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Looking beyond averages in the trade and poverty debate

Ravallion, Martin - 2005

reforms with well-designed social protection policies. – trade ; globalization ; poverty ; inequality ; China ; Morocco …

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Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate

Ravallion, Martin - 2016

There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain from trade openness, as one aspect of globalization. Ravallion views the issue through both macro and micro empirical lenses. The macro lens uses cross-country comparisons and aggregate time series data. The micro...

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Who wants Safer Streets? Explaining Concern for Public Safety in Brazil

Pradhan, Menno; Ravallion, Martin - 2001

safety at given own-income. Theown-income effect is nonlinear, such that inequality attenuates the aggregate concern for …

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Inequality and poverty when effort matters

Ravallion, Martin - In: Econometrics 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-19

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

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Is it what you inherited or what you learnt? Intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal

Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2011

land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …