Author Bio
Lucas Navarro
Lucas Navarro is an external consultant in the Development Effectiveness Division of IDB Invest and in the Competitiveness, Technology, and Innovation Division of the IDB. He has worked as an academic in the economics departments of Queen Mary University of London, Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile), and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), where he has published in specialized academic journals, such as The Economic Journal, Review of Economic Dynamics, and Economics Letters, among others.
He has experience leading research projects in the areas of productive development, productivity, and innovation, and in the intersection of these topics with labor economics. Lucas also has experience in the design, execution, cost-benefit analysis, and impact evaluations of development projects. He holds a degree in economics from the National University of Córdoba and a PhD and Master's degree in Economics from Georgetown University.
Posts by Lucas Navarro
How to Measure Job Creation in Development Projects
Development finance institutions need to know how many jobs their investments support and create, yet obtaining reliable data is a challenge. To address this, IDB Invest is piloting a new framework to measure the contribution of development project portfolios to employment in Latin America and the Caribbean.