This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Marcelo shares his experience with “putting a face” to the poor and how this idea – of getting information on who the poor are as individuals – has spread to 70 countries. He talks about how today we are on our way to knowing the poor by name, individually, and how technology has helped us reach the excluded.
Marcelo Giugale is the Senior Director of the World Bank Group’s Global Practice on
Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, the professional home of the Group’s 300-plus
macroeconomists. An international development leader, his twenty-five years of experience
span the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin-America, and Africa, where he led
senior-level policy dialogue and over thirty billion dollars in lending operations across the
development spectrum. He has published on macroeconomic policy, finance, subnational
fiscal rules, development economics, business, agriculture and applied econometrics.
Notably, he was the chief editor of collections of policy notes published for the presidential
transitions in Mexico (2000), Colombia (2002), Ecuador (2003), Bolivia (2006) and Peru (2006). In 2014, he authored “Economic
Development: What Everyone Needs to Know”, a featured volume by Oxford University Press. He pioneered the World Bank Group’s
first sub-national budgetary support operation (Mexico, 2000), the “Listening to Latin America” and “Listening to Africa” initiatives,
in which mobile phones were used to conduct continuous household surveys, the Africa Gender Lab impact evaluation unit, and the
Human Opportunity Index. His opinion editorials are published in the leading newspapers and blog-sites of the USA, Latin-America
and Africa. You can follow Marcelo on Twitter at @Marcelo WB.
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