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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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Opportunity-sensitive poverty measurement
Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco; Lugo, Maria Ana; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829672
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More relatively-poor people in a less absolutely-poor world
Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
Relative deprivation, shame and social exclusion can matter to the welfare of people everywhere. The authors argue that such social effects on welfare call for a reconsideration of how we assess global poverty, but they do not support standard measures of relative poverty. The paper argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555548
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The income lever and the allocation of aid
Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
The paper develops a concept and a measure of the monetary capacity of a country to reduce its own poverty and shows how these tools can be used to guide budget allocations or the allocation of aid. The authors call this concept the income lever. Making use of tax and distributive theory, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610348
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A comparative perspective on poverty reduction in Brazil, China and India
Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
; at the outset of the reform process there were ample distortions to remove and relatively low inequality in access to the … opportunities so created, though inequality has risen markedly since. By concentrating such opportunities in the hands of the better … inequality, China might learn from Brazil's success with such policies. India needs to do more to assure that poor people are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469000
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The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty
Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what"poverty"means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004982029
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The unfairness of (poverty) targets
Allwine, Melanie; Rigolini, Jamele; Lopez-Calva, Luis F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
conditions in terms of poverty and inequality levels. This paper presents a framework to quantify how much initial conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010614875
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Poverty and inequality maps for rural Vietnam: an application of small area estimation
Cuong, Nguyen Viet; Truong, Tran Ngoc; van der Weide, Roy - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2010
The objective of the paper is to update the small area estimates of poverty and inequality for rural Vietnam. The new … inequality in 2006 have seen above average poverty reductions. The authors consider both expenditure and income based measures of … poverty and inequality, and find the results to be very similar. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677550
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The two poverty enlightenments: historical insights from digitized books spanning three centuries
Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
Word searches of Google'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 belief that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800204
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Who remained in poverty, who moved up, and who fell down ? an investigation of poverty dynamics in Senegal in the late 2000s
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter F.; Swinkels, Robertus … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Poverty estimates based on cross-section data provide static snapshots of poverty rates. Although a time series of cross-section data can offer some insights into poverty trends, it does not allow for an assessment of dynamics at the household level. Such a dynamic perspective on poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011202211