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Martin Ravallion

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MARTIN RAVALLION is Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He has held various positions in the Bank, since he joined as an Economist in 1988. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, and has taught economics at L.S.E., Oxford University, the Australian National University, and Princeton University. His main research interests over the last 25 years have concerned poverty and policies for fighting it. He has advised numerous governments and international agencies on this topic, and he has written extensively on this and other subjects in economics, including three books and over 170 papers in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of ten economics journals, is a Senior Fellow of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, a Founding Council Member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality and he serves on the International Advisory Board of the International Poverty Reduction Center, Beijing.

The author's works below are drawn from the World Bank's institutional archives. You can also download other documents by this author.

Contact information: email: research@worldbank.org


World Bank working papers and publications

1 .A comparative perspective on poverty reduction in Brazil, China and India
2 .Has India's economic growth become more pro-poor in the wake of economic reforms ?
3 .The pattern of growth and poverty reduction in China
4 .Do poorer countries have less capacity for redistribution ?
5 .Why don't we see poverty convergence ?
6 .Frame-of-reference bias in subjective welfare regressions
7 .Weakly relative poverty
8 .The developing world's bulging (but vulnerable) "middle class"
9 .Bailing out the world's poorest
10 .The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty
11 .China is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty
12 .Dollar a day revisited
13 .Global poverty and inequality : a review of the evidence
14 .Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas ? Evidence from rural China
15 .Evaluation in the practice of development
16 .Are there lessons for Africa from China's success against poverty ?
17 .On the welfarist rationale for relative poverty lines
18 .Poverty reduction without economic growth ? explaining Brazil's poverty dynamics, 1985-2004
19 .How relevant is targeting to the success of an antipoverty program ?
20 .A micro-decomposition analysis of the macroeconomic determinants of human development
21 .Geographic inequity in a decentralized anti-poverty program : a case study of China
22 .Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981-2004
23 .New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty
24 .Partially awakened giants : uneven growth in China and India
25 .Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition?
26 .Di Bao : a guaranteed minimum income in urban China?
27 .Who cares about relative deprivation ?
28 .An econometric method of correcting for unit nonresponse bias in surveys
29 .Searching for the economic gradient in self-assessed health
30 .Inequality is bad for the poor
31 .Evaluating anti-poverty programs
32 .Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?
33 .A poverty-inequality trade-off?
34 .On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
35 .Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income
36 .Lasting local impacts of an economywide crisis
37 .Looking beyond averages in the trade and poverty debate
38 .China's (uneven) progress against poverty
39 .China's (uneven) progress against poverty
40 .The World Bank economic review 18 (3)
41 .The World Bank research observer 19 (2)
42 .Gainers and losers from trade reform in Morocco
43 .How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s?
44 .Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate
45 .Pro-poor growth : A primer
46 .The World Bank economic review 18 (1)
47 .In measuring aggregate "social efficiency"
48 .Social protection in a crisis - Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas
49 .On the utility consistency of poverty lines
50 .Hidden impact ? Ex-post evaluation of an anti-poverty program
51 .Household welfare impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization
52 .Targeted transfers in poor countries : revisiting the tradeoffs and policy options
53 .The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality : why measurement matters
54 .Land allocation in Vietnam's agrarian transition
55 .Survey compliance and the distribution of income
56 .Externalities in rural development - evidence for China
57 .Rich and powerful? Subjective power and welfare in Russia
58 .Is India's economic growth leaving the poor behind?
59 .Assisting the transition from workfare to work : a randomized experiment
60 .Breaking up the collective farm : welfare outcomes of Vietnam's massive land privatization
61 .Household income dynamics in rural China
62 .Do workfare participants recover quickly from retrenchment?
63 .The World Bank research observer 16 (2)
64 .Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India ?
65 .Measuring aggregate welfare in developing countries - How well do national accounts and surveys agree?
66 .Measuring pro-poor growth
67 .Inequality convergence
68 .On the urbanization of poverty
69 .Growth, inequality, and poverty : looking beyond averages
70 .Is inequality bad for business : a non-linear microeconomic model of wealth effects on self-employment
71 .The World Bank economic review 15 (1)
72 .Short-lived shocks with long-lived impacts? - household income dynamics in a transition economy
73 .How did the world's poorest fare in the 1990s ?
74 .Are the poor protected from budget cuts? theory and evidence for Argentina
75 .The World Bank economic review 14 (2)
76 .What can we learn about country performance from conditional comparisons across countries?
77 .Distributional outcomes of a decentralized welfare program
78 .Identifying welfare effects from subjective questions
79 .Is knowledge shared within households?
80 .When is growth pro-poor? Evidence from the diverse experiences of India's states
81 .Protecting the poor from macroeconomic shocks
82 .Income gains to the poor from workfare - estimates for Argentina's TRABAJAR Program
83 .The mystery of the vanishing benefits : Ms. Speedy Analyst's introduction to evaluation
84 .Who wants to redistribute? Russia's tunnel effect in the 1990's
85 .Does child labor displace schooling? - evidence on behavioral responses to an enrollment subsidy
86 .The World Bank economic review 13 (2)
87 .Subjective economic welfare
88 .Is more targeting consistent with less spending?
89 .Monitoring targeting performance when decentralized allocation to the poor are unobserved
90 .The World Bank research observer 14 (1)
91 .Demand for public safety
92 .Measuring poverty using qualitative perceptions of welfare
93 .Behavioral responses to risk in rural China
94 .Appraising workfare programs
95 .Benefit incidence and the timing of program capture
96 .Evaluating a targeted social program when placement is decentralized
97 .Poverty lines in theory and practice
98 .Determinants of transient and chronic poverty : evidence from rural China
99 .Reaching poor areas in a federal system
100 .When economic reform is faster than statistical reform - measuring and explaining inequality in rural China

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