The World Bank

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The World Bank's Poverty and Equity Global Practice is looking for imaginative and innovative empirical micro-economist with a demonstrated track record of sound analytical work and excellent judgment to create innovative and just-in-time solutions to promote evidence-based policy making. Key focus areas are in assessing the distributional impacts of climate change, climate action, and of alternative tax and spending policies.

The candidate will become familiar with microsimulation approaches and work with country teams to customize these to country specific circumstances. This work includes just-in-time assistance in the context of reforms being undertaken by member countries. In addition, the successful candidate will: 1) develop code that can be easily implemented by country teams; 2) develop Mata and other functions that address common problems and improve run times of code; and 3) propose innovative methods and solutions, using STATA or other languages, to assess the distributional impacts of alternative reforms.

The candidate will work closely with country and global teams to develop solutions, often under tight deadlines but with potentially high impacts. Strong attention to detail, adaptability, and the ability to work in teams is required. The consultant would ideally be based in Washington DC, but this is not a strict requirement.