E T Consultant

**E T Consultant**

**Job #**:

- req22085**Organization**:

- World Bank**Sector**:

- Economics**Grade**:

- EC1**Term Duration**:

- 1 year 0 months**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment**Location**:

- Brasilia,Brazil**Required Language(s)**:

- Portuguese and English**Preferred Language(s)**:
**Closing Date**:

- 4/17/2023 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC**Description**

The World Bank Group (WBG) twin goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity reflect a new global landscape: one in which developing countries have an unprecedented opportunity to end extreme poverty within a generation. Nonetheless, the progress that many countries had seen at the turn of the century came to a full stop -and even lost
- due to the global crises and ever-changing economic landscapes. The most recent global crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic had put enormous pressure on countries and governments, while making the elimination of poverty and boosting the income of the poorest a harder goal to reach. To protect the vulnerable and regain the pace of sustainable economic growth, clients will need to address several critical development challenges.

Brazil presents a case of interest in the Latin American context. After seeing historical drops in poverty and inequality between 2000-2012, poverty and inequality progress was halted by the economic crisis of 2014/19. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed Brazil to unprecedented social and economic challenges. However, the enormous fiscal package (where one of the components was the emergency cash transfer Auxilio Emergencial) allowed poverty and inequality to decrease significantly in 2020. Still, the continued precariousness of the jobs available - even in a context of labor market recovery
- made poverty rate estimates to suggest a significant deterioration of households’ welfare in 2021.

In 2019, close to 20 percent of the Brazilian population was estimated to live in poverty (defined as earning less than US$6.85 per day per capita, 2017 PPP). After the drop in 2020, poverty rates bounced back to above pre-pandemic levels in 2021 (28.4), responding to the major changes in the social protection system and the weak labor market dynamics. As economic recovery continues and the labor market strengthens, poverty may go back to a declining trend, though it is uncertain how much dependent vulnerable households will be on government transfers.

Poverty and Equity Global Practice

The Poverty & Equity Global Practice is a family of empirical micro-economists with deep expertise in household surveys and poverty measurement, and broad experience in using household and other "micro" data to inform the design and implementation of policies and programs to reduce poverty and enhance shared prosperity.

We work with government and external partners, at the country-level and globally, in ensuring their efforts to eliminate extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity are enhanced by integrative empirically-grounded analyses of household welfare. Internally, we work with country, regional and global teams across all practices to operationalize the twin goals of the WBG by providing robust evidence base and analytics using micro data.

The Poverty and Equity Global Practice delivers the following to our clients in support of these critical development challenges:
Advice and knowledge to help better understand the relationship between growth, poverty, and inequality.

Diagnostics to help identify key policies and multi sectoral solutions that effectively reduce poverty and benefit the less well-off.

Monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs to enhance the poverty impact of interventions and inform mid-stream correction.

Monitoring and tracking poverty and other welfare outcomes.

Capacity-building and knowledge sharing (in client countries and within the WBG) of distributional impacts analytics.

Innovative data collection and measurement methods that can help fill crucial data gaps.

**Scope of Work**

The Poverty and Equity Global Practice in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region is seeking to hire an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) to contribute to its analytical and operational programs in the LC5 Task Team (Brazil). The consultant will participate as a core member of the Poverty team, responsible for providing:

- Support the implementation, update and maintenance of microsimulation tools to obtain poverty projections, and the likely distributional impact of policy changes, especially those related to fiscal and social policies.
- Conduct data management and data analysis. Analyses should consider alternative methodologies and pursue the most suitable empirical methods and data sources.

Produce literature reviews.
- Conduct analysis using harmonized databases and World Bank datasets and tools, such as data libweb, WB-SEDLAC, LABLAC, LEL, among others.
- Support dissemination of findings of analytical work under different formats: research papers, policy n