News: The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), the World Bank and University of Economics and Business, Viet Nam National University (UEB) are organizing a special IARIW-WB-UEB conference on the importance of data generation and analysis in data-scarce contexts and policy implications for the Asia region in Hanoi, Vietnam on October 2- 3, 2025. The preliminary conference program can be found here. Conference registration link is here. There are also pre-conference training sessions on global poverty and inequality and social mobility on October 1, 2025. More information is found here.
Hai-Anh H. Dang is a Senior Economist in the Data Analytics Unit, Development Data Group, World Bank. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in various leading journals, including Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Lancet Psychiatry, and Scientific Data, and chapters with books published by esteemed publishers such as Cambridge and Oxford University Presses. His research focuses on international development, poverty, inequality, climate change, and data imputation methods. He has contributed to advancing poverty estimation techniques in contexts where household consumption data are incomplete or missing. He has played a key role in the development of the World Bank’s Statistical Performance Indicators and Index (SPI), the institution’s official tool for assessing national statistical capacity. His paper on gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic is among the most cited papers on this topic.
His research has received wide dissemination and media coverage, including features in the Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Policy, the Telegraph, Center for Global Development blog, and other local news. He has contributed to more than 70 World Bank's projects and flagship reports covering different countries. According to RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), one of the world’s largest databases for economic research, Dr. Dang is ranked among the top 5% of economists overall (and within the top 2% over the past decade). His research has received funding support from World Bank's research grants and other funding agencies, including the U.K.'s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, the former U.S.'s Agency for International Development, and Asian Development Bank.
He has held visiting and senior fellowships at several prominent institutions, including IZA (Institute of Labor Economics, Germany), the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Beijing Normal University (China), Singapore Management University (Singapore), and Monash University (Australia). He has delivered graduate-level lectures on international development at Georgetown University and Indiana University. He currently serves as an associate editor of Journal of Economic Surveys, a former co-editor of Review of Development Economics, and on the editorial boards of several other journals, including Economic Change and Structuring, International Journal of Education Development, Journal of Economics and Development, and Review of Income and Wealth. In addition to his academic and editorial contributions, Dr. Dang has led policy dialogues and delivered technical training to senior government officials on poverty, inequality, education, economic restructuring, and impact evaluation. He received his B.A. in International Economics from Foreign Trade University (Hanoi, Vietnam) and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (USA).
My other sites
Scholar Google: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VkR4l0sAAAAJ&hl=en
REPEC: http://ideas.repec.org/f/pda280.html
SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=734433
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hai_Anh_Dang
IZA: https://www.iza.org/de/person/3376/hai-anh-dang