It draws on more than 200 household surveys for about 90 countries representing more than 90 percent of the population in the developing world (Ravallion, Chen, and Sangraula, 2007). Our findings show ...

World Bank researchers have developed new poverty measures that take social effects on welfare seriously (Ravallion and Chen, 2011). Technically, these are called “weakly relative” measures, meaning ...

[4] The lack of reliability inherent in the World Bank’s methodology is evident in a 2010 declaration by Martin Ravallion, one of the Bank’s main experts on the issue of poverty: ‘The latest ...

Before we set the goal, we should fix the goalposts. 1 Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion, “The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty.” ...

The use of PPPs in the measurement of regional and global inequality and to measure regional and global poverty is presented and in part reviews the work of Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion and ...

Growth Incidence Curve (GIC): The Growth Incidence Curve is a conceptually useful tool to analyze the impact of aggregate economic growth over a wide range of the distribution (Ravallion and Chen, ...

Productivity, Health, and Inequality in the Intrahousehold Distribution of Food in Low-Income Countries. The American Economic Review 80(5): 1139-1156. Ravallion, M., and Wodon, Q. (2000). Does Child ...

Pearson Australia: Frenchs Forest, N. S. W. Cartwright, N and J. Hardie (2012) Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better, Oxford University Press Ravallion, M. (2009) Should the ...