Xavier Giné

World Bank

Xavier Giné is a Lead Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Development Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank. His research has focused on access to financial services and rural financial markets and, in recent papers, he has investigated the macroeconomic effects of a credit liberalization; the relationship between formal and informal sources of credit in rural credit markets; indigenous interlinked credit contracts in the fishing industry and the impact of weather insurance. Xavier holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.