Kaushik Basu, Ambar Narayan, Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
The geographic location of banks’ branches is used to test whether they are responding to unexploited gains from nonfarm rural development in Bangladesh. The branch locations of Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank are compared with those of traditional banks. The potential gains from switching out of farming ...
Martin Ravallion
Standard policy advice at times of fiscal adjustment is to protect public spending on the poor. However, the political economy of fiscal adjustment could well indicate the opposite direction, to protect the non‐poor from adjustment. This point is illustrated by three case studies based on research o...
Martin Ravallion
The arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh is challenging from a number of perspectives. Counting Bangladesh's poor is difficult to do with seemingly tolerable precision, even just to get some idea of whether recent efforts to alleviate poverty have succeeded. But that is only the beginning of the chal...
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
No AccessPolicy Research Working Papers21 Jun 2013Evaluating a Targeted Social Program When Placement Is DecentralizedAuthors/Editors: Martin Ravallion, Quentin WodonMartin Ravallion, Quentin Wodonhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-1945SectionsAboutPDF (0.1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload Citations...
Martin Ravallion
Measurement problemshave confounded recent attempts to assess Bangladesh's progress in reducing poverty. The issues at stake, though poorly understood, are common in poverty measurement. The authors review the issues, recommend an operational approach to resolving them with available data, and prese...
Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
Ravallion and Wodon assess whether the placement of when measuring the potential gains from switching out bank branches in Bangladesh responds to unexploited of farming. potential for nonfarm rural development.
Martin Ravallion
Using new data and a different model, Palmer‐Jones [1993] has questioned the conclusions of Boyce and Ravallion [1991] concerning the evolution over time of agricultural wages in Bangladesh. I argue that Palmer‐Jones's model is unconvincing and that the main conclusions of Boyce and Ravallion are fa...
Martin Ravallion, Kaushik Basu, Ambar Narayan
December 1999: Yes - and more efficiently by women than by men, according to this analysis of household survey data for Bangladesh. An illiterate adult earns significantly more in the nonfarm economy when living in a household with at least one literate member. According to theory, a member of a col...
Kaushik Basu, Ravi Kanbur
Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a tolerant and democratic polity....
Martin Ravallion
Transfers to the rural land-poor are widely advocated and used in attempts to reduce rural poverty. Such transfers are believed to be productive, in that the final gain to the poor exceeds the initial transfer. The evidence cited most often to support this view is the negative correlation between ou...
Jaromír Harmáček, Miroslav Syrovátka, Martin Schlossárek, Petr Pavlík
The paper analyzes the theory and construction of four indicators of pro-poor growth and applies them to Bangladesh over two time periods, 2000-2005 and 2005-2010. The following indicators were used: pro-poor growth index (Kakwani and Pernia, 2000), poverty equivalent growth rate (Kakwani and Son, 2...
Kaushik Basu, Ambar Narayan, Martin Ravallion
A member of a collective-action household may or may not share knowledge with others in that household. Shared income gains from shared knowledge may well be offset by a shift in the balance of power within the family. Using household survey data for Bangladesh we find strong external effects of edu...
L. Alan Winters, Scott Rozelle, Will Martín, Martin Ravallion et al.
Trade policy and poverty reduction in Brazil by Glenn W Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr, and Angelo Gurgel; Trade liberalization and industry wage structure: evidence from Brazil by Nina Pavcnik, Andreas Blom, Pinelopi Goldberg; and Norbert Schady; Lobbying, counterlobbying, and the st...