Evia Salas, Pablo Ernesto

Pablo Ernesto Evia Salas is a Research Fellow at EfD Central America. He is a Development Economist from the Bolivian Catholic University and holds two master's degrees. One in policy economics from Williams College, in the United States, and a second master's degree in public policy, from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, in Argentina. In addition, he holds a Doctoral Degree in Agricultural Economics from Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF), located in Bonn, Germany. He worked as an Economist and Senior Risk Analyst in public sector institutions in Bolivia. In the academic field, he was an invited instructor at the University of Bonn and the Bolivian Catholic University

Research interests

His main research interest lies in the field of poverty and inequality, and climate change. 

Mentoring

Pablo has been a lecturer in different academic institutions located in the United States, Bolivia, Germany, and Costa Rica. His teaching experience has included subjects such as public finance, econometrics, macroeconomics, economic growth, principles of economics, and effects of climate change on human health.

He is currently supervising two M.Sc students as a secondary supervisor. 

Grants and consultancy

He has extensive experience in consultancies with the World Bank (WB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and United Nations (UN) institutions like UN-Habitat and the International Labour Organization (ILO), working on topics such as migration, conditional and unconditional transfers, and informality. 

He also received grants to pursue his studies in Argentina, the United States, and Germany, granted by the IADB, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Policy engagement

He has worked as a public servant in Bolivia, providing advice to the authorities in the executive branch.

Awards

Distinction Award and Field Trip, Inter-American Development Bank, United States.

Publications

• Canavire-Bacarreza, G., Martinez-Vazquez, J., Evia, P.E. (2021). The effect of crises on fiscal and political recentralization: Large-panel evidence. International Center for Public Policy Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU paper 2111. Retrieved from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ays/ispwps/paper2111.html
• Bekchanov, M.&Evia, P.E. (2018) Review of sanitation system and investment climate for Resources Recovery and Reuse (RRR) options in South and Southeast Asia. ZEF Working Papers, 168. Retrieved from https://www.zef.de/fileadmin/user_upload/ZEF_WP_168.pdf

• Bekchanov, M., Evia, P. E., Hasan, M., Adhikari, N., & Keilmann-Gondhalekar, D. (2018). Institutional framework and financial arrangements for supporting the adoption of Resource Recovery and Reuse technologies in South Asia. ZEF Working Papers, 176. Retrieved from https://www.zef.de/fileadmin/user_upload/ZEF_WP_176.pdf

• Evia, P. E., & Pericon, O. (2013). Investments of Bolivian FX reserves: An application to Social Networks. Sixth National Meeting of Economists. Central Bank of Bolivia. Retrieved from https://www.bcb.gob.bo/eeb/sites/default/files/6eeb/docs/sesiones%5C%20paralelas/6EEB%5C%20SP-

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• Evia, P. E., & Capra, K. (2006). Stabilization Funds. UDAPE RAE, 20, 59–74. Retrieved from http://www.udape.gob.bo/portales_html/analisisEconomico/analisis/vol22/3FONDOESTB.pdf

• Books or chapters

• Evia, P.E. (2022). Cash transfers as citizens' divided of the resource boom. Opportunities and challenges of social protection in Bolivia. In G. Damonte & B. Schorr (Eds.), Andean states and the resource curse. Institutional change in extractive economics (pp. 54-69). Abingdon Oxon, New York NY: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003179559-5/cash-transferscitizens-dividend-resource-boom-pablo-evia-salas

• Evia, P. E. (2018a). Addressing horizontal inequality in Bolivia: What is the role of the fiscal policy? In G. Damonte, B. Schorr, & I. Velasquez-Castellanos (Eds.), Growth, inequality and the challenges for sustainability in a post-boom scenario in the Andean region (pp. 23–26). La Paz, Bolivia: Plural Editors. Retrieved from https://www.programa-trandes.net/Ressources/Publikationen/Growth-KAS-English-web.pdf

• Evia, P. E. (2018b). The effect of government transfers on poverty and inequality: Three different perspectives about decentralization and social policies in Bolivia. Bonn, Germany: University of Bonn