Sergio Olivieri is a Senior Economist in the Poverty Global Practice at the World Bank, based in Quito Ecuador. His main research areas are distributional analysis of macroeconomic shocks, taxes and expenditures systems, understanding how economic growth affects poverty reduction, poverty measurement, and multidimensional poverty. He has published articles in refereed journals on demand systems, labor informality, polarization and multidimensional poverty and contributed to edited volumes on inequality, poverty and social cohesion. He currently works on migration, energy subsidies, labor and fiscal topics in Latin-American. He worked in poverty in Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Colombia, Ecuador and previously in CEDLAS in La Plata, Buenos Aires Argentina.