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Caio Piza is a Senior Economist in the Development Impact Department (DIME) at the World Bank in Washington, DC. For over a decade, Caio has led the research program on private sector development. Previously, Caio served as a Research Fellow at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC, and as an Assistant Professor at Presbyterian Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Brazil.

His research focuses on identifying barriers to firm and labor productivity in low- and middle-income countries. Current work evaluates policies aimed at reducing inefficiencies on both the labor demand side—such as credit access, firm capabilities, and technology adoption—and the labor supply side, including human capital development and employable skills.

Caio’s work has been published in leading field journals, including the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review, and Economics of Education Review. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Sussex, UK, and a PhD in Economics from the same institution.