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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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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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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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