Markus Goldstein
Senior Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Markus Goldstein is a development economist with experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. He is currently the Gender Practice Leader in the Africa Region and a Lead Economist in the Research Group of the World Bank. His current research centers on issues of gender and economic activity, focusing on agriculture and small scale enterprises. He is currently involved in a number of impact evaluations on these topics across Africa. Markus has taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Ghana, Legon, and Georgetown University. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Blogging on: Development Impact, Voices
- 05/15/13 Getting to better data: Do men say yes more often than women?
- 05/01/13 What happens when large ruminants (and some training) meet poverty traps
- 04/17/13 Getting to better data: who does the editing?
- 04/03/13 Q&A with Arun Agrawal, Editor of World Development Part II
- 04/01/13 Q&A with Arun Agrawal, Editor of World Development Part I
- 03/20/13 Climate change and conflict
- 03/07/13 Introducing the Africa Gender Innovation Lab
- 02/20/13 The multi-layered benefits of daycare: evidence from Mozambique
- 02/11/13 Notes from the field: collecting gender disaggregated data in practice
- 01/23/13 Dying from malaria in the market for lemons
- 01/09/13 Learning from the experiments that didn't happen: Part II
- 01/07/13 Learning from the experiments that didn’t happen: Part I
- 12/19/12 Power to the people? Taking a look at community driven reconstruction in the DRC
- 11/20/12 Should we believe the hype about adolescent girls?
- 11/13/12 Notes from the field: Setting up a firm survey in Malawi
- 10/23/12 Learning from (partial) failure
- 10/16/12 Banking through your wife?
- 10/02/12 Pull him down? How about pull her down...
- 09/25/12 The Tao of Impact Evaluation
- 09/18/12 How can we do better business training evaluations?
- 09/11/12 Does Business Training Work?
- 09/04/12 Better Nutrition Through Information
- 07/25/12 Paper or Plastic? Part II: Approaching the survey revolution with caution
- 07/17/12 Notes from the Field: How to incentivize your survey team
- 07/10/12 DFID's Approach to Impact Evaluation - Part II
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