Expertise
Developing economies; inequality; Latin America; market reforms: poverty; subjective well-being
- Language Fluency:
- French
- Spanish
Background
Current Positions
Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Past Positions
Vice President and Director, Governance Studies, Brookings; Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University; Special Advisor to the Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; Special Advisor to the Executive Vice President, Inter-American Development Bank; Visiting Fellow, World Bank; Assistant Professor, Duke University
Education
Ph.D., Oxford University, 1989; M.A., School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1986; A.B., Princeton University, 1984
"What are the implications [of the financial crisis] for Latin America? On the one hand, happiness drops could be larger than in the U.S. as most citizens in the region have less of a margin to absorb income losses. On the other hand, the uncertainty effects might be smaller, given that they are far more accustomed to economic uncertainty."