Education
- Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University
- M.A., Development Economics, Williams College
- B.E., Civil Engineering, University of Peshawar
Biography
CONTRIBUTION TO OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS
2011 Climate Change, Durban, and Rio+20, Paper presented at UNDP Conference on Climate Change, Algiers, 11-13 October 2011
2011 Contributor, World Economic and Social Survey 2011 (Technological Change and Sustainable Development)
2011 Contributor (and Main Author of Section on Sustainable Development), UN System-wide Study on the Implications of the Fukushima Disaster
2011 Main Author and Editor, Secretary General’s Report to 2nd Preparatory Committee Meeting of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development
2010 Contributor and Convenor, Technical Note on Global Green New Deal for Climate, Energy, and Development
2010 Main Author and Editor, Secretary General’s Report to 1st Preparatory Committee Meeting of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (http://www.uncsd2012.org/content/documents/N1070657.pdf).
2009 Main Author and Editor, Secretary General’s Report on Climate Change and its Possible Security Implications (http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N09/509/46/PDF/N0950946.pdf?OpenElement)
2009 Contributor, World Economic and Social Survey 2009 (Climate Change and Sustainable Development)
2009 Co-author, DESA Policy Brief, Global Green New Deal for Sustainable Development, New York: United Nations
2003 T. Banuri and Mosharraf Zaidi, ICTs and the MDGs in Pakistan, Kuala Lumpur: UNDP-APDIP
2002 T. Banuri and Ali Qadir, One Way Street: Pakistan’s Trade Policy After Doha, Islamabad: Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Commerce, 2002
1994 Contributor and Editor, Pakistan National Report to the CSD, Islamabad: Environment and Urban Affairs Division
1993 Contributor and Editor, Pakistan National Report to the CSD, Islamabad: Environment and Urban Affairs Division
1993 Editor, The NCS: Plan of Action, 1993-98, Islamabad: Environment and Urban Affairs Division
1993 Contributor to chapters on Basic Framework, and Education, Eight Five Year Plan, 1993-98, Islamabad: Planning Commission
1993 Islamabad: Environment and Urban Affairs Division; Contributor to Report of SAARC Poverty Commission, Kathmandu: SAARC Secretariat;
1992 Editor and Lead Author, Pakistan National Report to UNCED, Islamabad: Government of Pakistan, Environment and Urban Affairs Division
1989 With Tariq Hussain, Conceptual Design of Sarhad Rural Support Corporation, Peshawar: Government of NWFP
1989 Conceptual Design for the SAARC Centre for Human Resource Development, Islamabad, Government of Pakistan, Planning Commission
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
2007 T. Banuri and H. Opschoor (2007) Climate Change and Sustainable Development, WP 56, New York: UN http://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers/2007/wp56_2007.pdf
2005 Environment and Sustainable Development in Asia, Stockholm: SEI and Swedish Foreign Ministry
2005 Economic Growth or Social Mobilization: Alternative Approaches to Poverty Eradication. Environment
2002 P. Raskin, T. Banuri, G. Gallopin, P. Gutman, A. Hammond, R. Kates, and R. Swart (2002) Great Transition, Boston: Tellus. http://gtinitiative.org/resources/gtessay.html
2002 T. Banuri and Adil Najam, Civic Entrepreneurship, Vol. I: Global Synthesis, Islamabad: Gandhara Academy Press
2002 T. Banuri, Adil Najam, and Nancy Odeh, eds. Civic Entrepreneurship, Vols. II to VII, Islamabad: Gandhara Academy Press
2002 Alternative Public Regimes for Achieving Environmental Improvement In The Global Cotton Commodity Chain: The Case of Pakistan, in Shahrukh Rafi Khan, ed. Trade and Environment: Difficult Policy Choices at the Interface, London: Zed Press, 2002
2001 T. Banuri, J. Weyant, G. Akumu, A. Najam, L. Pinguelli-Rosa, S. Rayner, W. Sachs, and G. Yohe (2001), Setting the Stage: Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Chapter 1 in Working Group (Mitigation), IPCC Third Assessment Report. http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/
2001 T. Banuri and Erika Spanger-Siegfried, The Global Compact and the Human Economy, Journal of Human Development, 2(1) November 2001: 7-17
2001 Contributor, Report of the Boston Group on Higher Education in Pakistan
2000 T. Banuri and Erika Spanger Siegfried, Global Public Policy Networks, Boston: Stockholm Environment Institute, 2000
2000 T. Banuri and Erika Spanger Siegfried, UNEP and Civil Society, Boston: Stockholm Environment Institute, 2000
2000 T. Banuri and Sujata Gupta, The Clean Development Mechanism and Sustainable Development: An Economic Analysis, Manila: ADB, February
1998 T. Banuri, Sharukh R. Khan, and Moazam Mahmood, eds. Just Development: Protecting the vulnerable and promoting growth, Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1998
1998 Pakistan: Environmental Impact of Cotton Production and Trade, in Konrad von Moltke et al., eds. Global Product Chains: Northern Consumers, Southern Producers, and Sustainability, (Environment and Trade 15: 1998)
1998 If You Torture the Data Long Enough: The Case of the Environmental Kuznets Curve, Paper submitted for the Human Development Report 1998, UNDP (January 1998)
1997 Sustainable Livelihoods, Governance, and Policy, Paper presented at UNDP Workshop on Sustainable Livelihoods, November
1995 F. Amalric and T. Banuri, People, the Environment, and Responsibility: Case Studies from Rural Pakistan, London: Taylor and Francis
1995 F. Amalric and T. Banuri, Population: Malady or Symptom?, Third World Quarterly, 1995
1995 Noah’s Ark or Jesus’s Cross: UNCED as a Tale of Two Cities, Review
1994 F. Amalric and T. Banuri, The Roots of Unsustainability: Colonization in Space and Time, in Philip B. Smith, Samuel E. Okoye, Jaap de Wilde, and Priya Deshingkar, eds., The World at Crossroads, London: Earthscan
1994 Rape as a metaphor for modernity, Development, Spring
1994 Justice is the Strife, New Perspectives Quarterly, 11(2): 33-7 (Spring)
1994 T. Banuri, G. Hyden, C. Juma, and M. Rivera, Defining and Operationalizing Sustainable Human Development: A Guide for the Practitioner, New York: UNDP, Bureau of Programme Policy and Evaluation
1994 T. Banuri and Franck Amalric, eds., Population, Environment and Responsibility, London: Parthenon
1993 Landscapes of Diplomatic Conflict, in Wolfgang Sachs, ed. Global Ecology: Conflicts and Contradictions, London: Zed Press
1993 Editor, with F. Apffel Marglin, Who Will Save the Forests?: Resistance, Knowledge, and the Environment, London: Zed Press
1993 T. Banuri and F. Apffel Marglin, A Systems of Knowledge approach to the environmental crisis, in Banuri and Apffel Marglin, eds., Who Will Save the Forests?, Zed Press
1993 T. Banuri and F. Apffel Marglin, The role of local knowledge in forest management, in Banuri and Apffel Marglin, eds., Who Will Save the Forests?, Zed Press
1993 Democratic decentralization and the Judiciary, SDPI Research Report No. 1
1993 Improving the Provision of Justice in Pakistan, SDPI Policy Paper Series, No. 2
1993 Implementation of the Environmental Protection Ordinance 1983, SDPI Policy Paper Series, No 4 (1993)
1993 T. Banuri and Martina Jagerhorn, To Him that Hath: The Social Costs of Economic Restructuring in escap Countries, Bangkok: escap
1992 Editor, with J. B. Schor, Financial Openness and National Autonomy Oxford: Clarendon Press
1992 Currency black markets and policy effectiveness, in Banuri and Schor, eds., Financial Openness, OUP
1992 T. Banuri and J. Holmberg, Governance for Sustainable Development: A Southern Perspective, London: IIED
1992 Decision making on sustainable development in Asia, Paris: UNESCO
1992 Quel espoir pour les pays de Sud? in Martine Barrere, ed. Terre, patrimoine, commune, Paris
1992 Editor, Economic Liberalization: No Panacea: The Experiences of Latin America and Asia, Oxford: Clarendon Press
1992 T. Banuri and E. Amadeo, Worlds within the Third World: Labor market institutions in Asia and Latin America, in Banuri, ed., No Panacea, OUP
1992 E. Amadeo and T. Banuri, Democracy, governance, and the management of conflict, in Banuri, ed., No Panacea, OUP
1992 The limits to economic liberalization: A comparison of Latin American and Asian experience, in Banuri, ed., No Panacea, OUP
1990 Modernization and its discontents, in F. Apffel Marglin and S. A. Marglin, eds., Dominating Knowledge, Oxford: Clarendon Press
1990 A wider perspective on macroeconomics, Paper presented at bids conference on structural adjustment, Dhaka, January 14-7
1990 Development and the politics of knowledge, in Apffel Marglin and Marglin, eds., Dominating Knowledge, OUP 1990
1989 Durre S. Ahmed and T. Banuri, Official nationalism, ethnicity and collective violence, Paper presented at wider Conference on Systems of Knowledge, Karachi, January 14-17, 1989
1986 Macroeconomic Effects of Worker Remittances, unpublished PhD dissertation, Harvard University