Otaviano Canuto is Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, a division of more than 700 economists and other professionals working on economic policy, poverty reduction, and analytic work for the World Bank’s client countries. He took up his position on May 4, 2009, after serving as the Vice President for Countries at the Inter-American Development Bank since June 2007.
Dr. Canuto provides strategic leadership and direction to Regional PREM units as well as groups working on economic policy formulation in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public sector management and governance. He is also involved in managing the Bank’s overall interactions with key partner institutions including the IMF, the OECD and regional development banks.
Dr. Canuto was Executive Director at the Board of the World Bank in 2004-2007. He also served in the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, where he was Secretary for International Affairs. He was Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo and University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil.
Recent Blog Posts by Otaviano Canuto
- Connected to Compete? Not as Much as We Could Be
- The Doha Round: Much More than Market Access
- Food Prices and the Seven Billionth Baby
- Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
- Credit Ratings Matter for Those Who Need Them Most
- South-South Trade Is the Answer
- The Day After Tomorrow: A Different Kind of Trade
- The Day After Tomorrow: Commodities and Uncomfortable Natural Riches
- The Day After Tomorrow: Macro-Financial Policy Catches Up with Reality
- Asset Price Overshooting in Developing Countries
- The Day After Tomorrow: If You Want to Grow, Learn
- The Day After Tomorrow: Will We Ever Trust the State?
- The Day After Tomorrow: The Final Battle in the War Against Poverty
- The Day After Tomorrow: Fiscal Quality
- The Day After Tomorrow: Growth Switchover
- Recoupling or Switchover
- Paul Collier and His Plundering Planet: When Both Economists and Environmentalists Don’t Get It Right
- My Own View on Women
- Stiglitz’s New Book and the Developing Countries
- Don’t Blame Mother Nature
- The Doha Trade Round is Worth Fighting For
- The Arrival of Asset Prices in Monetary Policy
- Vulnerability, Exchange Rate and International Reserves: Whither Brazil?
- Decoupling, Reverse Coupling and All That Jazz
- The Developing World in a Post-Bubble Economy
- Trade finance, banking introspection and emerging economies
- Emerging Markets and the Systemic Sudden Stop
- Late Securitization and Micro-insurance
- Food and Oil Price Shocks and Latin America and the Caribbean
- Oil Intensity and Energy Efficiency in Latin America
- Asymmetric Climate Change
- Three Tiers of Commodity Price Drivers
- Global Agflation, Energy Security and Bio-fuels
- China as a Bulwark and a Raging Bull
- It’s physical: that’s the way to integrate in South America
- Whither Debt-to-GDP in Brazil
- Capital Flows to Brazil as a Moving Contradiction
- The Base of the Latin American Pyramid
- Energy hedging is a must in Brazil… as elsewhere in the region
- Latin America and the Global Financial Turmoil
- Securitization in Latin America: advantages of latecomers
- Repricing of Latin American Risks
- Electricity and macroeconomics in Brazil: the end of the golden age
- The Misery of the “Dutch Disease and Deindustrialization” Argument
- Brazil is not underperforming
- Straitjackets on Brazilian Sub-National Finance
- Greenspan in the mirror: risk management in Brazil’s monetary policy
- Investment Climate and Microeconomic Reforms
