Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
It is often argued that child labour comes at the expense of schooling and so perpetuates poverty for children from poor families. To test this claim we study the effects on children's labour force participation and school enrollments of the pure school-price change induced by a targeted enrollment ...
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
RavalCion and Wodon try to determine whether children reduction in the incidence of child labor among boys seln to work in rural Bangladesh are caught in a poverty (girls) represents about one-quarter (one-eighth) of the trap, with the extra incorne to poor families from child increase in their scho...
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
Anti‐poverty programs often target poor areas even when there is seemingly free migration. Should such programs focus instead on households with personal attributes that foster poverty, no matter where they live? Possibly not; there may be “hidden” constraints on mobility, or location may reveal oth...
Quentin Wodon
Past estimates of poverty in Bangladesh based on the food energy intake method found decreasing poverty over time and similar poverty in urban and rural areas. Using the cost of basic needs method, we find increasing poverty for 1984-92 and higher poverty in rural than urban areas. Examples of lack ...
Quentin Wodon
Using in a consistent way the household level data of five successive national surveys, this paper analyses at once the microdeterminants (and changes thereof) of consumption, poverty, growth, and inequality in Bangladesh from 1983 to 1996. Education, demographics, land ownership, occupation, and ge...
Quentin Wodon
Preliminary; not to be quoted Most of the empirical work on the impact of growth on poverty and inequality has been based on international panel data sets. Yet panels can also be used within a single country provided the analysis is carried out at the regional level. This is shown for Bangladesh, wh...
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon, World Bank
Instead of targeting poor areas, should poverty programs target households with personal attributes that foster poverty, no matter where they live? Possibly not. There may be hidden constraints on mobility, or location may reveal otherwise hidden householdattributes. Using survey data for Bangladesh...
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
possible through a long term collaborative effort between the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the World Bank’s South Asia Region. The paper was prepared as an input to World Bank (1998). The support of the World Bank’s Research Committee (und...
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 ...
Quentin Wodon
No AccessPolicy Research Working Papers21 Jun 2013Microdeterminants of Consumption, Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in BangladeshAuthors/Editors: Quentin T. WodonQuentin T. Wodonhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-2076SectionsAboutPDF (0.2 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations Sha...
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...
Quentin Wodon
No AccessPolicy Research Working Papers25 Jun 2013Growth, Poverty, and Inequality: A Regional PanelAuthors/Editors: Quentin T. WodonQuentin T. Wodonhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-2072SectionsAboutPDF (0.2 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abs...
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.
Quentin Wodon
\nThe most labour-intensive task in building a poverty profile consists in the estimation of the poverty lines. Does it matter whether poverty lines are estimated for the urban and rural sectors as a whole or by geographical area within each sector? Using a decomposition of the Gini index of inequal...
Quentin Woden
Two extensions to Yitzhaki and Lermanos group decomposition of the Gini index are derived and applied to data from Bangladesh to analyze how inequality is affected by education, occupation, and land ownership - and to estimate the impact of group-targeted transfers on the whole population. Wodon pro...