Agustín Arakaki is a Consultant in the Global Poverty and Equity Practice. He supports the World Bank’s poverty work in Costa Rica and Argentina. Before joining the World Bank, Agustín Arakaki worked as a research assistant at Centro de Estudios sobre Empleo, Población y Desarrollo – Universidad de Buenos Aires, and as a professor assistant at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento and Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. He holds a Master in Economics from Universidad de Buenos Aires.