Italy in November 2017, as visiting professor, he espoused his eight propositions about "crisis and globalization" during a "lectio magistralis" in Santa Maria Capua Vetere at the Universitá degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli with the collaboration of two Italian economics professors, Salvatore D'Acunto and Francesco Schettino, giving all together a great contribute to the different aspects of the question.