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Biography:
Diego Zavaleta is a Research Officer with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford. He is involved in research pertaining aspects of shame, humiliation and isolation as missing dimensions of poverty data. His doctoral research focused on economic relations that prevent major ethnic conflict in Bolivia, as part of a global project within the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the University of Oxford. He has D.Phil in Development Studies and a M.Sc. in Public Policy from the University of Oxford, an MBA from the University of Birmingham and a B.S. in Economics from Arizona State University. He has worked for a variety of International Organisations, including The World Bank and the United Nations Development Program, as well as for the Bolivian government. Before joining Oxford, he was the Secretary for the National Dialogue of the Ministry of the Presidency. He is a Bolivian national.
Education
2010 D.Phil. in Development Studies University of Oxford, UK
Thesis: The Evolving Socio-Economic Structures of Ethnic Appeasement in La Paz, Bolivia
1998 M.Sc. in Public Policy in Latin America, University of Oxford, UK
1997 M.B.A. Public Service, University of Birmingham, UK
1995 B.S. in Economics, Arizona State University, USA
Selected Publications
Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth: A governance puzzle in Bolivia?With Kaufmann, D and Mastruzzi, M. In “In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth”. Dani Rodrik Ed. Princeton University Press, (2003).
The ability to go about without shame: a proposal for international comparable indicators on shame and humiliation.Oxford Development Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4 (2007)
Oversimplifying Identities: the Debate over what is Indigena and what is Mestizo.In “ Unresolved Tensions: Bolivia Past and Present”. Laurence Whitehead and John Crabtree Ed. Pittsburgh University Press (Forthcoming 2008).
