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Marcela Eslava is Assistant Professor of Economics at Universidad de Los Andes, in Bogotá. She holds a PhD degree from University of Maryland at College Park. Mrs. Eslava’s main research interests are in Macroeconomics and Political Economy. In the former area, her research agenda has focused on the effects of market reforms on allocative efficiency and aggregate productivity. She has also studied the political economy of fiscal policy. Past
Secretary 2005 to 2007 Marcela Meléndez is Associate Consultant at Economica Consultores Ltda, a Colombian firm that specializes in regulation of infrastructure services, and external Associate Researcher at Fedesarrollo. Before that she was Research Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, Deputy Director at Fedesarrollo, and professor and researcher at the Department of Economics of Universidad de los Andes. Meléndez has a B.A. degree in Economics from Universidad de los Andes, and a Ph. D. degree in Economics from Yale University. Her expertise is in the field of Applied Microeconomics, with focus in Industrial Organization. She has done research on productivity, provision of infrastructure services, intellectual property rights, regulation, and antitrust. Past
Secretary 2000 to June 2005 Ariel Fiszbein is the Lead Economist for the Human Development Department in the Latin America and Caribbean region of the World Bank. Previously, he was Human Development Leader for Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay at the World Bank. He was also a Principal Economist at the World Bank Institute where he coordinated the Growth and Poverty Team. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Fiszbein received his Licenciatura in Economics at Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires) and Ph.D in economics at University of California, Berkeley. He has been at the World Bank since 1991 where he has held several positions. His research work is on poverty and inequality, education, labor markets, decentralization and institutional development. Some of his most recent publications include: "Working together for a Change: Government, Business and Civic Partnerships for Poverty Reduction in LAC" (co-authored with Pamela Lowden, EDI, 1999), "Fiscal Decentralization in Colombia: The Central Role of the Central Government" (co-authored with Richard Bird, Cambridge University Press, 1998) and "Reforming Institutions in Transition Societies: Education Decentralization in Central and Eastern Europe" (WBI, 2001).
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