About Vijayendra Rao

Vijayendra (Biju) Rao, a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank, works at the intersection of scholarship and practice. He integrates his training in economics with theories and methods from anthropology, sociology and political science to study the social, cultural, and political context of extreme poverty in developing countries.

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My father, SL Rao’s memoirs

Books
Papers
Data Sets
Podcasts/Blogs
Music etc Recipes

Video – The Social Observatory

Policy Research Talk – World Bank

Video – Localizing Development

Ash Center – Harvard University

Video – Oral Democracy

Bangalore Literary Festival