Jamil Mubarak, Ph.D. Email and Phone Number

Prepared technical assistance proposals for a number of micro-finance and small and medium enterprise institutions (SMEs) in Africa to make them qualify for and obtain Japanese grant funding. These institutions were based in Kenya, Ivory Coast, Uganda, Egypt, and Guinea. Each proposal discussed project profile, institutional background, key objectives, inputs, budgets and expenditures, implementation timelines, projected outcomes, and key performance indicators. All of the proposals I wrote subsequently received critical funding needed.

⇨Economic Development Institute (now called World Bank Institute); Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Researched the nexus between water, agriculture, and trade in the MENA region in preparation for a planned ministerial meeting on the topic.

During my tenure as an Economic Consultant for the World Bank, I worked in countries that include Tanzania, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. ⇨ Tanzania: Main author of Chapter 8 of Report No. 26807-TA, “United Republic of Tanzania Public Expenditure Review FY03”, evaluating six sector expenditure reviews (SPERs) on Education, Health and HIV/AIDS, Water, Roads, and Agriculture as to their comprehensiveness, quality, and alignment with the goals of the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS). It also discussed the full financing cost estimates and showed their financing gap.⇨ Sudan: authored a background paper on the economy of South Sudan (before independence) for the World Bank Report No. 24620-SU, “Sudan: Stabilization and Reconstruction - Country Economic Memorandum”.⇨ Ethiopia: Contributed to a chapter on the economic policy challenges and the required essential adjustments toward market-based economy in Ethiopia.⇨ Eritrea. Prepared the country macroeconomic section of a comprehensive policy brief on key issues in Eritrea for a group of the World Bank Board of Directors scheduled for a visit to Eritrea.

My general duties involved monitoring economic conditions and advising administrations on economic policy to support emerging peace-time transition. Specifically, I:⇨ Conducted appraisals and authored reports to highlight investment needs of the power sector in Mogadishu and Galkayo.⇨ Monitored economic conditions in Somalia and wrote reports and policy briefs for Nairobi-based United Nations interagency committees working on Somalia.⇨ Regularly visited and advised regional administrations on economic policy to support emerging peace-time transition.⇨ For Somaliland: (i) prepared a report at the request of then Finance Minister Saed Gees regarding the impact of existing exchange rate arrangements in Somaliland on trade and commerce; and highlighted the policy options. (ii) At the request of Governor Abdirahman Du’ale of the Central Bank of Somaliland, provided feedback on proposed draft law (Act of the Central Bank) revising its core mission and functions. (iii) on behalf of UNDP, presented at a televised event at Mansoor Hotel an appraisal of the power sector for Hargeisa and a proposed power plant. The report was originally prepared by two retired World Bank engineers. (iv) provided, along with an Italian professor, a two-days long seminar to a distinguished group of parliamentarians at Amoud University, Borama.

⇨Bolivia and Dominican Republic. Created and maintained macroeconomic models for policy analysis. The models generated internally consistent macroeconomic projections for use in multiple country reports, including Country Economic Memorandum, Country Risk Assessment, and Public Investment Review (PIR), Public Expenditure Review (PER). The models were the extended version of the Required Minimum Standard Model (RMSM-X) used in country operations desks at the World Bank. RMSM-X contained several thousand variables representing all sectors of the economy. The models were mainly recursive but contained several behavioral equations. The Bolivia model was used, in coordination with Bolivia’s Planning Agency, to assess the consolidated financial impact of 9 policy reforms that were part of Bolivia’s 1993 Capitalization Program. Some of the reform sub-models were built by the Planning Agency.⇨Lesotho. Prepared an issues paper regarding public expenditure review of the five key agricultural sector institutions, including the Ministry of Agriculture.⇨Jamaica. Wrote a preliminary report on trade taxes and as to why recorded investment levels are high given the reported modest output growth.