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 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 reduction and Environmental Economics.

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. 

Policy engagement

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