Economist (Tax Policy) - Washington, United States - IFC Systems Corporation

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Economist (Tax Policy)

Job #:

- req27370
Organization:

World Bank
Sector:
Economics
Grade:
GF
Term Duration:
4 years 0 months
Recruitment Type:
International Recruitment
Location:
Washington, DC,United States
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
French (Desired)
Closing Date:
5/24/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description

The Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Practice Group (EFI) is one of the World Bank Group's four Practice Groups.

EFI's mandate is "Growth, Finance, and Institutions for all." Our approach is to leverage public and private sector expertise, together with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), to support a data-driven reform agenda.

EFI supports clients in advancing evidence-based structural reforms to build the foundations for inclusive and sustainable growth.

EFI is composed of four Global Practices (GPs), and CGAP:

The Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment (MTI) GP provides broad macroeconomic analysis in support of countries' economic programs, including the analysis of macro-financial risks, and macroeconomic modelling services to the rest of the WBG. MTI supports sound fiscal frameworks and fiscal risk management as well as better institutions and capacity on debt management to improve efficiency of public spending and bolster macroeconomic stability.
The Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation (FCI) GP, consisting of two directorates (the Finance directorate, and the Trade, Investment and Competitiveness (TIC) directorate) aims to support client countries to create an enabling environment in which financial stability, efficiency and firmlevel solutions are provided in an integrated way to crowd in the private sector, support the creation of markets, and accelerate equitable growth.
The Governance GP (GOV) helps countries build capable, effective, accountable, transparent, and inclusive institutions that deliver citizencentric services, facilitate privatesector growth, and build trust in government; and provides fiduciary support to all Bank operations.
The Poverty and Equity GP (POV) consists of micro, labor, and development economists to build the evidence base, provide advice and operational support to ensure country policies and WBG interventions are inclusive.
CGAP is a global partnership of more than 30 leading development organizations that works to advance the lives of poor people through financial inclusion.

MTI brings together about 530 professionals working across more than 100 countries.

The Global Practice houses the Bank's country economists and professional staff with expertise in macroeconomics, fiscal policy, growth, and statistics.

About fifty percent of MTI professional staff are decentralized to the field, working very closely with the Country Management Units (CMUs) and directly with clients.

MTI is responsible for delivering timely policy advice to support the following lines of work:
(i) designing macro-fiscal frameworks that are aligned with the goals of reducing extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity, as well as being grounded in economic, social and environmental sustainability; (ii) supporting fiscal and debt policy sustainability; (iii) generating growth analytics and policy recommendations to sustain and boost growth; and (iv) analyzing the impact of external shocks and climate change risks on growth and the government fiscal position. MTI professionals are responsible for the preparation and delivery of Development Policy Operations using both IDA and IBRD resources, and lead or participate in the preparation of Advisory Services and Analytics, Technical Assistance and integrative outputs such as Strategic Country Diagnostics, Country Economic Memorandums and cross-sector Public Finance Reviews. Important additional engagements in macroeconomic and fiscal policies are carried out through work on debt management (including through the Debt Management Facility) and work on macro-fiscal climate issues (including in support of the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action).

Knowledge and learning is a central part of MTI with work focused on 5 thematic areas:
(a) macroeconomics; (b) fiscal policy; (c) growth; (d) economic management in resource-rich environments; and (e) statistics.

Within MTI, the Fiscal Policy, and Sustainable Growth Unit (EMFTX) provides effective support for World Bank Group operations to strengthen countries' efforts in using tax and expenditure policy, the management of fiscal risks and fiscal planning for boosting equitable growth and underpinning macroeconomic stability.

As a Global Unit, EMFTX provides technical advice, support and thought leadership on these issues to the wider GP's operational work in the Regions.

The fiscal policy work covers overall fiscal policy design, public expenditure polices, and domestic revenue mobilization

This work includes: