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UNHCR Economist<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Rakesh Gupta Nichanametla Ramasubbaiah is a Senior Development Officer with UNHCR, working for the Mauritania Operation. He has also been a Policy Officer in Geneva and an Economist in Kigali with UNHCR. Previously, he worked at the World Bank\u2019s Development Research Group and Poverty Global Practice, where he spent five years focusing on welfare measurements, intergenerational economic mobility, forced displacement, distributional impacts and labor economics. Prior to his time in Washington, D.C., he was a UNICEF Research Fellow in Uganda, and contributed to policies and strategies on access to services, social sectors budgeting and public spending efficiency. Earlier work included assignments with the World Bank, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNESCAP, OECD and IPA. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universit\u00e9 Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne, a Master\u2019s degree in Quantitative Economics from Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure (ENS-Ulm) and Paris School of Economics, and a Master in Applied Mathematics from Universit\u00e9 Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne. He speaks six languages and has lived in nine different countries.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#f4f4f4″ custom_padding=”42px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Understanding the new Malian refugees in Mauritania: a path forward amid growing challenges<\/a><\/p>\nBlog posts by Rakesh<\/h2>\n