Senior Economist

**Job #**:

- req27740**Organization**:

- World Bank**Sector**:

- Economics**Grade**:

- GG**Term Duration**:

- 4 years 0 months**Recruitment Type**:

- International Recruitment**Location**:

- Bangkok,Thailand**Required Language(s)**:

- English**Preferred Language(s)**:
**Closing Date**:

- 6/21/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC**Description**

**East Asia and the Pacific (EAP)**

The East Asia and the Pacific Region (EAP) has made the fastest progress in economic growth and poverty reduction of any region in the last quarter-century We need the greatest talent focused on the EAP region to harness the potential and innovation happening across the continent. Despite progress, the EAP region still faces huge development challenges. A large portion of the region’s population remains vulnerable to income shocks, including from a global economic slowdown, changing global and regional value-chains, and climate-related risks. Addressing domestic revenue mobilization has been a longstanding challenge for several countries in the EAP region. Insufficient revenue has often constrained priority social and infrastructure spending, limiting countries’ ability to enhance growth prospects, improve people’s lives, and effectively respond to climate change.

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**Position**

The position is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

**Duties and Accountabilities**

The Tax Policy Senior Economist will lead, supervise, and support the unit's analytical program on domestic revenue mobilization, focusing on tax policy issues. Additionally, the Senior Economist will contribute to development of domestic revenue related policy operations and results-based operations across the region. She/he will also participate in cross-GP teams focusing on institutional reforms related to tax policy and tax administration.
- Lead and/or contribute to the analysis of domestic revenue policies in EAP countries. This involves assessing the efficiency, effectiveness, simplicity, and fairness of tax systems or its components, using both micro-data analysis and simulations and more aggregate/macro-based approaches. Identify opportunities and constraints for tax reforms and formulate country-specific recommendations for tax policy reform, including through integrative and cross-cutting work such as tax policy for green growth and human capital development.
- Provide knowledge products, tools, and data to speed-up and improve project quality, analytical work, and policy dialogue on tax reforms in EAP.
- Lead and contribute to technical inputs to analytic work and advisory services, and/or supervising the preparation of analytical products (ASA) and other relevant technical reports to clients in close collaboration with the CMUs, Program Leaders, relevant Task Team Leaders and sector experts within and outside the Bank. Lead technical assistance on revenue mobilization at the country level.
- Contribute and lead the development of lending operations and/or components to support increased domestic revenue mobilization in the region.
- Mobilize resources to support task teams working on taxation, fiscal aspects of climate change, and fiscal policy.
- Support the corporate agenda through analytical inputs, briefs, and monitoring of the Bank’s corporate commitments on tax (e.g., under IDA and Financing for Development) and climate change.
- Collaborate with client government and partners such as the IMF, OECD, UN, and donor agencies on providing support to tax reform in EAP countries.

**Selection Criteria**
- Minimum Master’s degree (PhD. Preferred) in Economics, Public finance, Tax policy or similar professional qualifications.
- At least eight years of work experience covering tax policy or combination of tax administration and tax policy experience with at least four years in applied tax policy work. Experience of work in the public sector (including advisory work) on taxation would be an advantage.
- Demonstrated analytical and operational skills in public sector economic and institutional reforms and practical experience working with different lending instruments (e.g., Investment Project Financing, Program for Results, Development Policy Operations and Trust Funds) in the design and delivery of projects and/or studies in areas key to tax reforms in developing countries will be an advantage.
- Track record of authored or co-authored reports/publications showing analysis of tax policy on topics such as: a) tax incentives, b) carbon taxation, c) international taxation, and d) extractive industries, etc.
- Experience with development and/or use of tax models for policy work, such as: a) macro models such as OLG models, b) microsimulation models, c) tax gap models will be an advantage.
- Confirmed knowledge of statistical software such as R or STATA
- Familiarity with broader macro-fiscal reform and integration of tax issues in that conte