Visiting Professor Emmanuel Skoufias served as a Lead Economist in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank Group, from 2004 until his retirement in 2022. His area of expertise includes the use of microdata to analyse the determinants of poverty and household welfare, the impacts of risk and risk management strategies, and the targeting of social protection programs. He joined us for a deep dive into how microdata informs policy planning and decisions. Subscribe to the Global-is-Asian newsletter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.