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Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
Ravallion, Martin - eSocialSciences - 2010
structural modelling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. Case studies are presented for China and Morocco. Both the macro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752770
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Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
Ravallion, Martin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059798
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Fleshing out the olive? : observations on income polarization in China since 1981
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - In: China economic review : an international journal 76 (2022), pp. 1-14
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233498
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Is that really a Kuznets curve? : turning points for income inequality in China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - In: Journal of economic inequality 20 (2022) 4, pp. 749-776
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013483890
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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 acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521295
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Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success Against Poverty?
Ravallion, Martin - 2016
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 acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747483
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Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success Against Poverty?
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
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 acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552272
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Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success against Poverty?
Ravallion, Martin - 2009
At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than 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 acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561879
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Research for development a World Bank perspective on future directions for research
Gelb, Alan; Harrison, Ann; Ravallion, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the history of development research at the World Bank and points to new future directions in both what we research and how we research. Six main messages emerge. First, research and data have long been essential elements of the Bank’s country programs and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258925
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Toward Better Global Poverty Measures
Ravallion, Martin - 2015
While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are a number of challenges ahead. The paper discusses three sets of problems: (i) how to allow for social effects on welfare, recognizing the identification issues involved; (ii) the need to monitor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014119