Shanta Devarajan is Professor of the Practice of International Development at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Prior to that, he was 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

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Region. He co-directed the

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2004. Before 1991, he was a faculty member at

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’s

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. 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 (economics), equity. Public economics builds on the theory of welfare economics and is ultimately used as ...

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. ...

and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing countries, and he is the author or co-author of more than 150 publications.

Selected works

* Ames, Brian, Ward Brown, Shanta Devarajan, and Alejandro Izquierdo. "Macroeconomic policy and poverty reduction." (2001). * Devarajan, Shanta, Stuti Khemani, and Shekhar 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

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