Mr. Dilip Ratha
Senior Economist and Manager, Migration and Remittances Team
Development Prospects Group
The World Bank

Dilip Ratha is the author of the article “Workers’ Remittances: An Important and Stable Source of External Development Finance” and the World Bank flagship “Global Economic Prospects 2006: Economic Implications of Remittances and Migration”. He has written extensively on international finance topics including shadow-ratings for unrated countries, future-flow securitization as a tool for development financing, and the rise of South-South foreign direct investment. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as a regional economist for Asian emerging markets at Credit Agricole Indosuez, and as an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.