ELIZABETH M. KING is the Research Manager for Public Services of the Development Research Group. Until Spring 2005, she was the Lead Economist of the Human Development Unit in the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Region. Her main research interests have been the determinants of investments in human capital, the linkages among dimensions of human capital, poverty and economic development, and the impact of education reforms such as decentralization in developing countries. Several of her studies have examined the significance of gender differences in the development process, as exemplified in her 2001 publication Engendering Development: Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice. Since joining the World Bank, she has worked on countries as diverse as Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Nicaragua, and the Philippines, among others. She was a member of two World Development Report teams, and has served on the Editorial Board of the World Bank Economic Review. Ms. King received her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University, and has taught economics at the University of the Philippines, Tulane University, and UCLA.
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