Dr Habibullah Khan Associate Professor Associate Dean, Assessment & Content Author Liaison hkhan@u21global.edu.sg Phone: +65-6410 1385 Fax: +65-6410 1358

Habibullah Khan is Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at U21Global, where his teaching and research focus is on Managerial Economics and Global and Regional Economic Development. He is responsible for all assessment-related matters, including the moderation and publication of students' grades. Dr Khan oversees the development of new subjects and works closely with authors, academic reviewers and U21pedagogica (the review and accreditation agency for U21Global). Prior to joining U21Global, Dr Khan was Associate Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore from 1997 to 2004. His research areas include development economics, the economies of ASE AN and NIEs, and tourism. He has consulted widely with international organisations, including the World Bank and the ASEAN Secretariat.

Dr Khan has published widely, including a book on the Socioeconomic Development of ASEAN, and three other books that he co-authored. He has also contributed chapters to a number of books and his articles have appeared in international refereed journals. Dr Khan has presented his papers at several international conferences and is widely regarded as an authority on tourism and economic development of Singapore and ASEAN. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of New South Wales, Australia and an MA from Dhaka University, Bangladesh.

Professional Affiliations

• Economic Society of Singapore (ESS), Life member
• Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA), Member

Selected/Recent Publications

• An Empirical Validation of the Travel Balance Approach as an Alternative to the Tourism Area Life Cycle (with Rex Toh and Irene Yap), Tourism Analysis, Vol.7, No.3-4, 2003, pp.207-215
• A Travel Balance Approach for Examining Tourism Area Life Cycles: The Case of Singapore, Journal of Travel Research, Vol. 39, No.4, May 2001(with Rex Toh, and Ai-Jin Koh)
• Defense Spending and Economic Growth: Evidence from ASEAN Using Cointegration and Causality Tests, The Singapore Economic Review, Vol. 45, No.2, October 2000 (with Yap Wei Yim)
• Social Expenditure and Economic Growth: Evidence from Japan Using Cointegration and Causality Tests, The Singapore Economic Review, Vol. 44, No.2, October 1999.
• Foreign Direct Investment, Exports, and Economic Growth in Three Little Dragons: Evidence from Cointegration and Causality Tests, The Singapore Economic Review, Vol. 42, No.2, October 1997 (with Ko Bee Leng)

Selected/Recent Presentations

• (2006) 'The New Global Economy and Prospects for "Chindia": A Brief Assessment', Interwise Webinar Series, U21Global Head Office, Singapore. download ppt
• "The Demand for Japanese Tourists in Singapore: A Cointegration Approach", The 35th Annual Conference of Travel and Tourism research association (TTRA), 22-25 June, 2004, Montreal, Canada.
• "Singapore's Free Trade Agreements with Japan and USA: A Brief Assessment", Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Conference, 27-28 November, 2003, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan
• "International Trade and Tourism: Evidence from Cointegration and Causality Tests by Using Singapore Data", The 33rd Annual Conference of Travel and Tourism Association (TTRA), 23-26 June 2002, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
• "The Best Practices on E-commerce Strategies for Small and Medium Sized Tourism Enterprises in Singapore", Symposium on "Application of E-commerce Strategies to SMTEs in APEC Region", organized by Korea Tourism Research Institute(KTRI), February 5-6, 2002, Seoul, Korea.
• "Tourism in Singapore: A Brief Assessment", The International Workshop on Pusan's Benchmarking Singapore, Organized by Pusan Development Institute(PDI), 11 September 2001, Pusan, South Korea.

Professional Activities

• Consultant for the World Bank Institute (WBI) and Offered a training course for the senior Bangladesh Bank officers on "Interactions between Fiscal and Monetary Policies", 1-20 July 2004.
• Consultant for project "Short Term Contracts in Outsourcing of Work in Singapore", sponsored by NTUC Enterprise and OTC Labor Institute, Singapore, 2004.
• Consultant for The ASEAN Secretariat's REPSF Project "Options for Managing Revenue Losses and Other Adjustment Costs of CLMV Participation in AFTA", 2003, and the final report will soon be published by the ASEAN Secretariat.
• Consultant for the World Bank Institute (WBI) Project, "Social Policy in East Asian Economic Development", 1996-97 and prepared the 'Singapore Chapter', published by the World Bank Institute ("Social Policy in Singapore: A Confucian Model?", WBI Working Paper, Stock No.37165, January 2001).
• Resource person/Consultant for the UN-ESCAP Project "Investment and Economic Cooperation in the Tourism Sector in Developing Asian Countries", 1991, and prepared a technical paper on "Foreign Investment in the Tourism Sector in Selected Asian Countries".

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