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This blog is maintained by Shanta Devarajan, the Chief Economist of the South Asia Region at the World Bank. Its goal is to create a conversation around how South Asia can end poverty in a generation. | Learn more...
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This analysis shows that current growth has already made it possible for countries in South Asia to pursue “second-generation” reforms. Ending poverty could be within grasp.
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Maitreyi Bordia Das is Senior Social Sector Specialist in the South Asia Sustainable Development Department and is based in Washington DC. She works on issues of equity, inclusion and related policy and institutional reform primarily in India and Bangladesh. She is also the region's representative on the Bank-wide Gender Board and is the Regional Gender Coordinator. Maitreyi has a PhD in Sociology (Demography) from the University of Maryland. Before joining the World Bank she was in the Maharashtra cadre of the Indian Administrative Service, having joined the IAS in 1986. She started her career as a lecturer in St Stephen's College, University of Delhi and has been a MacArthur Fellow at the Harvard Center of Population and Development Studies. She has also worked in the Caribbean as advisor to the UNDP.
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