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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 …. Second, development thinking is in a state of flux and uncertainty; it is time to reconsider both the Bank’s research … grounded in the key knowledge gaps for development policy emerging from the experiences of developing countries, including the …

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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...

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Should the Randomistas Rule?

Ravallion, Martin - In: The Economists' Voice 6 (2009) 2, pp. 6-6

Social experiments are not the only, or even the best, way of addressing the key policy questions faced in the fight against poverty according to Martin Ravallion, the director of the Word Bank's research department.

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External Supervision Support for Enhancing Quality in Primary Education

Ushadevi, M D; Ravallion, Martin - Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) - 2001

what extent this function plays an enabling role in facilitating the task of quality improvement in primary education. On … the basis of content analysis of the data from the official records of four Block Education Offices located in Karnataka …

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