Rasmus Heltberg
Lead Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
Rasmus Heltberg is a Lead Evaluation Officer with the World Bank's a Independent Evaluation Group. Prior to this, he was a Senior Social Development Specialist with the World Bank and a member of the core team for the World Development Report 2014 on Managing Risk for Development. Trained as a development economist, Rasmus has written extensively on poverty, vulnerability, social policy, natural resource management, and adaptation to climate change. He recently co-edited the book ‘Living through Crises: How the Food, Fuel, and Financial Shocks Affect the Poor’ (World Bank Frontiers of Social Development 2012). He also helped design a game that explains how social protection can promote adaptation to climate change in Africa. Before joining the World Bank in 2002, he was Associate Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Blogging on: Let's Talk Development
- Extending a helping hand during the Great Recession
- When firefighting is not enough: The humanitarian community needs better risk management
- Why discrimination?
- Reflections from the WDR road show
- Champions of risk management
- Protecting the vulnerable during crisis and disaster: Part I
- We need to move from arbitrary crisis response to systematic risk management: A perspective from WDR 2014
- Coping with large shocks: What makes it different?
- Adaptation to Climate Tied to Development
- Climate dilemmas in Central Asia
- Strong Interest in DM2009 on Climate Adaptation
- Development Marketplace seeks volunteers to help assess innovative climate change ideas
- Conflict, Displacement, and pro-poor Adaptation
- Are we prepared? The case of the disappearing fish
- Blogging for pro-poor climate adaptation: II. Wanted: new ideas for combating vulnerability to Climate Change
- Why adaptation?
- Blogging for pro-poor climate adaptation series: I. Nailing down pro-poor adaptation
- Climate adaptation from the bottom up
- Wanted: New Ideas for Combating Vulnerability to Climate Change (part 2 of 2)
- Wanted: New Ideas for Combating Vulnerability to Climate Change
- Nailing down pro-poor adaptation
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