Dr. Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr.
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Dr. Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr. is the current president of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). Before this appointment, he was a senior research fellow at PIDS for 29 years, wherein he led the education and labor policy research team that studied key policy recommendations and reforms, including the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, Sustainable Livelihood Program, and Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act or Free Tuition Law, among others.
He also served as Officer-in-Charge and Deputy Executive Director for Policy Development and Planning of the Agricultural Credit Policy Council and Deputy Executive Director of the Policy Development Foundation, Inc. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of the Philippines School of Economics and did postdoctoral studies at Harvard University.
He is considered one of the country’s pioneers in impact evaluation research. He has extensive experience designing, conducting, and teaching impact evaluation of programs and policies in education, social protection, judicial reforms, community-driven development, water services, agriculture, and agricultural finance.
He has designed rigorous impact evaluations for PIDS. His expertise in impact evaluation has been widely sought by various international organizations, including the Asian Development Bank, Australian Agency for International Development, Innovations for Poverty Action, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States Agency for International Development, and World Bank.
Dr. Orbeta specializes in applied economic modeling, impact evaluation, social sector issues, demographic economics, and information technologies. He has published numerous papers on these areas.
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