Aart Kraay is an Economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. He joined the World Bank in 1995 after earning a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University (1995), and a B.Sc. in economics from the University of Toronto (1990). His research interests include international capital movements, growth and inequality, governance, and the Chinese economy. His research on these topics has been published in scholarly journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of the European Economic Association.
He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics, and is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He has also held visiting positions at the International Monetary Fund and the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
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Mobility and growth in top and bottom incomes
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- Development 
- Poverty and Income Inequality
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Growth, inequality, and social welfare: Cross-country evidence
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- Poverty and Income Inequality
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Growth still is good for the poor
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- Development