Person: Araujo, Jorge Thompson
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Latin America, Caribbean, income distribution, economic growth, public finance
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Last updated: March 21, 2025
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Jorge Thompson Araujo is a senior collaborating researcher at the Department of Economics of the University of Brasilia, Brazil, and a senior consultant for the World Bank. Before his retirement from the World Bank in 2021, he was practice manager of the Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice for the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Previously, he was an associate professor of economics at the University of Brasilia. He has published widely in the areas of economic growth, functional distribution of income, and public finance. He co-authored the World Bank regional report Beyond Commodities: The Growth Challenge in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Latin America Development Forum series. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and an MSc in economics from the University of
Brasilia.