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Girija Borker

  • Economist
  • World Bank

Roles

Researchers

Girija Borker is an Economist in the Impact Evaluation unit of the Development Research Group at the World Bank. She is a development economist working primarily on gender, violence, education, and transport in urban areas. Her ongoing projects study the economic consequences of sexual harassment in public spaces and assess the effectiveness of potential solutions on women’s physical and economic mobility such as police patrolling, a reliable response system and access to subsidized public transit. Her work has been featured by Quartz, The Hindustan Times, Le Monde, VoxDev, BBC Radio, and The New Statesman. Girija obtained her PhD in Economics from Brown University in 2017.

Projects

Safety in numbers? Free public transportation for women and women’s safety

Dev Patel, Girija Borker, Gabriel Kreindler 1 Nov 2020
Project

Gender-based violence and police reform: Evaluating a gender-based violence and sensitisation training programme

Nathan Fiala, Girija Borker, Nishith Prakash, Sofia Amaral, Maria Sviatschi, Ranjit Mishra 28 Feb 2021
Project

All contributions

The growing concern around violence against women and girls

25 November 2020
Past Event