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Shahid Javed Burki
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 5
Citations - 234
Shahid Javed Burki is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Basic needs & Redistribution of income and wealth. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 224 citations.
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Basic needs: Some issues
Paul Streeten,Shahid Javed Burki +1 more
TL;DR: The need for and main elements of a strategy aimed at the abolition of absolute poverty within a short period of time are discussed in this paper, where the basic needs are defined as food, clothing, safe drinking water, and shelter.
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Meeting basic needs: An overview
Shahid Javed Burki,Mahbub Ul Haq +1 more
TL;DR: The authors summarizes some of the main issues related to the World Bank's basic-needs oriented lending program and discusses the lessons learned with regard to sectoral policies and programming for their basic needs and their implications for future lending.
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World economy in transition : essays presented to Surendra Patel on his sixtieth birthday
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Pakistan's development: An overview
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed Pakistan's economic history from 1947, the time of independence, to 1977, when political power moved once again from a civilian government to a military regime.