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I am an economist currently working for the Department for Private  Sector Development - Africa Region at the World Bank and previously worked for the Development Research Group. My research interests focus on how firms in developing countries respond to the challenges and opportunities of globalisation, technology adoption, innovation, energy efficiency as well as price transmission, pass-through and price dynamics.

I've completed my PhD at  University of Sussex, and previously I was at Bocconi University in Milan and Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires.

My PhD thesis focused on the "Analysis of the Firm-Level Impact of NAFTA in Mexico" and I was supervised by  Alan Winters from  Department of Economics,  Sherman Robinson from the Department of Economics and IDS, and Gustavo Crespi previously at SPRU and currently at IDRC.

In the past I have been awarded an ODI Fellowship and have been working as economic advisor for the Unit of Private Sector Development of the Ministry of Agriculture of Mozambique where I was involved in research and advisory work on agribusiness promotion, finance, export and FDI promotion, trade negotiations.

I have also been working as consultant and advisor for various international organisations, namely WB, WTO, USAID, EC, UNIDO, UNDP, DfID in both Africa (South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana) and Latin America (Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru).