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Khan Jahirul Islam, PhD
Lecturer
Economics
Office: ART 231Phone: 250.807.9591
Email: khan.islam@ubc.ca
Graduate student supervisor. By request at the approval of the Department and/or Dean’s Office.
Research Summary
Economic Development; Financial Inclusion; Economics of Household.
Courses & Teaching
Economic Development; Labour Economics, Data Analysis;
Money and Banking; Financial Economics;
Introduction to Mathematical Economics; Managerial Economics;
Economics of the Environment; Intermediate Macroeconomics;
Principles of Microeconomics
Biography
Dr. Khan Jahirul Islam holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Manitoba and serving as a lecturer of economics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) since 2016. He has extensive teaching experience at UBC, the University of Manitoba, and the University of Winnipeg. His primary research areas encompass Applied Microeconomics, Economic Development, Financial Inclusion, Poverty and Inequality, Public Policy, and Household Finance. Khan’s work has been published in reputable journals like World Development, Journal of International Development, International Journal of Economic Theory, and Journal of Development Effectiveness, and he has co-authored a book chapter as well. He is serving as an associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies. He possesses significant research experience as a research fellow funded by prestigious organizations, such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) in Canada, Canadian Public Policy, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the European Commission, the International Labor Organization (ILO), and the Department for International Development of Bangladesh (DFIDB). Khan’s ongoing research projects include analyzing households’ financial distress, vulnerability to poverty, and the Credit card debt puzzle in Canada, the impact of financial literacy on households’ well-being, and insight into multidimensional poverty in Bangladesh. He is actively engaged in poverty action research in Bangladesh, supporting initiatives related to health, education, and access to low-cost credit for impoverished households. Dr. Khan’s upcoming research aims to illuminate ways of empowering the underserved through the utilization of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to tackle poverty and inequality.
Websites
Degrees
PhD, University of Manitoba
MA, Carleton University
Research Interests & Projects
Research Interests
Poverty, Inequality, Financial Inclusion, Household Finance, Blockchain for Poverty Alleviation, Indigenous Economic Development
Research Project
Project Title: Canada and the Asia Pacific Policy Project (CAPP) (September 2018 – present): I am one of the research collaborators of this ongoing project funded by a tri-university partnership research grant that seeks to establish interdisciplinary research collaboration between Thompson Rivers University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Northern British Columbia. I am working in the Sustainable Development group of this project.
Project Title: Gaglardi Environment and Sustainability Research Cluster (September 2023 – present): I am one of the research collaborators of this ongoing project which seeks to establish an interdisciplinary research collaboration between Thompson Rivers University and the University of British Columbia. I am working in the Sustainable and Community Economic Development sub-cluster of this project.
Selected Publications & Presentations
Khan, A., Islam, K. J., and Haque, A. M. (2023). Community-based natural resource management: an effective tool to reduce poverty and inequality?. Journal of Development Effectiveness, 1-16.
Islam, K. J. (2023). Strategic default, multiple installments, and the role of informal moneylender in microcredit contract. International Journal of Economic Theory, 19(2), 204-220.
Kandie, D., and Islam, K. J. (2022). A new era of microfinance: The digital microcredit and its impact on poverty. Journal of International Development, 34(3), 469-492.
Islam, K.J., and O’Gorman, M. (2019). Microcredit contract design: A macroeconomic evaluation. World Development, 124, 104634.
Islam, K. J., and Simpson, W. (2018). Payday lending and microcredit: Two faces of the same problem?. Journal of International Development, 30(4), 584-614.
Khan, M. A., Alam, M. F., and Islam, K. J. (2012). The impact of co-management on household income and expenditure: An empirical analysis of common property fishery resource management in Bangladesh. Ocean and Coastal Management, 65, 67-78.
Book Chapter
Simpson, W., and Islam, K. (2018). A statistical profile of payday loan clients from national surveys. Payday lending in Canada in a global context: A mature industry with chronic challenges, 41-64.
Selected Grants & Awards
Grants
Multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from Bangladesh. (January, 2022 – December, 2023). I have received an internal research grant from the University of British Columbia to conduct a household survey in Bangladesh.
The Credit Card Debt Puzzle: Evidence for Canada. (with Julien Picault at the University of British Columbia, January 2020 – December 2021). We have received an internal research grant from the University of British Columbia.
Awards
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Merit Awards, University of British Columbia, 2021 and 2020.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Performance Salary Adjustments Awards, University of British Columbia, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019
Professional Services/Affiliations/Committees
Editorial Service: Associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
Member of the Equity Committee of the University of British Columbia Faculty Association and am actively involved in the Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour (IBPOC) subgroup.
Affiliations: American Economic Association, Canadian Economics Association
Media
Live TV talk show on a national TV channel in Bangladesh(in Bengali) about microfinance.