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Evaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India???s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Lagrange, Arthur Alik; Ravallion, Martin - 2013

Prevailing practices in evaluating workfare programs have ignored the disutility of the type of work done, with theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, past assessments have relied solely on household...

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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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Evaluation in the Practice of Development

Ravallion, Martin - 2012

Knowledge about development effectiveness is constrained by two factors. First, the project staff in governments and international agencies who decide how much to invest in research on specific interventions are often not well informed about the returns to rigorous evaluation and (even when they...

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Lasting Local Impacts of an Economywide Crisis

Ravallion, Martin; Lokshin, Michael - 2012

The immediate welfare costs of an economywide crisis can be high, but are there also lasting impacts? And are they greater in some geographic areas than others? The authors study Indonesia s severe financial crisis of 1998. They use 10 national surveys spanning 1993 2002, each covering 200,000...

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Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs

Ravallion, Martin - 2012

The author critically reviews the methods available for the ex-post counterfactual analysis of programs that are assigned exclusively to individuals, households, or locations. The discussion covers both experimental and non-experimental methods (including propensity-score matching, discontinuity...

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How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?

Ravallion, Martin - 2013

Alternative scenarios are considered for reducing by one billion the number of people living below $1.25 a day. The low-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty reduction of the 1980s and 1990s, though...

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