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Jamal Saghir is a Professor of Practice at the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University, Montreal, a Distinguished Fellow for Economic and Development at the Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut, and a Senior Fellow at the Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado. He is a former Director at the World Bank Group, Washington, DC.
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