Tobias Zihao Wang is a consultant (economist) at the World Bank. He is interested in the interactions between labor market, household welfare, and credit market development. His work at the World Bank focuses on welfare measurement, welfare and income dynamics, and household labor market outcomes. He currently covers issues related to Pakistan household income dynamics and is guided by household survey evidence to formulate policy recommendations to improve job outcomes and boost shared prosperity. Prior to Pakistan, he was an analyst and later a technical lead over Afghanistan’s poverty analytics. He participated in revising Afghanistan’s poverty measurement methodology and was part of a team that measured poverty in the 2016/17 survey year. More recently, he led Afghanistan’s poverty measurement in the 2019/20 survey year. In 2020, he was invited as a guest lecturer offering a poverty measurement course to Afghanistan’s central statistical office. After August 2021, there was a paucity of information related to household welfare. To address that, he participated in collecting two rounds of high-frequency phone survey data and provided household welfare diagnostics. Before he rejoined the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, he was an analyst at the World Bank’s Bureaucracy Lab. He worked on topics related to performance management and civil service reform for the government of the Philippines. Tobias holds a Masters in International Economics and Finance from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.