Martin Ravallion
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MARTIN RAVALLION is Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He has held various position 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 serves on the International Advisory Board of the International Poverty Research 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

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Works by this author

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Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981-2004

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Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas ? Evidence from rural China

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Partially awakened giants : uneven growth in China and India

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Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition?

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Di Bao : a guaranteed minimum income in urban China?

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Who cares about relative deprivation ?

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An econometric method of correcting for unit nonresponse bias in surveys

8 .
Searching for the economic gradient in self-assessed health

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Inequality is bad for the poor

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Evaluating anti-poverty programs

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Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?

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A poverty-inequality trade-off?

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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world

14 .
Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income

15 .
Lasting local impacts of an economywide crisis

16 .
Looking beyond averages in the trade and poverty debate

17 .
China's (uneven) progress against poverty

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The World Bank economic review 18 (3)

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The World Bank research observer 19 (2)

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Gainers and losers from trade reform in Morocco

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How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s?

22 .
Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate

23 .
Pro-poor growth : A primer

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The World Bank economic review 18 (1)

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In measuring aggregate "social efficiency"

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Social protection in a crisis - Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas

27 .
On the utility consistency of poverty lines

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Hidden impact ? Ex-post evaluation of an anti-poverty program

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Household welfare impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization

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Targeted transfers in poor countries : revisiting the tradeoffs and policy options

31 .
The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality : why measurement matters

32 .
Land allocation in Vietnam's agrarian transition

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Survey compliance and the distribution of income

34 .
Externalities in rural development - evidence for China

35 .
Rich and powerful? Subjective power and welfare in Russia

36 .
Is India's economic growth leaving the poor behind?

37 .
Assisting the transition from workfare to work : a randomized experiment

38 .
Breaking up the collective farm : welfare outcomes of Vietnam's massive land privatization

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Household income dynamics in rural China

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Do workfare participants recover quickly from retrenchment?

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The World Bank research observer 16 (2)

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Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India ?

43 .
Measuring aggregate welfare in developing countries - How well do national accounts and surveys agree?

44 .
Measuring pro-poor growth

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Inequality convergence

46 .
On the urbanization of poverty

47 .
Growth, inequality, and poverty : looking beyond averages

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Is inequality bad for business : a non-linear microeconomic model of wealth effects on self-employment

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The World Bank economic review 15 (1)

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Short-lived shocks with long-lived impacts? - household income dynamics in a transition economy

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How did the world's poorest fare in the 1990s ?

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Are the poor protected from budget cuts? theory and evidence for Argentina

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The World Bank economic review 14 (2)

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What can we learn about country performance from conditional comparisons across countries?

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Distributional outcomes of a decentralized welfare program

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Identifying welfare effects from subjective questions

57 .
Is knowledge shared within households?

58 .
When is growth pro-poor? Evidence from the diverse experiences of India's states

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Protecting the poor from macroeconomic shocks

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Income gains to the poor from workfare - estimates for Argentina's TRABAJAR Program

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The mystery of the vanishing benefits : Ms. Speedy Analyst's introduction to evaluation

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Who wants to redistribute? Russia's tunnel effect in the 1990's

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Does child labor displace schooling? - evidence on behavioral responses to an enrollment subsidy

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The World Bank economic review 13 (2)

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Subjective economic welfare

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Is more targeting consistent with less spending?

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Monitoring targeting performance when decentralized allocation to the poor are unobserved

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The World Bank research observer 14 (1)

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Demand for public safety

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Measuring poverty using qualitative perceptions of welfare

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Behavioral responses to risk in rural China

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Appraising workfare programs

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Benefit incidence and the timing of program capture

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Evaluating a targeted social program when placement is decentralized

75 .
Poverty lines in theory and practice

76 .
Determinants of transient and chronic poverty : evidence from rural China

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Reaching poor areas in a federal system

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When economic reform is faster than statistical reform - measuring and explaining inequality in rural China

79 .
Are the poor less well-insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China

80 .
Banking on the poor? Branch placement and nonfarm rural development in Bangladesh

81 .
Spatial poverty traps?

82 .
Poor areas, or only poor people?

83 .
Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?

84 .
The World Bank economic review 11 (2)

85 .
Are there dynamic gains from a poor-area development program?

86 .
Famines and economics

87 .
What can new survey data tell us about recent changes in distribution and poverty?

88 .
Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring : a case study for India

89 .
The World Bank research observer 11(2)

90 .
Issues in measuring and modeling poverty

91 .
Transient poverty in rural China

92 .
Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?

93 .
Equity and growth in developing countries : old and new perspectives on the policy issues

94 .
Decomposing social indicators using distributional data

95 .
Growth and poverty in rural India

96 .
How important to India's poor is the urban - rural composition of growth?

97 .
When method matters : toward a resolution of the debate about Bangladesh's poverty measures

98 .
Poverty and household size

99 .
How land-based targeting affects rural poverty

100 .
The World Bank economic review 8(1)




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