Shanta Devarajan is Senior Director for Development Economics (DEC) and a former Acting Chief Economist of the

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. He previously served as

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of the

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’s Middle East and North Africa Region, Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group, and the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network, the

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Region and

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

Region. He co-directed the

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2004. Before 1991, he was a faculty member at

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’s

John F. Kennedy School of Government The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public ...

. His research covers

public economics Public economics ''(or economics of the public sector)'' is the study of government policy through the lens of economic efficiency and equity. Public economics builds on the theory of welfare economics and is ultimately used as a tool to improve ...

natural resources Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications. This includes the sources of valued characteristics such as commercial and industrial use, aesthetic value, scientific interest and cultural value. O ...

and the

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, and general equilibrium modeling of developing countries, and he is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications.

Selected works

* Ames, Brian, Ward Brown, Shanta Devarajan, and Alejandro Izquierdo. "Macroeconomic policy and poverty reduction." (2001). * Devarajan, Shanta, Stuti Khemani, and Shekar Shah. "The politics of partial decentralization." Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction (2009): 102-121. * Devarajan, Shanta, Jeffrey D. Lewis, and Sherman Robinson. "Getting the model right: The general equilibrium approach to adjustment policy." World Bank and International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC Photocopy (1994).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Devarajan, Shanta 20th-century Indian economists 21st-century Indian economists Living people Sri Lankan Hindus World Bank Chief Economists Year of birth missing (living people)