Stuti Khemani

Stuti Khemani is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Her area of research is the political economy of public policy choices, and institutional reforms for development. Her work is published in economics and political science journals, such as the American Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics and American Political Science Review. She is the lead author of the reports Making Politics Work for Development: Harnessing Transparency and Citizen Engagement; and, The Economics of Water Scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa: Institutional Solutions. Her research and advisory work span a diverse range of topics and countries, applying incentives theory to the role of government in solving economic problems across different institutional contexts. One of her current projects focuses on how local government institutions might overcome political obstacles to electrifying Africa’s economic transformation. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.