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Authors' Biographies
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LANT PRITCHETT is the Lead Socio-Economist in the World Bank’s Social Development unit for South Asia. He has been based in the New Delhi office since 2004. Pritchett joined the World Bank in 1988 after completing a Ph.D. in Economics at MIT. Between 2000 and 2004 he was on the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is co-author of Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn't and Why, Making Services Work for the Poor (World Development Report 2004), Infrastructure for Development (World Development Report 1994) and is the author of more than fifty scholarly articles and, most recently, Let Their People Come: Breaking the Deadlock on Global Labor Mobility (Brookings Press).
RINKU MURGAI is a Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management unit for South Asia. She has been based in the New Delhi office since 2003. After completing a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, she worked as an Economist in the World Bank's Development Research Group between 1998 and 2003. Murgai has worked on a range of issues in the areas of poverty measurement, impact evaluation of public programs, social protection, and functioning of rural land and water markets.
MARINA WES is a Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management unit for South Asia. She will move to the Bank’s New Delhi office in August 2006. Wes graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, and received her Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam from 1996-1997, and from 1997-2000 she was at the Office of the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She joined the World Bank in 2000. In addition to her work on macroeconomic and fiscal issues, her research record includes articles on trade, foreign direct investment, and the transition economies of Eastern Europe.
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