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Francisco H. G. Ferreira is a Lead Economist at the World Bank's Research Department. His research interests include poverty, inequality, and the political economy of development, and he has published some 25 journal articles and a number of books and book chapters on these topics. In his World Bank career, he has also served as the Deputy Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean (2009-2011), and as a co-Director of the team that wrote the World Development Report 2006, on Equity and Development.
Dr. Ferreira is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality and a former editor of Economía, the journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association. He also sits on the editorial boards of the Review of Income and Wealth, the World Bank Economic Review, and the Economic Analysis Review, and on the Councils of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth and of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). In 2000 and 2001 he received the Adriano Romariz Duarte and the Haralambos Simeonides Prizes from the Brazilian Economic and Econometric Societies, and later the Kendricks Prize for best article published in the Review of Income and Wealth during 2006-07.
He was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics. Prior to joining the World Bank's Research Department, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2011. |
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IZA Discussion Papers:
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Paolo Brunori
Francisco H.G. Ferreira
Vito Peragine
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Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons
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Francisco H.G. Ferreira
Jérémie Gignoux
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
(forthcoming in: World Bank Economic Review, 2013) |
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Francisco H.G. Ferreira
Anna Fruttero
Phillippe Leite
Leonardo Lucchetti
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Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008
(published in: Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 64 (1), 151-176) |
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IZA Policy Papers:
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Francisco H.G. Ferreira
Maria Ana Lugo
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Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Looking for a Middle Ground
(forthcoming in: World Bank Research Observer, 2013) |
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