Documents et rapports
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Migrants as Social Protection ? Simulations of a Market for Work Permits (anglais)
Workers have the right to take up any job offer in their country of citizenship but not to rent out that right. This paper shows that relaxing this restriction using a two-sided competitive market in work...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11017 Date du document: 7 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Quy-Toan Do,Michael M. Lokshin,Ravallion,Martin
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The Social Protection Engel Curve (anglais)
Why do richer countries spend a higher share of their income on social protection than poor countries? A newly assembled dataset on social protection spending for 142 countries since 1995 allows an exploration...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 186401 Date du document: 8 août 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lokshin,Michael M.,Ravallion,Martin,Torre,Ivan
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Is Social Protection a Luxury Good ? (anglais)
The claim that social protection is a luxury good—with a national income elasticity exceeding unity—has been influential. The paper tests the “luxury good hypothesis” using newly-assembled data on social...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10174 Date du document: 13 septembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lokshin,Michael M.,Ravallion,Martin,Torre,Ivan
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Would Mexican Migrants be Willing to Guarantee Americans a Basic Income ? (anglais)
The paper simulates a double-sided competitive market in temporary work permits between the U.S. and Mexico. Eligible working-age Americans would have the option of renting out their implicit work permits...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9708 Date du document: 22 juin 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lokshin,Michael M.,Ravallion,Martin
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Scarred but Wiser : World War 2's COVID Legacy (anglais)
The paper formalizes and tests the hypothesis that greater exposure to big shocks induces stronger societal responses for adaptation and protection from future big shocks. Support for this hypothesis is...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9481 Date du document: 24 novembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lokshin,Michael M.,Kolchin,Vladimir,Ravallion,Martin
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The Missing Market for Work Permits (anglais)
Citizens have a right to accept any job offer in their country, but that right is not marketable or automatically extended to foreigners. Yet, some citizens have useful things to do if they could rent...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9005 Date du document: 12 septembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lokshin,Michael M.,Ravallion,Martin
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Welfare-consistent global poverty measures (anglais)
The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also acknowledge a deep identification problem when the latent norms defining poverty vary...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8170 Date du document: 24 août 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ravallion,Martin,Chen,Shaohua
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Are poor individuals mainly found in poor households ? evidence using nutrition data for Africa (anglais)
Antipoverty policies in developing countries often assume that targeting poor households will be reasonably effective in reaching poor individuals. This paper questions this assumption, using nutritional...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8001 Date du document: 9 mars 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brown,Caitlin Susan,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique
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For India's rural poor, growing towns matter more than growing cities (anglais)
It is theoretically ambiguous whether growth of cities matters more to the rural poor than growth of towns. This paper empirically examines whether growth of India's secondary towns or big cities mattered...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7994 Date du document: 6 mars 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gibson,John,Datt,Gaurav,Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin
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For India’s rural poor, growing towns matter more than growing cities (anglais)
It is theoretically ambiguous whether growth of cities matters more to the rural poor than growth of towns. This paper empirically examines whether growth of India’s secondary towns or big cities mattered...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125650 Date du document: 1 mars 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gibson,John,Datt,Gaurav,Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin
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The World Bank Economic Review 31 (2) (anglais)
The World Bank Economic Review is a professional journal used for the dissemination of research in development economics broadly relevant to the development profession and to the World Bank in pursuing...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 140496 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio,Leslie, Heather M.,Mack-Crane, Austen,Nagavarapu,Sriniketh Suryasesha,Reddy, Sheila M.W.,Sievanen. Leila,Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar,Cunha,Barbara,Trezzi,Riccardo,Bas,Maria,Berthou, Antoine,Van De Walle,Dominique,Ravallion,Martin,Mendiratta,Vibhuti,Koolwal,Gayatri B.,Diao,Xinshen,Harttgen,Kenneth,Mcmillan,Margaret S.,Wydick,Bruce W.,Glewwe,Paul W.,Rutledge, Laine,Rijkers,Bob,Baghdadi Ep Montassar,Leila,Raballand,Gael J. R. F.,Mu,Ren,Du,Yang,Gibson,John,Le,Trinh,Kim, Bonggeun,Beasley,Elizabeth Ruth,Huillery,Elise,Bell,Clive L.G.,Mejia,Daniel,Restrepo,Pascual,Rozo Villarraga,Sandra Viviana
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Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India (anglais)
The authors know surprisingly little about the long-run impacts of household electrification. This paper studies the impacts on consumption in rural India over a seventeen-year period, allowing for both...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 140526 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Van De Walle,Dominique,Ravallion,Martin,Mendiratta,Vibhuti,Koolwal,Gayatri B.
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A poor means test ? econometric targeting in Africa (anglais)
Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on chosen...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7915 Date du document: 13 décembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brown,Caitlin Susan,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique
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Growth, urbanization, and poverty reduction in India (anglais)
Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7568 Date du document: 17 février 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Datt,Gaurav,Ravallion,Martin,Murgai,Rinku
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Growth, urbanization, and poverty reduction in India (anglais)
Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125504 Date du document: 1 février 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Datt,Gaurav,Ravallion,Martin,Murgai,Rinku
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Is workfare cost-effective against poverty in a poor labor-surplus economy (anglais)
Workfare has often seemed an attractive option for making self-targeted transfers to poor people. But is this incentive argument strong enough in practice to prefer unproductive workfare to even untargeted...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 129197 Date du document: 5 août 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique
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Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program (anglais)
This brief summarizes the updates from the 2013 paper entitled, Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program, conducted between between 2009 and 2010 in India. The study observed...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 90356 Date du document: 2 septembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva, Margai, Rinku
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Right to work? : assessing India's employment guarantee scheme in Bihar (anglais)
In 2006, India embarked on an ambitious attempt to fight poverty by attempting to introduce a wage floor in a setting in which many unskilled workers earn less than the minimum wage. The 2005 national...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 85414 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique
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The world bank economic review 28 (3) (anglais)
This paper is organized in following headings: can we trust shoestring evaluations?; evaluation of development programs: randomized controlled trials or regressions?; effects of Colombia’s social protection...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 113050 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ravallion,Martin,Elbers,Chris T.M.,Gunning,Jan Willem,Camacho,Adriana,Conover,Emily,Hoyos,Alejandro,Fitzsimons,Emla Olivia Anne,Mesnard,Alice,Desai,Raj M.,Joshi,Shareen,Gajate-Garrido,Gissele,Blanc,Elodie,Strobl,Eric
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Can subjective questions on economic welfare be trusted ? evidence for three developing countries (anglais)
While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods can be deceptive given systematic heterogeneity in respondents' scales. Little is...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6726 Date du document: 1 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beegle,Kathleen G.,Kastelic,Kristen Himelein,Ravallion,Martin