Is structural spending on solid foundations?

Publishing date: 20 February 2008
Authors: Indhira Santos

Bruegel‘s new policy brief Is Structural Spending on Solid Foundations?‘ analyses the performance of EU structural funds, asking questions that need to be addressed in the ongoing budget review: Is each euro invested where it will yield the highest return? And how much real redistribution across regions occurs as a result of structural funds?

About the authors

Indhira Santos

Indhira Santos was Research Fellow at Bruegel in June 2007 until July 2009, when she left to join the World Bank. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University with a specialisation in economic development and public economics.

She was born and raised in the Dominican Republic where she studied economics as an undergraduate. She was Chief Researcher at the Economic research center of PUCMM University and worked for the Ministry of Finance. She has also worked for the central Bank of Turkey.

Indhira's research interests are development microeconomics, public economics and organisational analysis.

She coordinated Bruegel‘s project on the EU budget.

She is fluent in Spanish and English.