Kinnon Scott
Kinnon Scott is a Senior Economist in the Poverty and Equality Global practice. She is presently working in the Latin America and Caribbean region and manages the Poverty and Equity work program for Central America. She has co-authored Systematic Country Diagnostics for Panama and Guatemala looking at growth, inclusion and sustainability and is leading studies on female migrants in Mexico and the wiliness of higher income individuals to give up fuel subsides in El Salvador. Prior to this she was in the Poverty and Inequality within the World Bank’s Research Group where she managed the Living Standards Measurement Study. In this capacity she worked extensively with governments to produce policy-relevant data for poverty measurement and monitoring in many regions of the world. Professor Scott has been engaged in work on poverty measurement and highlights methodological research in household surveys (in areas of finance, income and consumption) as well as disability, the evolution of poverty and social protection targeting.