Economist

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives.

For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd Within this architecture, the Prosperity vertical helps countries accelerate inclusive growth and job creation; strengthen macro-fiscal foundations, including debt sustainability, debt management, domestic resource mobilization, and expenditure efficiency; promote a resilient and inclusive financial sector, business‑enabling policies and regulations, and trade facilitation; while advancing transparent, effective, accountable institutions.

The Distributional Impact of Policies Global unit in the Fiscal Policy and Growth Department focuses on integrating distributional analysis of reforms and investments into operational knowledge and lending and comprises applied microeconomists, statisticians, data scientists, and social and behavioral scientists who support WBG teams and governments to ensure that WBG interventions and country policies and programs reduce poverty and inequality in a sustainable manner.

Duties and Accountabilities

The Distributional Impact of Policies unit is looking for an Economist to join our team, based in Washington, DC. The successful candidate will have the following duties:

• Design and implement cutting edge analytics on poverty and equity that provide policy relevant guidance and foster public debate, including acting as a team member on global reports.
• Support the development of micro-empirical models to examine the linkages between welfare, fiscal and social policies, incorporating spatial dimensions as appropriate.
• Develop and apply innovative analytical frameworks, tools, and technologies to assess spatial disparities and the distributional impact of policies.
• Support country teams in integrating geospatial and subnational fiscal analytics that can strengthen operational engagement and inform policy dialogue.
• Provide support to country teams in the design of operations, and in strengthening data systems to underpin evidence-based policymaking.
• Contribute to the production of public goods and knowledge products and facilitate knowledge flows between country and global teams.
• Contribute to corporate engagement of the Department, including reviews, preparation of briefs and policy notes on thematic issues, and the delivery of just-in-time rapid analytics and diagnostics.