Vijaya Ramachandran is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. She works on private sector development in Africa and oversees CGD's work program on fragile states. Most recently, Vijaya's research has focused on the analysis of enterprise survey data in Africa, identifying the constraints to doing business from the perspective of the private sector; this work was published as a CGD book entitled Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the Private Sector and What to Do About It.