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The team responsible for development of this tool

Maurizio Bussolo has been working at the World Bank since 2003, working on quantitative analyses of economic policy and development including: poverty, income distribution, labor markets, remittances, international trade, Millennium Development Goals, agriculture, environment. Among his other activities, he monitors and forecasts macroeconomic trends in Latin America and the Caribbean and has worked on several Economic and Sector Work projects with some very poor countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Chad, Ghana, Ethiopia) and lower to middle income countries in Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama). Before joining the World Bank, he worked at the OECD Development Centre, was previously research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute in London, and before economist at Fedesarrollo and professor at the University Los Andes in Bogotá Colombia. He has published in international journals and his recent publications include: “The Impact of Macroeconomic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution – Macro-Micro Evaluation Techniques and Tools” jointly edited with Francois Bourguignon and Luiz Pereira da Silva. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Warwick, UK.

Rafael E. De Hoyos  participated in the GIDD project from 2006 to 2008 as a researcher for the Development Economics Prospects Group at the World Bank. In 2008, he became the chief of advisers to the under-minister of education in Mexico. Previously, Mr. De Hoyos was a research fellow at the Judge Business School in the University of Cambridge. He has worked as a consultant to the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Mexico and at the UN World Institute for Development Economics Research in Finland. Mr. De Hoyos holds a PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge. His main research has focused on the economics of income inequality and how this is linked with the process of globalization.

Denis Medvedev participated in this project as a Young Professional with the Development Prospects Group of the World Bank. His responsibilities included working on international trade issues and the Millennium Development Goals. He worked on several of the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects reports, and was previously a consultant at the IFC. He holds a Ph.D. from American University.