LEAP Workshop: Emanuela Galasso, World Bank

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Bocconi University, via Roentgen room 5.E4.SR04
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Workshop on Early Childhood Development

with Emanuela Galasso (World Bank)



PROGRAM:

13:45 - 15:15 Presentation and discussion: Nutrition and Early Childhood Development - Part I           
15:15 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:00 Part II
16.00 - 17:00 Career options for a development economist at the World Bank, Q&A Session


SPEAKER:

Emanuela Galasso is a Senior Economist in the Poverty Group of the Development Research Group. Since joining the Bank as a Young Economist in 2000, her research has covered issues related to decentralization and effectiveness of social protection programs and anti-poverty programs. Her on-going work currently focuses on the medium term and dynamic effects of anti-poverty programs using multi-year longitudinal surveys in Madagascar and Chile, with particular emphasis on their distributional impacts. She completed her MA and Ph.D. in Economics from Boston College in 2000.