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A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Human Development

Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; van de Walle, Dominique - 2012

. The paper illustrates the decomposition using data for Morocco and Vietnam, and the results offer some surprising insights …

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Safeguards and Antidumping in Latin American Trade Liberalization

Finger, J. Michael; Nogues, Julio J. - 2012

pressures for protection in agencies with economy-wide accountabilities. The World Trade Organization's procedural requirements …

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Trade Insulation as Social Protection

Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ravallion, Martin - 2013

In a world with volatile food prices, countries have an incentive to shelter their populations from induced real income shocks. When some agents are net food producers while others are net consumers, there is scope for insurance between the two groups. A domestic social protection scheme would...

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Gainers and Losers from Trade Reform in Morocco

Ravallion, Martin; Lokshin, Michael - 2013

The authors use Morocco's national survey of living standards to measure the short-term welfare impacts of prior estimates of the price changes attributed to various trade policy reforms for cereals-the country's main food staple. They find small impacts on mean consumption and inequality in the...

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Sustaining Trade Reform : Institutional Lessons from Peru and Argentina

Baracat, Elias A.; Finger, J. Michael; Nogués, Julio J.; … - 2014

Peruvians a positive vision of Peru in the international economy and to extend the application of World Trade Organization … the international economy as an exploitive environment. The paper brings out the weakness of international obligations to … economy within the same rules that Argentina has so easily violated. …

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Global Poverty and Inequality : A Review of the Evidence

Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

Drawing on a compilation of data from household surveys representing 130 countries, many over a period of 25 years, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the negative correlations between both poverty and inequality...

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Poverty Reduction without Economic Growth? Explaining Brazil's Poverty Dynamics, 1985-2004

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G.; … - 2012

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of...

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Partially Awakened Giants : Uneven Growth in China and India

Chaudhuri, Shubham; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China and India and what this has meant for inequality and poverty. Drawing on analyses based on existing household survey data and aggregate data from official sources, the authors show that growth has indeed been...

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Is India's Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind?

Datt, Gaurav; Ravallion, Martin - 2013

There has been much debate about how much India's poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms in the 1990s. The authors argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s. However, there is considerable diversity in performance...

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Pro-Poor Growth : A Primer

Ravallion, Martin - 2013

These days it seems that almost everyone in the development community is talking about "pro-poor growth." What exactly is it, and how can we measure it? Is ordinary economic growth always "pro-poor growth" or is that some special kind of growth? And if it is something special, what makes it...

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