HKS Arab Caucus Workshop on the World Bank's Strategy in the MENA region- May 23- 9.30 am to 12 am - Updated Agenda

[Abdelhamid, Souad]

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This event is co-sponsored by the World Bank and the Office of Career Advancement at the Kennedy School

 

Speaker:     Mr. Shanta Deverajan, Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region 

Moderator: Professor Ishac Diwan, Lecturer in Public Policy  at Harvard kennedy School and Director for Africa and the Middle East at the Growth Lab

 

Topic

Dr.Devarajan will discuss;

- the main four pillars of the World Bank’s strategy in the MENA Region namely  Governance, Inclusion, Private Sector Growth and Jobs

- the main tactical shifts the World Bank is adopting to implement its strategies in the region.

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Agenda

 

9.30-10 am: Registration and Breakfast

 

10 am to 10.40 am:  World’s Bank Strategy in MENA- Session presented by Dr . Shanta Deverajan, Chief Economist of the MENA Region

 

10.45 am to 11 am: Break

 

11 am to 12 am: Questions and Answers

 

About Professor Ishac Diwan

 

Ishac Diwan is Lecturer in Public Policy and the director for Africa and the Middle East at the growth lab of the Center for International Development. Diwan received his PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught international finance at NYUs Business School from 1984-87. In 1987, he joined the World Bank in the Research Complex, where he focused on international finance, trade, and macroeconomics. In 1992, with the coming of the Oslo Agreements, Diwan joined the Banks Middle East department, first as the country economist for the West Bank and Gaza and later as a regional economist. He contributed to the Economic Research Forum and the Mediterranean Development Forum. Most recently, Diwan lived in Addis Abeba (2002-07) and Accra (2007-11), as the Banks Country Director for Ethiopia and Sudan first, and then for Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, and Guinea. Diwan led several ambitious initiatives, such as Ethiopias Productive Safety Net, Ethiopias Protection of Basic Services Program, and in West Africa, initiatives to support commercial agriculture, natural resources development, and jobs for the youth. Diwan will be directing the Africa Growth Project from the CID, and the Economic and Political Transformation group at the ERF.

About Dr. Shanta Deverajan

 

Dr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa Region.  Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group, and the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network, South Asia, and Africa Region. He was the director of the World Development Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

The author or co-author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan’s research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing countries. Born in Sri Lanka, Mr. Devarajan received his B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.