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Shantayanan Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Africa Region. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group, and the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network, and of the South Asia Region. He was the director of the World Development Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
The author or co-author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan’s research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing countries. Born in Sri Lanka, Mr. Devarajan received his B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
- 04/09/13 User fees and abuser fees
- 01/28/13 Multipliers in Europe and Africa
- 01/22/13 The Costs of Inaction
- 01/15/13 Has the African Growth Miracle Already Happened?
- 11/19/12 Africa's MICs
- 10/23/12 Improving access to drugs: Fitting the solution to the problem
- 09/20/12 What will it take to end poverty in Africa?
- 09/17/12 Africa’s Learning Crisis
- 06/11/12 The politics of service delivery
- 05/11/12 A wiki on Africa Youth Employment
- 05/01/12 About Development Economics
- 03/01/12 Africa is rising - is poverty falling?
- 02/14/12 Impact evaluation as leverage
- 02/02/12 La crise de la zone euro et ses impacts sur l’Afrique sub-saharienne
- 01/17/12 In defense of industrial policy
- 12/29/11 Une année où l’Afrique a vécu dangereusement
- 11/15/11 Informing the Poor: Four Critiques
- 10/06/11 Africa’s statistical tragedy
- 09/19/11 Using knowledge to empower poor people
- 09/07/11 Tertiary Education: Blind Spot or System Failure?
- 08/25/11 Irrigation and climate change
- 07/19/11 Yes, South Sudan Can
- 06/29/11 Transfer mineral revenues directly to citizens—and avoid the resource curse
- 06/22/11 Is Africa more vulnerable to oil price increases?
- 06/20/11 Human Rights and Human Development
- Unnecessary treatment and systems
- Teachers and learning outcomes
- Teacher resistance and learning goals
- Public v private
- Low teachers' wages
- Lessons from research
- Learning outcomes and de-politicization of education
- International community
- Informal to formal
- Income effects and subsidies
- Growth and climate change
- Execution deficit and cash tranfers
- Equity in drug prices
- Disentangling the multiple factors
- Chronic illness v. communicable diseases