The Chief Economist of the World Bank (full title: Senior Vice President for Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group) is the senior economist at the
World Bank Group
The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and best-known development bank in the world and an observer at the United Nations Development Gr ...
, tasked with providing intellectual leadership and direction to the Bank’s overall
international development
International development or global development is a broad concept denoting the idea that societies and countries have differing levels of economic or human development on an international scale. It is the basis for international classificatio ...
strategy and economic research agenda, at global, regional and country levels.
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As a member of the Bank’s
senior management
Senior management, executive management, upper management, or a management is generally individuals at the highest level of management of an organization who have the day-to-day tasks of managing that organization—sometimes a company or a corpor ...
team, the person advises the President and Bank’s management on economic issues.
List of Chief Economists of the World Bank
See also
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Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund
References
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