But the head of the unit running 'Doing Business' Shanta Devarajan (former Vice-President for Africa at the Bank) rejects entirely the suggestion of interference by Georgieva's office...

The price drop could add up to one percentage point to gross domestic product growth this year according to World Bank Middle East and North Africa region chief economist Shanta Devarajan and quell the concerns over energy subsidies which had reached $5 bn...

For Shanta Devarajan the World Bank’s Chief Economist for Africa there is enough domestic demand in Africa to sustain it as long as there is no meltdown in Europe North America and China...

‘There’s a role foreign aid can play in developing infrastructure ’ said Shantayanan Devarajan Chief Economist for Africa at the World Bank...

In Washington for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings on 23-25 September he had just heard the Bank’s Chief Economist for Africa Shantayanan Devarajan talk about the continent’s ‘robust growth’...

Of the African fiscal deficits during the 2008 crisis some 80% were financed from domestic resources Shanta Devarajan noted...

The World Bank’s Africa economist Shantayanan Devarajan put it in still starker terms: ‘An estimated seven to ten million people were driven into poverty...

The Bank's Africa economist Shanta Devarajan points out that private capital flows which have been rising faster in Africa than any other region are drying up...

As Chief Economist for the Bank's Africa Region Shanta Devarajan is the public face of its efforts...

Part of the difficulty in gauging how Asia will react and how much Africa might benefit from another Asian diversfication is that the effects of the crisis have not worked their way through the international banking and trading system yet according to the World Bank's Chief Economist for Africa Shantayanan Devarajan...