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Inequality and social distancing during the pandemic
Brown, Caitlin; Ravallion, Martin - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290819
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Child health and the housing environment
Brown, Caitlin; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 168 (2023), pp. 1-8
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437727
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Who wants Safer Streets? Explaining Concern for Public Safety in Brazil
Pradhan, Menno; Ravallion, Martin - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
public safety at given own-income. Theown-income effect is nonlinear, such that inequality attenuates the aggregate concern … for greatersafety. Education raises concern, and strongly so when neighbors are poorly educated. Controllingfor these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257266
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The Two Poverty Enlightenments: Historical Insights from Digitized Books Spanning Three Centuries
Ravallion, Martin - In: Poverty & Public Policy 3 (2011) 2, pp. 2-2
<p>Word searches of <em>Google</em>’s library of digitized books suggest that there have been two “Poverty Enlightenments†since 1700, one near the end of the 18th century and the second near the end of the 20th. The historical literature suggests that only the second came with a widespread...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224802
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738813
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Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
Ravallion, Martin - eSocialSciences - 2010
There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain from trade openness, as one aspect of ‘globalization’. The paper views the issue through both ‘macro’ and ‘micro’ empirical lenses. The macro lens uses cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752770
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Intergenerational Mobility and Interpersonal Inequality in an African Economy
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Walle, Dominique Van de - HAL - 2014
inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that … of women. Male-dominated bequests of land and housing bring little gain to consumption and play little role in explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738725
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604328
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Intergenerational Mobility and Interpersonal Inequality in an African Economy
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2014
inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that … of women. Male-dominated bequests of land and housing bring little gain to consumption and play little role in explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904607
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Intergenerational mobility and interpersonal inequality in an African economy
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; van de Walle, Dominique - In: Journal of Development Economics 110 (2014) C, pp. 327-344
intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that … and greater economic activity of women. Male-dominated bequests of land and housing bring little gain to consumption and … play little role in explaining inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010931718