Otaviano Canuto is Senior Advisor on BRICS Economies in the Development Economics Department, World Bank, a new position established by President Kim to bring a fresh research focus to this increasingly critical area. He previously served as the Bank’s Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction Network (PREM), a division of more than 700 economists and other professionals working on economic policy, poverty reduction, gender equality and analytic work for client countries. He also served as an Executive Director of the Board of the World Bank from 2004-2007. Outside of the Bank he has held leadership positions at the Inter-American Development Bank where he was Vice President for Countries, and for the Government of Brazil where he was Secretary for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance. He also has an extensive academic background, serving as Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo and University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil.

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Recent Blog Posts by Otaviano Canuto

• Marrying Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation May 9th, 2013
• Growing After the Crisis: Boosting Productivity in Developing Countries April 30th, 2013
• Until Subnational Debt Do Us Part April 15th, 2013
• Trade: The World Is Not Flat Yet March 25th, 2013
• South Asia and the Geography of Poverty March 18th, 2013
• Gender Equality Pays Off in Brazil March 7th, 2013
• Climate Change: Get Ready to Adapt! February 27th, 2013
• Brazilian Competitiveness: Folia and Hangover February 12th, 2013
• Mobilizing Development Via Mobile Phones January 9th, 2013
• In Times of Consecutive Crises, Is Fiscal Policy the Answer? December 20th, 2012
• Where Rubber Hits the Road: Reforming Public-Sector Management December 10th, 2012
• The East Asian Miracle 2.0 November 26th, 2012
• It’s Jobs, Stupid! November 15th, 2012
• Revolutionary Services November 8th, 2012
• Can Non-State Service Delivery Undermine Governments? November 1st, 2012
• Shifting Tectonic Plates Under Global Banking October 24th, 2012
• Connecting Wagons: Why and How to Help Lagging Regions Catch Up October 18th, 2012
• Jobs as a Gateway to Prosperity October 11th, 2012
• Fiscal Policy for Shared Prosperity October 3rd, 2012
• Like a Hummingbird – From Chile to Mongolia October 1st, 2012
• Not All That Glitters Is Gold: GDP Per Capita as Yardstick for Living Standards September 19th, 2012
• Is Shadow Banking Dangerous for You? September 14th, 2012
• Goodbye Financial Engineers, Hello Political Wonks August 9th, 2012
• Trade and Climate Change: Handle with Care August 2nd, 2012
• Jobs as a Scorecard July 26th, 2012
• Facilitating Trade, Facilitating Development July 18th, 2012
• Is Europe as Unequal as the U.S.? July 10th, 2012
• Drugging Development June 29th, 2012
• Procrastination Is Costly, Action Is Priceless June 20th, 2012
• Bucking the Trend: Poverty Reduction and Inequality in Latin America June 6th, 2012
• Diamonds May Be Forever, Natural Resource Wealth Is Not May 30th, 2012
• Connected to Compete? Not as Much as We Could Be May 17th, 2012
• The Doha Round: Much More than Market Access November 11th, 2011
• Food Prices and the Seven Billionth Baby November 2nd, 2011
• Jobs, Jobs, Jobs October 19th, 2011
• Credit Ratings Matter for Those Who Need Them Most August 17th, 2011
• South-South Trade Is the Answer May 11th, 2011
• The Day After Tomorrow: A Different Kind of Trade May 4th, 2011
• The Day After Tomorrow: Commodities and Uncomfortable Natural Riches March 2nd, 2011
• The Day After Tomorrow: Macro-Financial Policy Catches Up with Reality January 25th, 2011
• Asset Price Overshooting in Developing Countries January 21st, 2011
• The Day After Tomorrow: If You Want to Grow, Learn January 5th, 2011
• The Day After Tomorrow: Will We Ever Trust the State? December 6th, 2010
• The Day After Tomorrow: The Final Battle in the War Against Poverty November 2nd, 2010
• The Day After Tomorrow: Fiscal Quality October 13th, 2010
• The Day After Tomorrow: Growth Switchover September 27th, 2010
• Recoupling or Switchover June 2nd, 2010
• Paul Collier and His Plundering Planet: When Both Economists and Environmentalists Don’t Get It Right May 10th, 2010
• My Own View on Women March 12th, 2010
• Stiglitz’s New Book and the Developing Countries February 2nd, 2010
• Don’t Blame Mother Nature January 12th, 2010
• The Doha Trade Round is Worth Fighting For December 1st, 2009
• The Arrival of Asset Prices in Monetary Policy October 20th, 2009
• Vulnerability, Exchange Rate and International Reserves: Whither Brazil? September 21st, 2009
• Decoupling, Reverse Coupling and All That Jazz September 2nd, 2009
• The Developing World in a Post-Bubble Economy April 9th, 2009
• Trade finance, banking introspection and emerging economies March 1st, 2009
• Emerging Markets and the Systemic Sudden Stop November 14th, 2008
• Late Securitization and Micro-insurance August 2nd, 2008
• Food and Oil Price Shocks and Latin America and the Caribbean June 29th, 2008
• Oil Intensity and Energy Efficiency in Latin America June 10th, 2008
• Asymmetric Climate Change May 25th, 2008
• Three Tiers of Commodity Price Drivers April 21st, 2008
• Global Agflation, Energy Security and Bio-fuels February 23rd, 2008
• China as a Bulwark and a Raging Bull February 4th, 2008
• It’s physical: that’s the way to integrate in South America January 7th, 2008
• Whither Debt-to-GDP in Brazil December 23rd, 2007
• Capital Flows to Brazil as a Moving Contradiction December 2nd, 2007
• The Base of the Latin American Pyramid November 19th, 2007
• Energy hedging is a must in Brazil… as elsewhere in the region November 4th, 2007
• Latin America and the Global Financial Turmoil October 14th, 2007
• Securitization in Latin America: advantages of latecomers October 1st, 2007
• Repricing of Latin American Risks August 9th, 2007
• Electricity and macroeconomics in Brazil: the end of the golden age July 29th, 2007
• The Misery of the “Dutch Disease and Deindustrialization” Argument July 22nd, 2007
• Brazil is not underperforming July 3rd, 2007
• Straitjackets on Brazilian Sub-National Finance June 10th, 2007
• Greenspan in the mirror: risk management in Brazil’s monetary policy May 28th, 2007
• Investment Climate and Microeconomic Reforms May 20th, 2007