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Geographic inequity in a decentralized anti-poverty program : a case study of China

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

The central governments of many developing countries have chosen to decentralize their anti-poverty programs, in the expectation that local agents are better informed about local needs. The paper shows that this potential advantage of decentralized eligibility criteria can come at a large cost,...

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

Jalan, Jyotsna; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997

The authors test how well consumption is insured against income risk in a panel of sampled households in rural China. They estimate the risk insurance models by Generalized Method of Moments, treating income and household size as endogenous. Insurance exists for all wealth groups, although the...

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Household income dynamics in rural China

Jalan, Jyotsna; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

income shock is appreciably slower for the poor than for others. They also find that current inequality reducesfuture growth … in mean incomes, though the"growth cost"of inequality appears to be small. The maximum contribution of inequality is …

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

Datt, Gaurav; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996

The unevenness of the rise in rural living standards in the various states of India since the 1950s allowed the authors to study the causes of poverty. They modeled the evolution of average consumption and various poverty measures using pooled state-level data for 1957-91. They found that...

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Troubling tradeoffs in the Human Development Index

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2010

The 20th Human Development Report has introduced a new version of its famous Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI aggregates country-level attainments in life expectancy, schooling and income per capita. Each year's rankings by the HDI are keenly watched in both rich and poor countries. The...

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How long will it take to lift one billion people out of poverty ?

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole. …

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Di Bao : a guaranteed minimum income in urban China?

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin; Wang, Youjuan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

Concerns about incentives and targeting naturally arise when cash transfers are used to fight poverty. The authors address these concerns in the context of China's Di Bao program, which uses means-tested transfers to try to assure that no registered urban resident has an income below a...

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

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Two tradeoffs have been widely seen to severely constrain the scope for attacking poverty using redistributive transfers in poor countries: an equity-efficiency tradeoff and an insurance-efficiency tradeoff. The author provides a critical overview of recent theoretical and empirical work that...

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

Bruno, Michael; Ravallion, Martin; Squire, Lyn - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996

turns out not to be a fact at all. Growth's effects on inequality can go either way and are contingent on several other … inequality. Possibly measurement errors confound the true relationship, but they think it more likely that the relationship … process will tend to be lower, the higher the extent of initial inequality. A smaller share of total income must imply a …

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Benefit incidence with incentive effects, measurement errors and latent heterogeneity

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

Empirical studies of tax and benefit incidence routinely ignore behavioral responses and measurement errors. This paper offers an econometric method of estimating the mean benefit withdrawal rate (marginal tax rate) allowing for incentive effects, measurement errors, and correlated latent...

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