Markus Goldstein
Lead Economist
Markus Goldstein is a development economist with experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. He is currently a Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for Africa at the World Bank, where he leads the Gender Innovation Lab. His current research centers on issues of gender and economic activity, focusing on agriculture and small scale enterprises. He is currently involved in a number of impact evaluations on these topics across Africa. Markus has taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Ghana, Legon, and Georgetown University. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Blogging on: Africa Can..., Development Impact
- Notes from the Field: How to incentivize your survey team
- DFID's Approach to Impact Evaluation - Part II
- DFID's Approach to Impact Evaluation - Part I
- Notes from the field: Making the most of monitoring data
- Getting good civil servants for tough jobs
- Dads and Moms
- Measuring Entrepreneurship (II)
- Measuring entrepreneurship (I)
- Calling all skeptics
- If you build it, they will come. Especially girls.
- Robin Hood and bureaucratic malfeasance
- Is our columnists learning?
- It's Hard To Save at Home
- Promouvoir l’égalité des sexes en Afrique
- Getting to Equal in Africa: Closing the Gender Gap for Women and Girls
- Calling the Cops? Institutional Reform in the Rajasthan Police
- Empowering girls through education?
- Development Impact turns one – tell us what year two should look like
- Evaluate before you leap -- volunteers needed!
- Incentivizing Aid
- Bringing opportunity to the youth? Evidence from Northern Uganda
- Sometimes the money doesn't matter
- Borrowing with blinders on?
- When women are in charge
- Evaluating trade interventions
Blogging on: Africa Can..., Development Impact
