Gustavo Arcia
Gustavo Arcia, Ph.D. specializes in education finance, education reform, system accountability, and the quantitative analysis of basic education. In Latin America he analyzed school autonomy and the links between education finance and household poverty, as well as in-depth analyses of education finance issues, including financial equity and the incidence of public expenditures in education. He has worked in more than 20 countries in Central Asia, East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North and Sub Saharan Africa. As a consultant he works for the World Bank, the Inter American Development Bank, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, UNICEF, and national governments. He is a co-author of the World Bank’s book "Assessing Sector Performance & Inequality in Education", as well as numerous reports on financial analysis and accountability in education. Before becoming a consultant he was a Senior Economist at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. He holds a PhD in Applied Econometrics from the University of Missouri-Columbia, BS and MS degrees in Food and Resources Economics from the University of Florida, and an Agronomist degree from the Pan-American School of Agricultural at El Zamorano, Honduras.
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