Graham Pyatt

Graham Pyatt has worked with various international organizations over the past 30 years. He was a Research Adviser to the International Labor Organization (ILO) World Employment Program in the course of which he was a macroeconomics co-ordinator for country studies in Sri Lanka and Iran. As a Senior Adviser in the Development Research Center, World Bank he initiated the Living Standards Measurement Study (in collaboration with Ramesh Chander); managed major research projects in Malaysia, Thailand (he helped launch the TDI) and the Republic of Korea; and had overview responsibilities for all World Bank research on income distribution and macro-economic modeling. At UNDP he was the main author of the Human Development Report for Pakistan (1993) and an Adviser in Bangladesh and South Africa. He has published extensively on National Income/ Social Accounting problems, Modeling and Income Distribution / Poverty Analysis. His recent work includes a critical review on behalf of donors of the first 25 World Bank Poverty Assessments for countries in sub-Saharan Africa and a volume of essays "Identifying the Poor" (edited jointly with Michael Ward) on behalf of the International Statistical Institute.

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