Mushtaq Husain Khan is a British Bangladeshi economist and professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Educated as an exhibitioner at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Khan graduated with a first-class BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1981.
[2] Apart from his academic career, Khan has held appointments as consultant for a vast number of international institutions focussing on poor countries, among others the World Bank, DfID, UNDP and the Asian Development Bank; moreover, he has held positions as visiting professor at Chulalongkorn and Dhaka University.
In several publications, he challenges the belief that the elimination of rents, corruption and rent-seeking behaviour as well as democratisation and decentralisation represent the precondition for successful development.
[7] On this account, notable examples include Taiwan and South Korea where states intervened heavily and used patron-client relationships in order to further growth.