Jose Cuesta, a Spanish national, holds a PhD in Economics from Oxford University. He is currently a Lead Economist at the World Bank. He has previously worked as a Senior Poverty Economist in the LAC, MENA and former anchor units of the World Bank. He was the Chief of Social and Economic Policy at the UNICEF Office of Research, Italy. He has co-directed the Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016: Taking on Inequality flagship report series and served as an affiliated professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and as an Assistant Professor of Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands. He also worked as a Research Economist and Social Sector Specialist for the Inter-American Development Bank and as an Economist for the UNDP in Honduras. Additionally he has participated in research and operational projects in a large number of countries in Asia, Africa, Central and South America spanning diverse themes in the social policy field, including poverty, inequality, fiscal policies/incidence analysis, food security, social protection, exclusion and citizen security/conflict.
Featured Publications
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Ongoing Work
“COVID-19 Gendered Impacts on Poverty and Equity in Colombia”, with J. Pico
“Equity Dimensions of Jobs for Economic Transformation in Colombia: Global Value Chains (GVCs) in Context of the COVID-19 Crisis”, with M. Kluger
“Equity Considerations of Cadasters in Colombia”, with J. Pico
“No Two Genocides Are Alike: The Long-term Well-being of Survivors of the Cambodian and Rwandan Genocides”, with A.M. Milazzo
“Children in Conflict contexts: Understanding Multidimensional Child Poverty in East Mosul”, with M. Biggeri and L. Ferrone
“Protests and Government Responses: Lessons from the 2018 Nicaragua Crisis”, with G. Klein and C. Chagalj
“Towards an Integrated Framework for Child Poverty: Reconciling Theories and Indicators”, with M. Biggeri
“Urban Cash Transfers, Universalism, and Poverty in Ghana”, with M. Danquah
“Do Border Policies Restrict Flows of Venezuelan Migrants?,” with C. Chagalj
“Intergenerational Transmission of Nutritional Deprivations in Guatemala”, with P. Ballon
Professional Experience
Skills
Management
Operations
Reserch
Fundraising
Policy dialogue
Advocacy
Media communications
Interests
Development
Poverty, Inequality
Social policies
Conflict and citizen security
Food security
Child wellbeing
Humanitarian crises
Analytics of public policy
Country Work Experience
Algeria, Argentina, Belarus, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Equador, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Liberia, Morocco, Panama, Paraguay Peru, Philippines, Suriname, Uganda, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, R.B. Venezuela, Zambia.