Shanta Devarajan
@Shanta_WB
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Shanta Devarajan is a Professor of the Practice of Development at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Washington, DC
Joined March 2011
RT @NCdeMel: The innovation of a Governance-Linked Bond #GLB in Sri Lanka — introduced by @VeriteResearch — and the governance focused enga…
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RT @LFLopezCalva: It was a pleasure to host the Global Development Network (@GDNint) Board Meeting, chaired by @Shanta_WB, here at the @Wor…
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@karthik_econ @crossword_book @PenguinIndia @karthik_venk @UCSDEcon @UCSanDiego @shailichopra @warikoo Congratulations, Karthik. Well-deserved.
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RT @Kevin_Carey_WB: Sri Lanka debt exchange. As long discussed, will include a governance-linked bond as well as the macro-linked bond: "Th…
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RT @AlsoswaAmat: Pleased to have shared the platform with the distinguished panelists. Special thanks to @Shanta_WB @Georgetown’s @GUMENAFo…
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RT @ryancbriggs: Many chapters in the Handbook of Aid and Development are free for the next month. I think these are great teaching resourc…
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RT @MSWinters1: My @ElgarPublishing Handbook of Aid and Development chapter on "Recipient Governments and Aid Flows" is available for FREE…
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The government policies and financing from IFIs since 2022 are aimed at restoring macroeconomic stability so Sri Lanka can resume economic growth.
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RT @Elgar_Politics: 📢 Handbook of Aid and Development Edited by Raj M. Desai (@georgetownsfs), Shantayanan Devarajan (@Shanta_WB) and Jen…
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@ZiadMDaoud Great. Question is whether we can get MENA governments to adopt this. For a case where it may be in their interest, see
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The tension between giving aid and curbing corruption was exacerbated during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to new ways of balancing the two, David-Barrett and d'Emidio argue in their chapter in the Handbook of Aid and Development @Elgar_Politics
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Despite aid dependence, African countries have maintained policy autonomy because of multiple motivations for aid and domestic politics in donor countries, argues @kopalo in his chapter in the Handbook on Aid and Development
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Aid to Africa demonstrates hysteresis and possibly addiction, @CelestinMonga and Bouba Housseni show in their chapter in the Handbook of Aid and Development @Elgar_Politics
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India’s budget increased by $5 billion/year to hire more teachers; monitoring teachers to reduce absenteeism would be 10x more cost-effective.
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In India, the fiscal cost of teacher absenteeism is about $1.5 billion/year @karthik_econ
I'm curious whether ghost workers, ghost schools, etc. amount to macro-relevant $ sums or (perhaps just as important) are more of a political obstacle to increasing tax morale and garnering public support for other fiscal reforms. 2/2
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@KhoaVuUmn This piece on India’s idiosyncratic growth path may be useful @arvindsubraman @RaghuramRajan6 @KalpanaKochhar
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