Books by Martin Ravallion

Poverty Comparisions
Poverty Comparisions
2017
The developing world's bulging
The developing world's bulging (but vulnerable) "middle class"
2009
Weakly relative poverty
Weakly relative poverty
2009
Land in Transition
Land in Transition
2008
Does rising landlessness signa
Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition?
2006
A poverty-inequality trade-off
A poverty-inequality trade-off?
2005
Evaluating anti-poverty progra
Evaluating anti-poverty programs
2005
Inequality is bad for the poor
Inequality is bad for the poor
2005
On the contribution of demogra
On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
2005
Who cares about relative depri
Who cares about relative deprivation ?
2005
Competing concepts of inequali
Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate
2004
Looking beyond averages in the
Looking beyond averages in the trade and poverty debate
2004
Pro-poor growth
Pro-poor growth
2004
Household welfare impacts of C
Household welfare impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization
2003
Land allocation in Vietnam's a
Land allocation in Vietnam's agrarian transition
2003
On measuring aggregate "social
On measuring aggregate "social efficiency"
2003
Targeted transfers in poor cou
Targeted transfers in poor countries
2003
The debate on globalization, p
The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality
2003
Externalities in rural develop
Externalities in rural development
2002
Breaking up the collective far
Breaking up the collective farm
2001
Do workfare participants recov
Do workfare participants recover quickly from retrenchment?
2001
Inequality convergence
Inequality convergence
2001
Measuring aggregate welfare in
Measuring aggregate welfare in developing countries
2001
Measuring pro-poor growth
Measuring pro-poor growth
2001
On the urbanization of poverty
On the urbanization of poverty
2001
Are the poor protected from bu
Are the poor protected from budget cuts?
2000
Is more targeting consistent w
Is more targeting consistent with less spending?
1999
Monitoring targeting performan
Monitoring targeting performance when decentralized allocations to the poor are unobserved
1999
The mystery of the vanishing b
The mystery of the vanishing benefits
1999
Who wants to redistribute?
Who wants to redistribute?
1999
Appraising workfare programs
Appraising workfare programs
1998
Evaluating a targeted social p
Evaluating a targeted social program when placement is decentralized
1998
Poverty lines in theory and practice
Poverty lines in theory and practice
1998
Reaching poor areas in a feder
Reaching poor areas in a federal system
1998
When economic reform is faster
When economic reform is faster than statistical reform
1998
Can high-inequality developing
Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?
1997
Does child labor displace scho
Does child labor displace schooling?
1997
Poor areas, or only poor peopl
Poor areas, or only poor people?
1997
Famines and economics
Famines and economics
1996
Issues in measuring and modeli
Issues in measuring and modeling poverty
1996
What can new survey data tell
What can new survey data tell us about recent changes in distribution and poverty?
1996
Growth and poverty in rural In
Growth and poverty in rural India
1995
How important to India's poor
How important to India's poor is the urban-rural composition of growth?
1994
Impacts on rural poverty of la
Impacts on rural poverty of land-based targeting
1994
When method matters
When method matters
1994
Poverty Comparisons
Poverty Comparisons
1992
Does undernutrition respond to
Does undernutrition respond to incomes and prices?
1991
Growth and redistribution comp
Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures
1991
Higher wages for relief work c
Higher wages for relief work can make many of the poor worse off
1991
On hunger and public action
On hunger and public action
1991
Quantifying the magnitude and
Quantifying the magnitude and severity of absolute poverty in the developing world in the mid-1980s
1991
The challenging arithmetic of
The challenging arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh
1991
Reaching the poor through rural public employment
Reaching the poor through rural public employment
1990
Cost-of-living differences bet
Cost-of-living differences between urban and rural areas in Indonesia
1989
Do price increases for staple
Do price increases for staple foods help or hurt the rural poor?
1989
Is undernutrition responsive t
Is undernutrition responsive to changes in incomes?
1989
Poverty and undernutrition in
Poverty and undernutrition in Indonesia during the 1980s
1989
Poverty ordering of food prici
Poverty ordering of food pricing reforms
1988
Market responses to anti-hunge
Market responses to anti-hunger policies
1987
Markets and famines
Markets and famines
1987
The poverty cost of welfare va
The poverty cost of welfare variability
1987