Lidia Ceriani is short term consultant at ECA-PREM, World Bank. A Ph.D graduate in Public Economics from the University of Pavia, she has been lecturer at the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, Bocconi University (2006-2012). She is a member of the Italian EUROMOD team (a multi-country Europe-wide tax-benefit model) and she works in the editorial office of the Review of Income and Wealth. Her research interests are in the fields of Income Distribution, Poverty Measurement and Welfare Effects of Privatization Policies.