Specialists - Development Economics - Private Sector Development at World Bank

The Development Economics Group (DEC) increases understanding of development policies and programs by providing intellectual leadership and analytical services to the World Bank and the wider development community. DEC is the premier research and data arm of the World Bank Group.

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Private Sector Development, DECIG

DECIG is the unit in the Bank’s research organization that has built the Doing Business project. The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 189 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. By gathering and analyzing comprehensive quantitative data to compare business regulation environments across economies and over time, Doing Business encourages economies to compete towards more efficient regulation, thus driving growth and enabling shared prosperity and decreasing poverty.

The Private Sector Development Specialist: should have a PhD, or a Master’s degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience and will work on the following activities:

• Administering surveys to local experts, verifying survey responses, data entry, undertake data coding, and conducting policy analysis of the data.
• Develop and maintain internal and external networks of stakeholders in the subject matter and related regulatory policy.
• Participate in relevant policy research and dialogue activities to stay abreast of and contribute to the business climate field.
• Contribute to overall project development and strategy, supporting the Program Manager in project design, project management, and donor relations as necessary.
• Write and substantively review content of reports and related presentations.
• Develop and disseminate other knowledge management tools to support the product, including case studies, smart lessons, or issue notes.
• Participate in dissemination activities including presentations to governments, donor agencies, private sector organizations, as well as communicating with the media.

The Operations Analyst: should have a Master’s degree and some relevant experience to work on the following activities:

• Be responsible for maintaining a specific set of indicators - including administering surveys to local experts, data entry, and coding under the supervision of the topic leader.
• Analyze and assess indicators on a country by country basis - including verifying survey responses with primary data sources and publicly available information, checking survey responses against each other, and following up with survey respondents until a final, verified country file is produced.
• Be responsible for preparation of comparative analysis related to the set of indicators on a country by country and regional basis under the supervision of the topic leader.
• Maintain effective links with local external partners, leading new local partners’ recruitment through web search, World Bank Group country offices, embassies, and other creative sources to obtain the information needed for Doing Business report and dataset.
• Substantively contribute to writing the Doing Business chapters, case studies, smart lessons and related presentations under the guidance and supervision of the topic leader.