Omar Arias
Deputy Chief Economist, East Asia and Pacific, World Bank
- Role
- Deputy Chief Economist at The World Bank Group
- Location
- Washington, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Omar Arias
Over 25 years of experience in social and development policy and research. Co-author of various regional policy research reports on jobs in Asia (\"Future Jobs: Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Platforms in East Asia and Pacific\"), Eastern Europe (\"Back to Work: Growing with Jobs in Europe and Central Asia\") and Latin America (\"Informality: Exit and Exclusion\"); human capital (\"The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa\";\"Making Teacher Policy Work\"), pensions (“The Inverting Pyramid: Pension Systems Facing Demographic Challenges in Europe and Central Asia”); and inclusive economic growth (\"Poverty Reduction and Growth: Virtuous and Vicious Circles”); as well as policy research reports on returns to skills and labor markets in various countries. He has peer-reviewed publications in various topics, including automation and jobs, returns to schooling and skills, labor markets, income mobility, growth, poverty and inequality, human capital accumulation, tax evasion, and applied econometrics.He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, obtaining a master\'s degree and doctorate in economics.
Experience
Deputy Chief Economist
Oct 2023 — Present · Washington, DC, US
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics
1995 — 1998
Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo
Bachelor's degree, Economics
1988 — 1991
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