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Mushfiq Mobarak is an Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University, New Haven, USA. He is a development economist with interests in public finance (environmental and political economy) issues. He joined the Yale School of Management faculty in 2007 with previous work experience at the World Bank, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and at the International Monetary Fund. He has several ongoing field research projects in Bangladesh, India, Malawi and Brazil.

His current research interests include projects on water management and hydropower in Brazil, and field experiments exploring ways to induce people in developing countries to adopt technologies or behaviors that are likely to be welfare improving. He is also the Lead Academic for the Bangladesh Research Program of the DFID/LSE/Oxford ‘International Growth Centre (IGC)’, and a co-Chair of the Urban Services Initiative at the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT.

He advises several Ph.D. economics candidates working on development issues, and he won the 2006 Most Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award at the University of Colorado. He teaches MBA courses focused on the challenges to doing for-profit or non-profit business in developing countries, and on marketing products and behaviors to poor consumers. He also leads Yale MBA ‘international experience’ trips to developing countries.