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Giovanna Prennushi
World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development
Giovanna Prennushi, an Italian national, has been working at the World Bank since 1993.  Before joining the WDR 2006 team, she was Lead Economist in the Poverty Reduction Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, where she worked on poverty analysis, monitoring, and evaluation and on poverty reduction strategies and the PRSP program, particularly in Ethiopia and Nepal.  Earlier, she worked as a country economist in the South Asia region. 

 

She holds a Laurea in Discipline Economiche e Sociali from Universita' Bocconi in Milano (Italy) and completed her Ph.D. in Political Economy in 1993 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.   While at Carnegie Mellon, she conducted research on the political economy of union behavior and on labor-management practices and their impact on productivity in the U.S. steel industry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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