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Rinku Murgai is a Lead Economist at the World Bank, based in the New Delhi office. She has interest and analytic skills in the general areas of poverty, vulnerability and public policy, encompassing poverty and inequality measurement; functioning of labour, land and water markets; and social protection design, delivery and evaluation. Rinku holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Economics from Swarthmore College, and a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California at Berkeley.