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I am a PhD economist working in the World Bank’s Prospects Group. 

Research Interests: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, International Economics, Financial Economics, Mathematical and Quantitative Methods.

All views are my own. 

** RECENT PUBLICATIONS **

• "Post-Pandemic Commodity Cycles: A New Era?". From April 2025 Commodity Markets Outlook, World Bank (2025).
  Featured in The Economist

• "From Tailwinds to Headwinds: Emerging and Developing Economies in the 21st Century" Policy Research Working Paper, Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2025).

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E-mail: mbalatti@worldbank.org

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