Samuel Pienknagura

Samuel Pienknagura is Deputy Division Chief in the Structural and Climate Policies Division in the IMF’s Research Department. Before joining the IMF, he was a Senior Economist at the World Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an undergraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Samuel’s research focuses on how structural and macroeconomic policies affect economic performance and has been published, among others, in the Journal of International Economics, the World Bank Economic Review and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

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• Industrial Policy Is Adapting to Crises, but Remains Hard to Implement Effectively
  • Published: May 28, 2026
  • Authors: Adam Jakubik, Florence Jaumotte, Samuel Pienknagura, Michele Ruta
  • Summary: As governments intervene more, evidence shows that the benefits are modest and depend on thoughtful design
• How Green Innovation Can Stimulate Economies and Curb Emissions
  • Published: November 6, 2023
  • Authors: Zeina Hasna, Florence Jaumotte, Samuel Pienknagura
  • Summary: Coordinated climate policies can spur innovation in low-carbon technologies and help them spread to emerging market and developing economies
• Could Renewed Social Unrest Hinder the Recovery?
  • Published: July 13, 2021
  • Authors: Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov, Samuel Pienknagura, Luca Ricci
• Pandemic Persistence Clouds Latin America and Caribbean Recovery
  • Published: October 22, 2020
  • Authors: Samuel Pienknagura, Alejandro Werner, Jorge Roldós
  • Summary: COVID-19 has hit Latin America and the Caribbean harder than other parts of the world, both in human and economic terms.

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