Maria Franco Chuaire

Associate II, Initiative 20x20

Bio

Maria is an Associate for the Global Restoration Initiative of the Food, Forest, and Water Program. She works directly for Initiative 20x20, a country-led effort aiming to bring 20 million hectares of degraded land in Latin America and the Caribbean into restoration by 2020.

Prior to joining WRI, Maria was a Research Fellow at the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank. She worked in the political economy area supporting and carrying out research on policymaking capabilities (including studies on the determinants and effects of institutionalization), budget institutions, and tax compliance in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Maria holds an M.A in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a B.A in Economics from Universidad del Rosario in Bogota, Colombia.

Maria is a passionate traveler and cyclist. She also enjoys photography, practicing yoga, dancing, and mastering new recipes.

Blogs

A Tale of Two Cities in Brazil (and the Forest that Connects Them)
by Sabin Ray, Will Anderson and Maria Franco Chuaire - August 20, 2019
Salvador and São Paulo are two very different cities. But they are connected by the Atlantic Forest—Brazil's other rainforest, a crucial but compromised ecosystem that both cities are working to protect.
Initiative 20x20: A Landscape Restoration Movement Rises in Latin America and the Caribbean
by Walter Vergara, Luciana Gallardo Lomeli, Maria Franco Chuaire, Sarah Weber and René Zamora Cristales - December 05, 2015
In just one year, Initiative 20x20 has secured commitments to restore 27.7 million hectares of land by 2020—an area the size of the United Kingdom —with private impact investors earmarking $730 million to support restoration projects in the region.

External Publications

"State capacity and the quality of policies. Revisiting the relationship between openness and government size."
By Franco Chuaire Maria, Scartascini Carlos, Tommasi Mariano.
Economics & Politics 29 (2017): 133-156 DOI: 10.1111/ecpo.12090.

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