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Inequality and globalization : a review essay

Ravallion, Martin - In: Journal of economic literature 56 (2018) 2, pp. 620-642

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Are There Lessons For Africa From China's Success Against Poverty?

Ravallion, Martin - 2008

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While...

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Famines and economics

Ravallion, Martin - 1996

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Looking beyond averages in the trade and poverty debate

Ravallion, Martin - 2004

of 'globalization.' Ravallion views the issue through both 'macro' and 'micro' empirical lenses. The macro lens uses … micro approaches cast doubt on some wide generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate. Additionally the micro … Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to assess the distributional impacts of economywide policies"--World …

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New Evidence On The Urbanization of Global Poverty

Sangraula, Prem - 2007

The authors provide new evidence on the extent to which absolute poverty has urbanized in the developing world, and the … role that population urbanization has played in overall poverty reduction. They find that one-quarter of the world …

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Partially Awakened Giants : Uneven Growth In China And India

Chaudhuri, Shubham - 2006

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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On the urbanization of poverty

Ravallion, Martin - 2001

the poor will still live in rural areas long after most people in the developing world live in urban areas …

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Decomposing social indicators using distributional data

Bidani, Benu - 1995

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Do poorer countries have less capacity for redistribution?

Ravallion, Martin - In: Journal of globalization and development 1 (2010) 2, pp. 1-29

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Economics of the Environment : Theory and Policy

Siebert, Horst - 1998 - Fifth, Revised Edition

The book interprets nature and the environment as a scarce resource. It offers a theoretical study of the allocation problem and describes different policy approaches to the environmental problem. The entire spectrum of the allocation issue is studied: The use of the environment in a static...

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