Specialization:                                   Maurice Schiff specializes in international trade, agriculture, regional integration, trade and technology diffusion, and international migration.

Languages:
English, French, Spanish 

Maurice Schiff is a Lead Economist in the International Trade Unit, Development Research Group. He obtained a B.A. and M.A. from the Hebrew University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1983. Before joining the World Bank, he was Research Director in the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Concepcion, Chile. He is currently doing research on various international economics issues, including directing a research program on international migration. He co-directed a research program on regional integration which has generated a large number of published papers, a World Bank Policy Research Report entitled "Trade Blocs" and a book-length volume entitled "Regional Integration and Development." The volume has been translated in Arabic and Spanish and is being translated in Chinese, French and Russian. Other research issues include the role of knowledge spillovers on developing countries’ growth performance, regionalism and the terms of trade for excluded countries, the welfare implications of trade and migration policies in the presence of social capital, the geography of international trade, and the link between agriculture and the macro-economy. His work has included policy analysis and advice in the Dominican Republic, Mauritius, Morocco, Nicaragua, Tunisia, Uzbekistan and other countries in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, in the areas of trade policy, migration, and agriculture.