Overview
This internship offers undergraduate and postgraduate students hands-on experience in macroeconomic modeling and fiscal analytics within the World Bank Group's Fiscal Policy and Growth vertical, focusing on the Eastern Africa program, including Burundi.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Burundi macro-fiscal program through CGE modeling and extensions, including running simulations, documenting assumptions, updating input-output tables, and preparing tables and charts.
- Assist with DSGE modeling by supporting literature review, specification, calibration or estimation, coding, solution, and documentation of a small open-economy model for Burundi.
- Conduct BOOST and AI-assisted fiscal analytics, including cleaning and analyzing budget-execution data, developing diagnostics, revenue forecasts, dashboards, and testing AI-assisted workflows.
- Manage macro-fiscal databases and a validated register of key indicators, improve reusable templates and AI-enabled agents, and document data sources, model versions, and tools.
- Contribute inputs from these workstreams to FPG flagship and surveillance products and undertake related tasks.
Required Experience
Strong macroeconomics training; CGE or DSGE coursework or research strongly preferred. Interest in AI-enabled economic analysis, data pipelines, or research workflows is an asset.
Qualifications
Current enrollment in, or final-year completion of, a postgraduate master's/PhD program in economics or a related quantitative field.
