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Rogier van den Brink
Economics
Rogier van den Brink is a Lead Economist in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department (PREM) of the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank since October 2008. He oversees the PREM work in Mongolia and leads the Bank’s economic analysis on Mongolia including the Mongolia Quarterly Update.
