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Amparo Palacios-L¨®pez is?Program Manager at the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) unit.

She leads the Survey Methods Program of the LSMS.? ?

Her primary area of research is development, with a focus on survey methods, labor, poverty, and agriculture. The recent focus of her methodological research has been on labor, informality, consumption.

Amparo has a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and holds a MA in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Cat¨®lica de Chile.??