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At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd The World Bank Group supports developing countries in building stable, resilient, inclusive, and competitive markets. Its work on private sector development combines analytical expertise, operational engagement, and policy dialogue to foster productivity, innovation, and sustainable, private sector–led growth. The Competition unit (WKPTC), part of the Trade, Competition and Business (TCB) Global Department, brings together microeconomists, industry specialists, and development practitioners. The team analyzes market structure, firm behavior, and technology adoption to identify and remove distortions that constrain competition, innovation, inclusion, and productivity growth. It provides evidence-based advice on competition policy, product market regulation, digital markets, innovation and technology adoption, and non-distortive industrial and sectoral development policies, including global value chains. The unit also assesses how technological disruption and emerging market structures, such as digital platforms, affect firms, consumers, and policy. It delivers this mandate through original research, lending and technical assistance, and partnerships with multilateral institutions, bilateral partners, and donors. The Competition unit’s responsibilities include the following: • Provide intellectual leadership on issues and policies to support competitive markets, competition, SOEs and private sector, value chains, innovation, technology adoption and firm upgrading, as well as effective sectoral development policies • Support client countries by delivering lending operations and technical assistance projects in the WKPTC areas of expertise, in collaboration with FCI and other World Bank Group’s regional units. • Create global knowledge on frontier topics in the field of innovation and technology. • Facilitate knowledge diffusion and adoption of good practices in areas of expertise through policy dialogue, analytical and advisory work, including leading the design and implementation of empirical quantitative structural IO assessments and impact evaluations with a focus on randomized controlled trials (RCTs); • Support World Bank Group senior management through briefings, guidance notes, and other inputs to inform and shape the WBG institutional strategy on WKPTC areas of expertise. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The objective of this position is to strengthen the unit’s analytical and operational work on firm innovation, technology adoption, quality upgrading, and creative industries. The Economist will contribute to research, policy dialogue, project preparation, and impact evaluations, translating rigorous analysis into practical recommendations for client countries. The selected Economist specialized in applied microeconomics and quantitative methods and may be based in Washington, DC, or another agreed location. The Economist will join the WKPTC team and work within the innovation and creative industries pillar alongside economists and private sector development specialists. The position will report to the Practice Manager of the WKPTC unit. The successful candidate will be a motivated and collaborative professional with strong applied microeconomic and analytical skills. The candidate should have policy-relevant experience, expertise in firm-level surveys, innovation, and applied research, and the ability to engage effectively with clients. The role requires close collaboration with colleagues across the WKPTC unit and with global and regional teams. The key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Applied research and impact evaluations • Support the development and dissemination of analytical frameworks and approaches on innovation, technology adoption, quality upgrading, and creative industries, in collaboration with WKPTC colleagues and global and regional teams across FCI. • Conduct descriptive, statistical, and econometric analysis using appropriate advanced quantitative techniques, and clearly document methods, assumptions, and results for analytical and operational products. • Prepare survey and administrative datasets for analysis, including data cleaning, validation, documentation, organization, and reproducible processing. • Contribute analytical inputs, literature reviews, data analysis, drafting, and quality assurance for policy reports, working papers, and flagship publications. • Work with senior team members to translate analytical findings into operationally relevant diagnostics, policy recommendations, project components, and client-facing knowledge products. • Support the design and implementation of impact evaluations and coordinate effectively among impact evaluation teams, project teams, government counterparts, and local partners. • Provide technical guidance to World Bank Group project teams on strengthening monitoring and evaluation frameworks, including results chains, indicators, data-collection plans, and learning arrangements. • Prepare and present research findings, policy implications, and recommendations to policymakers, clients, and other stakeholders in developing countries. • Contribute analytical inputs, technical notes, project documentation, and implementation support for lending operations and technical assistance engagements.