Low and middle-income countries are home to about 80% of the people in the world exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution, with its numerous deleterious effects, including disease and mortality and diminished cognitive performance, labor supply and productivity. Yet those countries often lack the resources to accurately measure air pollution and determine how policies might … [Read more...] about Measuring Air Quality Better in Developing Countries
Sveta Milusheva
Sveta Milusheva is a Senior Economist in the Development Impact Department at the World Bank. She leads the ieConnect for Impact program which has enabled the evaluation of over $5.7 billion in transport investment projects across 18 countries. Her research interests include infrastructure and information and communication technologies, population mobility, health, and gender. In particular, her work focuses on the application of new big data sources, such as mobile phone data and crowdsourced data, to study questions in development and to evaluate the impact of development interventions. She received her PhD and MA in Economics from Brown University and her BA in Economics and International Studies from Emory University.