Research Topics
Fragile States, Population and Development, Private Investment, Regions
Background
Vijaya Ramachandran is a senior fellow at CGD. She works on private sector development in Africa and oversees CGD's work program on fragile states. Most recently, Vijaya's research has focused on the analysis of enterprise survey data in Africa, identifying the constraints to doing business from the perspective of the private sector; this work was published as a CGD book entitled Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the Private Sector and What to Do About It. Vijaya served as rapporteur to the Africa Progress Panel in 2008 and continues to serve as a consultant to the Panel. Prior to joining CGD, Vijaya taught at Georgetown University and also worked at the World Bank and in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Her work has appeared in several media outlets including the Washington Post, Voice of America, and the Huffington Post. Vijaya earned her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1991.
Full CV
Non-CGD Publications
Vijaya's non CGD publications and working papers
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