Shanta Devarajan
Shanta Devarajan is the Senior Director for Development Economics (DEC) and the acting World Bank Group Chief Economist.
Previously, he was the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Middle East and North 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, the South Asia Region and Africa Region. He was a 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.
Shanta's latest blog posts can also be found on his blog, Future Development.
- Yes, South Sudan Can
- Transfer mineral revenues directly to citizens—and avoid the resource curse
- Is Africa more vulnerable to oil price increases?
- Human Rights and Human Development
- Two ways of overcoming government failure
- Six non-obvious points about conflict, security and development
- Can randomized control trials reduce poverty?
- Economic Policy in Africa’s Youngest Country
- Africa on the brink of a take off
- What we are reading this week
- What we're reading this week
- Luanda's vertical slums
- What we're reading this week
- Commodity prices and African economies
- Water, water everywhere…
- What caused the HIV epidemic in Africa?
- Seven steps to structural transformation
- Evaluating Millennium Villages Revisited
- How CGE models influence policy
- QE2 and Africa
- Le Développement 3.0
- Development 3.0
- Is our Tanzanian children learning?
- What’s infrastructure got to do with it?
- L'Afrique et les objectifs de développement pour le Millénaire
- Unnecessary treatment and systems
- Thanks for your comment. Like
- 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