Shanta Devarajan, the World Bank's chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), discusses political turmoil and economics in the region at a news conference during the IMF and World ...

Shanta Devarajan ’75, the chief economist of the World Bank’s Africa Region, spoke on the importance of service as the keynote speaker for the annual “Reflections on Service” event on Sept. 13. The ...

The Walsh School of Foreign Service’s Asian Studies department hosted an interdisciplinary panel to discuss the ongoing political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka. The Oct. 5 panel, entitled “The ...

Shanta Devarajan is a professor of the practice of international development at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He was previously at the World Bank, where he was the ...

The World Bank Africa region has announced the launch of a new blog from its chief economist, Shanta Devarajan. The blog, AfricaCan.org, will serve as an online forum for the sharing of ideas about ...

Nearly nine in 10 Syrian refugees living in Jordan are either poor or expected to be, according to a joint report from the World Bank Group and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ...

In this edited transcript of a wide-ranging interview with The Africa Report, World Bank chief economist for Africa Shanta Devarajan talks about the legacy of structural adjustment programmes and ...

* World Bank economist says London G20 failed to help Africa * Next G20 meeting should be labelled "development summit" * Africa could be hardest hit by global recession By Peter Griffiths LONDON, May ...