Klaus Deininger

Klaus Deininger is a Lead Economist at the World Bank. His research focuses on income and asset inequality and its relationship to poverty reduction and growth; access to land, land markets and land reform and their impact on household welfare and agricultural productivity; land tenure and its impact on investment, including environmental sustainability for policy analysis and evaluation, mainly in the Africa, Central America, and East Asia Regions. He is a German national with a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota, an MA in Agricultural Economics from the University of Berlin.