World Bank Tokyo Morning Seminar #125 “South Asia Economic Focus (SAEF) – Shifting Gears: Digitalization and Service-Led Development”

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• South Asia's recovery continues as global demand rebounded and targeted containment measures helped minimize the economic impacts of the recent waves of COVID-19. But the recovery remains fragile and uneven, and most countries are far from pre-pandemic trend levels, says the World Bank in its twice-yearly regional update.

  The latest South Asia Economic Focus titled Shifting Gears: Digitization and Services-Led Development rojects the region to grow by 7.1 percent in 2021 and 2022. While the year-on-year growth remains strong in the region, albeit from a very low base in 2020, the recovery has been uneven across countries and sectors. South Asia's average annual growth is forecast to be 3.4 percent over 2020-23, which is 3 percentage points less than it was in the four years preceding the pandemic.

  Date/Time:

  8am-9am, October 29, 2021 (Japan Standard Time)

  URL for livestreaming:

  https://youtu.be/pfyivV5IXaw

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  Speakers Zoe Leiyu Xie
  Senior Economist, Office of the Chief Economist for South Asia Region, World Bank

  Zoe Leiyu Xie is a Senior Economist at the Chief Economist Office for South Asia, where she works on the South Asia Economic Focus and contributes to analytical works on the region's macroeconomy. Before joining the World Bank in 2021, she spent four years as a Research Economist and Assistant Adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota and BA in Economics and Mathematics from Williams College. She has published papers in peer reviewed journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics and European Economic Review.

  Valerie Anne Mercer Blackman
  Senior Economist, Office of the Chief Economist for South Asia Region, World Bank

  Valerie Mercer-Blackman is a Senior Economist at the South Asia Office of the Chief Economist, currently focusing on policy-based research and regional trends in South Asia. Her recent published research focuses on diversification, trade FDI productivity in services and global value chains. Her past analytical work includes growth drivers, investment and fiscal issues in developing countries, particularly commodity exporters. Previously she worked as a macroeconomist at the Asian Development Bank; at the Caribbean Department of the Inter-American Development Bank and on Latin America at the International Monetary Fund. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.

  Siddharth Sharma
  Senior Economist, Office of the Chief Economist for South Asia Region, World Bank

  Siddharth Sharma is a Senior Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for South Asia at the World Bank. He specializes in the micro economic analysis of firms and labor markets. Since joining the World Bank as Young Professional in 2010, Siddharth has worked on a range of analytical and operational projects in support of productivity and job growth in Africa, Europe and Central Asia, and South Asia. His research has been published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and he has also contributed chapters to several World Bank policy reports, including the 2017 World Development Report on "Governance and the Law". Siddharth has a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.

  Presentation material:

  Shifting Gears: Digitalization and Service-Led Development (PDF)

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