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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Francisco de Hollanda Guimarães Ferreira Correspondence Address: The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433, USA Phone: (202) fferreira@worldbank.org 1) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2011-present Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank Deputy Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank : Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank : Co-Director, World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development : Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank : Assistant Professor of Economics, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) : Economist, Poverty Reduction Department, World Bank. 2) EDUCATION : PhD (Economics) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Thesis Topic: "Structural Adjustment, Income Distribution and the Role of Government: Theory, and Evidence from Brazil", supervised by Professors Nicholas Stern and Frank Cowell : M.Sc. Economics (awarded with Distinction) at the LSE, on the C.K. Hobson Scholarship : B.Sc. (Econ.): International Trade and Development at the LSE, on the C.S. MacTaggart Scholarship. Graduated with First Class Honours. 3) PRIZES AND AWARDS The Kendricks Prize for Best Article, (Review of Income and Wealth) The Adriano Romariz Duarte Award for Best Article (Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 2001) The Haralambos Simeonides Prize for Best Article (ANPEC, 2000) The Sir Huw Wheldon Prize (LSE, 1990) The Gerstenberg Prize in Economics (University of London, 1990) The C.S. Mactaggart Prize (LSE, 1990)

2 4) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Editorial Boards: Journal of Economic Inequality (Editor in Chief) World Bank Economic Review Review of Income and Wealth Revista de Análisis Económico / Economic Analysis Review Economía: The Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association ( ) Boards, Councils and Committees: Research Fellow, IZA Scientific Council of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), Council of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Steering Committee: UNDP Regional Human Development Report for Latin America, Decentralization Task Force, Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, Advisory Board of the Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e da Sociedade (Rio de Janeiro), Executive Committee, Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, Advisory Board of the Institute of Public Policy and Development Studies at the Universidad de las Américas (Puebla, Mexico), Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, Co-director, Network for Inequality and Poverty Research (World Bank, IDB & LACEA), Visiting and Summer Lectureships: Île-de-France Visiting Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics: 2009, 2011 UNIDEA/ University of Florence Summer School, Civita Castellana, Italy, 2007 Summer School on Inequality, Universitat de Illes Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, 2003 LSE/Moscow State University Summer School, Moscow, Russia, Program Committees: Member, International Program Committees, LACEA Annual Meetings, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, , 2012 Member, Program Committee, Special IARIW conference on Informality and Development, Nepal 2009 Member, Program Committee, III Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, 2009 Member, Program Committee, XIX Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society, Member, Program Committee, XXVIII Encontro Nacional de Economia (ANPEC), Refereeing American Economic Review; Economica; Economic Development and Cultural Change; Economics of Education Review; Economic Journal; Economics Letters, Economics of Transition; European Economic Review; International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Development Studies; Journal of Economic Inequality; Journal of Human Resources; Journal of Latin American Studies; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Public Economics; Oxford Economic Papers; Review of Economic Studies; Review of Economics and Statistics; Review of Income and Wealth; World Bank Economic Review; World Development; etc. 5) PUBLICATIONS Recent Research Papers The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #5873 (with Jérémie Gignoux) Own and Sibling Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Theory and Evidence from Cambodia, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #5001 (with Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady).

3 Articles in Refereed Journals Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008, Journal of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming (with Anna Fruttero, Phillippe Leite and Leonardo Lucchetti) Is there a Metropolitan Bias? The Relationship between Poverty and City Size in Selected Developing Countries, World Bank Economic Review, forthcoming. (with Celine Ferré and Peter Lanjouw) The Measurement of Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and an application to Latin America, Review of Income and Wealth, 57 (4): (with Jérémie Gignoux). Measuring Inequality of Opportunity with Imperfect Data: The case of Turkey, Journal of Economic Inequality, 9 (4): (with Jérémie Gignoux and Meltem Aran). The Informal Economy in Developing Countries: An Introduction, Review of Income and Wealth 57 (SI): pp. S1- S (with Derek Blades and Maria Ana Lugo) Poverty Reduction without Economic Growth? Explaining Brazil s poverty dynamics, , Journal of Development Economics, 93, pp.20-36, 2010 (with Martin Ravallion and Phillippe G. Leite). Aggregate Economic Shocks, Child Schooling and Child Health, World Bank Research Observer, 24 (2): pp , (with Norbert Schady). The Rise and Fall of Brazilian Inequality: , Macroeconomic Dynamics, 12 (S2), pp (with Phillippe Leite and Julie Litchfield). "Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions", Journal of Economic Inequality, 6 (2), pp , (with François Bourguignon and Phillippe G. Leite). Local inequality and project choice: Theory and evidence from Ecuador, Journal of Public Economics, 92, pp (with M. Caridad Araujo, Peter Lanjouw and Berk Özler). Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil, Review of Income and Wealth, 53 (4), pp , (with François Bourguignon and Marta Menéndez). Inefficient Lobbying, Populism and Oligarchy, Journal of Public Economics, 91, pp , 2007 (with Filipe Campante). Equity, Efficiency and Inequality Traps: A Research Agenda, Journal of Economic Inequality, 5, pp (with François Bourguignon and Michael Walton). Ascensão e Queda da Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil, Econômica, 8 (1), pp , (with Phillippe G. Leite, Julie A. Litchfield and Gabriel Ulyssea) Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling and Child Labor: Micro-simulating Brazil s Bolsa Escola Program, World Bank Economic Review, 17 (2), pp , (with François Bourguignon and Phillippe Leite). Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Brazil: can microeconomic simulations help?, Economía, 3 (2), pp , (with Phillippe Leite). A Robust Poverty Profile for Brazil Using Multiple Data Sources, Revista Brasileira de Economia, 57 (1), pp.59-92, (with Peter Lanjouw and Marcelo Neri). Qualidade e Eqüidade no Ensino Fundamental Brasileiro, Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico, 32 (3), pp , (with Ângela Albernaz and Creso Franco). "Missing the Target: Assessing Social Expenditures in Brazil", The Brown Journal of World Affairs, VIII (2), pp , 2002 (with José Márcio Camargo).

4 "Education for the Masses?: The Interaction between Wealth, Educational and Political Inequalities", Economics of Transition, 9 (2), pp , "Education Or Inflation? The Micro and Macroeconomics of the Brazilian Income Distribution during ", Cuadernos de Economia, 38 (114), pp , (with Julie A. Litchfield) "Rural Nonfarm Activities and Poverty in the Brazilian Northeast", World Development, 29 (3), pp , (with Peter Lanjouw) La Educación y la Distribución del Ingreso en el Brasil Urbano, , CEPAL Review, 71, pp.43-64, (with Ricardo Paes de Barros) Calm After the Storms: Income Distribution and Welfare in Chile, , World Bank Economic Review, 13, (3), pp , (with Julie A. Litchfield) Economic Transition and the Distributions of Income and Wealth, Economics of Transition, 7 (2), pp , The Slippery Slope: Explaining the Increase in Extreme Poverty in Urban Brazil, , Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 19 (2) pp , November (with Ricardo Paes de Barros). "Income Distribution in Brazil, : Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches", Journal of Income Distribution, 8 (1), pp , (with Frank Cowell and Julie A. Litchfield). Inequality and Redistribution During and After Transition, Discussion Forum on Distribution and Growth during Transition, Economic Systems, 22 (1), pp.56-59, Books Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class (Washington, DC: The World Bank). Forthcoming. (with J. Messina, J. Rigolini, L. F. López-Calva, M. A. Lugo and R. Vakis) Life Chances in Turkey: Expanding opportunities for the next generation (Washington, DC: The World Bank) (with J. Hentschel, M. Aran, R. Can, J. Gignoux and A. Uraz) Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean (Washington, DC: Palgrave MacMillan and The World Bank) (with Ricardo Paes de Barros, José Molinas and Jaime Saavedra) The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America (Washington, DC; The World Bank and Oxford University Press) (edited with François Bourguignon and Nora Lustig) Inequality in Latin America: Breaking with History? (Washington, DC: The World Bank), 2004 (with David de Ferranti, Guillermo Perry and Michael Walton) Everyone s Miracle?: Revisiting Poverty and Inequality in East Asia; (Washington, DC: The World Bank) (with Vinod Ahuja, Benu Bidani and Michael Walton) Chapters in books Distributions in Motion: Economic Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Dynamics. Chapter 13 in Philip Jefferson (ed.) Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. Inequality of Opportunity in Latin America: Economic well-being, education and health (with Anna Crespo), Chapter 2 in M. Blofield (ed.): The Great Gap: Inequality and the politics of redistribution in Latin America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press Social Protection in Latin America: Achievements and Limitations (with David Robalino). Chapter 33 in José Antonio Ocampo and Jaime Ros (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics. (Oxford, OUP)

5 Inequality of Opportunity for Education: Turkey (with Jérémie Gignoux), Chapter 6 in Ravi Kanbur and Michael Spence (eds.) Equity and Growth in a Globalizing World. (Washington, DC: Commission on Growth and Development) Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows and Wage Inequality in Brazil (with Phillippe G. Leite and Matthew Wai-Poi), Chapter 8 in M. Nissanke and E. Thorbecke (eds.) The Poor under Globalization in Asia, Latin America and Africa. (Oxford, OUP), Halving Brazil s Poverty: (with Phillippe Leite), Chapter 29 in von Braun, Hill and Pandya-Lorch (eds.) The Poorest and the Hungry: Assessments, Analyses, and Actions (Washington, DC: IFPRI) Poverty and Inequality: The Global Context (with Martin Ravallion), Chapter 24 in Brian Nolan, Wiemer Salverda and Tim Smeeding (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality. (Oxford, OUP) Entry on Global Income Inequality (with F. Bourguignon, B. Milanovic and M. Ravallion), in the Princeton Encyclopaedia of the World Economy (Princeton University Press) Can the distributional impacts of macroeconomic shocks be predicted? A comparison of top-down macro-micro models with historical data for Brazil (with Phillippe Leite, Luiz Pereira da Silva and Paulo Picchetti), Chapter 5 in Bourguignon, Bussolo and Pereira da Silva (eds.): The impact of economic policies on poverty and income distribution - Macro-Micro Evaluation Techniques and Tools. (Washington, DC: Palgrave Macmillan and The World Bank) Os efeitos do antigo programa Bolsa Escola sobre a pobreza, a desigualdade, a escolaridade e o trabalho infantile: uma abordagem de microsimulação (with François Bourguignon and Phillippe Leite), Chapter 22 in Barros, Foguel and Ulyssea (eds.): Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil: uma análise da queda recente (Volume 2), (Rio de Janeiro, IPEA) (Reprint in Portuguese translation from WBER article, 2003.) Ascensão e queda da desigualdade de renda no Brasil: uma atualização para 2005 (with Phillippe Leite, Julie Litchfield and Gabriel Ulyssea), Chapter 11 in Barros, Foguel and Ulyssea (eds.): Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil: uma análise da queda recente (Volume 1), (Rio de Janeiro, IPEA) Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Development (with Michael Walton), Opening Address in Kochendörfer-Lucius and Pleskovic (eds.): Equity and Development (Washington, DC; InWent and The World Bank) Introduction (with F. Bourguignon and N. Lustig), Chapter 1 in Bourguignon, Ferreira, and Lustig (eds.): The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America (Washington, DC; The World Bank and Oxford University Press) Decomposing Changes in the Distribution of Household Incomes: Methodological Aspects (with Bourguignon), Chapter 2 in Bourguignon, Ferreira, and Lustig (eds.): The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America (Washington, DC; The World Bank and Oxford University Press) The Slippery Slope: Explaining the Increase in Extreme Poverty in Urban Brazil, (with Ricardo Paes de Barros), Chapter 4 in Bourguignon, Ferreira, and Lustig (eds.): The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America (Washington, DC; The World Bank and Oxford University Press) A Synthesis of the Results (with Bourguignon and Lustig), Chapter 1 in Bourguignon, Ferreira, and Lustig (eds.): The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America (Washington, DC; The World Bank and Oxford University Press) Educational Expansion and Income Distribution: A micro-simulation for Ceará (with Phillippe Leite), Ch. 11 in van der Hoeven and Shorrocks (eds.) Growth, Inequality and Poverty, (London, Oxford University Press), 2004.

6 Ex-ante Evaluation of Policy Reforms Using Behavioural Models (with François Bourguignon), Ch. 6 in Bourguignon, F. and L. Pereira da Silva (eds.) The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution, (New York, Oxford University Press), "Desigualdade, Pobreza e Bem-Estar Social no Brasil: " (with Julie A. Litchfield), Ch. 2 in Henriques (ed.) Desigualdade e Pobreza no Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, IPEA) "Os Determinantes da Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil: Luta de Classes ou Heterogeneidade Educacional", Ch.5 in Henriques (ed.) Desigualdade e Pobreza no Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, IPEA) The World Bank and Structural Adjustment: Lessons from the 1980s (with Louise Keely), Ch.6 in Gilbert and Vines (eds.) The World Bank: Structure and Policies, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) Educacion o Inflacion?: Explicando la Desigualdad en Brasil en la Decada de los Ochenta (with Julie A. Litchfield), Ch.4 in Cardenas and Lustig (eds.) Pobreza y Desigualdad en America Latina, (Bogota: Tercer Mundo Editores) Desigualdad y Pobreza en la Decada Perdida (with Julie Litchfield), Ch.9 in Bulmer-Thomas (ed.): El Nuevo Modelo Economico en America Latina, (Mexico City: El Trimestre Economico) "The World Bank as 'Intellectual Actor'" (with Nicholas Stern), Ch.12 in Kapur, Lewis and Webb (eds), The World Bank: Its First Half Century, Vol. 2, (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press) "Inequality and Poverty in the Lost Decade: Brazilian Income Distribution in the 1980s" (with Julie A. Litchfield), Ch. 10 in V. Bulmer-Thomas (ed.), The New Economic Model in Latin America and its Impact on Income Distribution and Poverty, (London: Macmillan) "The World Bank and the Analysis of the International Debt Crisis" (with B. Armendariz de Aghion), Chapter 13 in Harriss, J., J. Hunter and C. Lewis (eds): The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development, (London: Routledge) Other Papers Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Looking for a middle ground, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #5964 (February 2012) (with Maria Ana Lugo). "O Benefício Social Único: Uma Proposta de Reforma da Política Social no Brasil", Departamento de Economia, PUC-Rio, TD #443 (March 2001). (with José Márcio Camargo). Protecting the Poor from Macroeconomic Shocks: An Agenda for Action in a Crisis and Beyond, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #2160. (August 1999) (with Giovanna Prennushi and Martin Ravallion). "Roads to Equality: Wealth Distribution Dynamics with Public-Private Capital Complementarity", LSE STICERD Theoretical Economics DP No. 95/286 (April 1995). Comments and Book Reviews: Poverty is Multidimensional. But what are we going to do about it? A Comment. Journal of Economic Inequality, 9 (3): Review of Economic Policies at Cross-Purposes: The United States and Developing Countries, by Anne Krueger, in Economica, 61, No.242, May Review of Policy-Making in the Open Economy: Concepts and Case Studies in Economic Performance, by Rudiger Dornbusch, in Journal of Development Studies, 31 (1), October 1994.

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