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Rogier van den Brink

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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 the Philippines and leads the Bank’s economic analysis on the country including the Philippines Quarterly Update. Prior to his assignment in the Philippines, Mr. van den Brink also served as lead economist for Mongolia.

He has been with the World Bank since 1992. Before joining the East Asia Region, he worked in various positions in the Africa Region, including as Senior Country Economist in South Africa; Deputy Resident Representative in Zimbabwe; and Special Assistant to the Vice Presidents.

He holds a PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA, and a Masters degree in sociology from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Before joining the World Bank, he was a Research Associate at Cornell University and an Associate Expert with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands in Burkina Faso. His academic publications include "Economic Policy and Household Welfare During Crisis and Adjustment in Tanzania" (New York University Press, 1993); and "The Economics of Cain and Abel" (about the eternal conflict between herders and farmers) in The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, February 1995, which was awarded the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for the best written article in the Journal of Development Studies in 1995.

On land reform, his publications include: “Agricultural Land Redistribution: Toward Greater Consensus.” (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Washington DC, 2009).