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Klaus Deininger is a Lead Economist in the Sustainability and Infrastructure Team of the Development Research Group. His areas of research include income and asset inequality and its relationship to poverty reduction and growth; access to land, land markets and land reform and their impact on household welfare and agricultural productivity; land tenure and its impact on investment, including environmental sustainability; and capacity-building (including the use of quantitative and qualitative methods) for policy analysis and evaluation, mainly in the Africa, Central America, and East Asia. He is a German national with a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota, an M.A. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Berlin, and an M.A. in theology from the University of Bonn.