HHB welcomes Francisco H.G. Ferreira - Senior Adviser in the World Bank’s Development Research Group and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn) - as a HHB Advisor.
Dr. Ferreira oversees the Bank’s research programs on poverty, inequality and agriculture. He was formerly the Bank’s Chief Economist for the Africa Region, and has also served as Deputy Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has published widely in the fields of poverty and inequality in developing countries and is a co-editor of the World Bank Economic Review and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Inequality, and the Review of Income and Wealth.