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R. Andrés Castañeda Aguilar Senior Economist / Data Scientist The World Bank

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Biography

I am an Economist/data scientist in the Data Group of the Department of Development Economics at the World Bank. During the last ten years, I have been working on socioeconomic analysis in topics related to poverty, welfare distribution, inequality of opportunities, development economics, and conflict economics.

In particular, I am interested in the analysis of data for policy dialog; statistical and methodological research; and the development of computational tools in Stata and R to make socioeconomic analysis intuitive, easier, and faster. I have contributed to build analytical portals like the LAC Equity Lab or interactive guidelines like the South Asia Region MicroData user manual. Currently, I am part of the PovcalNet team.

Interests

  • Development Economics
  • Socioeconomic measurement
  • Poverty and inequality analysis
  • Developing tools in R and Stata

Education

M.A. in Apologetics (2019) Biola University

M.Sc. in Economics (2010) Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

B.Sc. in Economics (2009) Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

B.Sc. in Finance and International Trade (2012) Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia