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Marina Mendes Tavares is an Economist at the IMF (International Monetary Fund), and leader of the IMF-DFID (Department for International Development, UK Government) working group on the interconnections between macroeconomic policy and income inequality. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota and M.A. from the Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA). Prior to joining the Fund, Marina worked as an assistant professor at Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM). Her research interests include macroeconomics, public finance, gender, and inequality. Her research is available at: https://sites.google.com/site/mmtecon/