Lili Vessereau

Research Fellow

Lili Vessereau is a Research Fellow at the Harvard Growth Lab, a Teaching Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, and an Economist at the Finance for Development Lab. Her research interests lie in international macroeconomics, sovereign debt and international trade economics. She brings experience across both public and private sectors, having previously held positions at the World Bank, the French Ministry of Finance in an advisory capacity, and the United Nations, as well as in investment banking. She holds Master’s degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School, Sciences Po Paris, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and HEC Paris.

By Lili Vessereau

Research

Inclusive Pensions for an Aging World: Evidence and Strategies for Engaging Informal Workers

This Working Paper reviews how different countries have designed pension schemes for informal workers. It focuses on contributory schemes for the “missing middle”: informal workers with sufficiently stable incomes to save for old age but who lack access to suitable pension options.