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Claudia Gabarain
Blog coordinator
Claudia manages the web sites for the Bank's East Asia & Pacific region and added this blog to her brood in early 2008. She's a native of the beautiful town in the picture and had to move to Washington, DC, to stay away from the tempting, delicious food of her homeland. Her discovery of East Asian food in recent years has somewhat defeated the original objective, though.
She actually does like DC quite a bit, where she landed after working a few years in the online edition of The Miami Herald.
Latest Posts:
- Live web chat - How can cities prepare for and manage floods?
- Transcript: live chat on East Asia and Pacific economic prospects, November 2011
- Answers to your questions on the current economic outlook for the East Asia region
- World Bank economists for East Asia and Pacific take your questions on an online chat November 2
- World Bank opens largest set of development data --for free and in several languages
- Your questions about East Asia and Pacific's economies, answered by World Bank experts
- Random Hacks of Kindness: software developers create and share code to tackle disaster relief
- Your questions about East Asia and Pacific's rebound from the crisis, answered by World Bank economists
- More Vietnam in pictures: fighting and mitigating natural disasters
- Donate to help victims of typhoon Ketsan (Ondoy) in the Philippines - Some suggestions
