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Working Papers

2011

1. Is it what you inherited or what you learnt ? Intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
2. On multidimensional indices of poverty
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Inequality (2011)
3. The two poverty enlightenments: historical insights from digitized books spanning three centuries
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2010

4. Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
   Working Papers, eSocialSciences
   Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2004) View citations (3)
   Working Papers, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) (2005) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article in World Development (2006)
5. Mashup indices of development
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
6. On measuring scientific influence
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
7. Poverty lines across the world
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
8. Price levels and economic growth: making sense of the PPP changes between ICP rounds
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
9. The World Bank's publication record
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
10. Troubling tradeoffs in the Human Development Index
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
11. Têm os Países mais Pobres menos Capacidade de Redistribuição?
    One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
12. ¿Los Países Más Pobres Tienen Menos Capacidad de Redistribución?
    One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth

2009

13. A Pobreza Global Reavaliada: Uma Réplica a Reddy
    One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
14. A comparative perspective on poverty reduction in Brazil, China and India
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
15. Definindo o Crescimento Pró-Pobres: uma Resposta para Kakwani
    One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
16. Designing impact evaluations: different perspectives
    3ie Working papers, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
17. Do Poorer Countries Have Less Capacity for Redistribution?
    One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth View citations (2)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2009) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Globalization and Development (2010)
18. Définition de la croissance favorable aux pauvres: une Réponse Nanak Kakwani
    One Pager French, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
19. Frame-of-reference bias in subjective welfare regressions
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
20. Hacia una Definición de Crecimiento Económico Favorable a los Pobres: una Respuesta a Kakwani
    One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
21. Has India's economic growth become more pro-poor in the wake of economic reforms ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2011)
22. Nueva Evaluación de la Pobreza Mundial: una Respuesta a Reddy
    One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
23. The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) "Middle Class"
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
    See also Journal Article in World Development (2010)
24. The pattern of growth and poverty reduction in China
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Comparative Economics (2010)
25. Weakly relative poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
26. Why don't we see poverty convergence ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)

2008

27. Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas ? Evidence from rural China
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
28. Are there lessons for africa from China's success against poverty ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in World Development (2009)
29. Bailing out the world's poorest
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in Challenge (2009)
30. China is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
31. Dollar a day revisited
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (19)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2009)
32. Evaluation in the practice of development
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Research Observer (2009)
33. Global Poverty Reassessed: A Reply to Reddy
    One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth View citations (1)
34. Global poverty and inequality: a review of the evidence
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (10)
35. On the welfarist rationale for relative poverty lines
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
36. Qual Linha de Pobreza? Uma Resposta a Reddy
    One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
37. Quel Seuil de Pauvreté? Une Réponse à Reddy
    One Pager French, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
38. The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (12)
    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2010)
39. Which Poverty Line? A Response to Reddy
    One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
40. ¿Cual Línea de Pobreza? Una Respuesta a Reddy
    One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth

2007

41. A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Human Development
    Research Unit Working Papers, Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA View citations (1)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2007)
42. Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981-2004
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (18)
43. Economic growth and poverty reduction: Do poor countries need to worry about inequality?
    2020 vision briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
44. Geographic inequity in a decentralized anti-poverty program: a case study of China
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
45. How relevant is targeting to the success of an antipoverty program ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
46. New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (52)
    See also Journal Article in Population and Development Review (2007)
47. Poverty reduction without economic growth ? explaining Brazil's poverty dynamics, 1985-2004
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2010)
48. The changing profile of poverty in the world
    2020 vision briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (1)

2006

49. Di Bao: a guaranteed minimum income in urban China?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
50. Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2008)
51. Partially awakened giants: uneven growth in China and India
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (12)

2005

52. A poverty-inequality trade-off?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Inequality (2005)
53. An econometric method of correcting for unit nonresponse bias in surveys
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2007)
54. Evaluating anti-poverty programs
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (23)
    See also Chapter (2008)
55. Inequality is bad for the poor
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
56. Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
57. Lasting local impacts of an economywide crisis
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
58. On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
59. Searching for the economic gradient in self-assessed health
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
60. Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Inequality (2006)
61. Who cares about relative deprivation ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (14)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2010)

2004

62. China's (uneven) progress against poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (40)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2007)
63. Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (33)
64. Defining pro-poor growth: a response to Kakwani
    One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth View citations (4)
65. Gainers and losers from trade reform in Morocco
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (33)
66. How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (39)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Research Observer (2004)
67. Pro-poor growth: A primer
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (40)

2003

68. Externalities in Rural Development: Evidence for China
    Working Papers, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (3)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2002) View citations (4)
69. Household welfare impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
70. In measuring aggregate"social efficiency"
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Economic Development and Cultural Change (2005)
71. Land allocation in Vietnam's agrarian transition
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (11)
72. On the utility consistency of poverty lines
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
73. Social protection in a crisis - Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (22)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2004)
74. Survey compliance and the distribution of income
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (15)
75. Targeted transfers in poor countries: revisiting the trade-offs and policy options
    Social Protection Discussion Papers, The World Bank View citations (10)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2003) View citations (5)
76. The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality: why measurement matters
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (30)
    See also Journal Article in QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2004)

2002

77. Household Income Dynamics in Rural China
    Working Papers, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (1)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2001) View citations (23)
78. Is India's economic growth leaving the poor behind?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (32)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Perspectives (2002)
79. Rich and powerful? Subjective power and welfare in Russia
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2005)

2001

80. Assisting the transition from workfare to work: a randomized experiment
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article in Industrial and Labor Relations Review (2004)
81. Breaking up the collective farm: welfare outcomes of Vietnam's massive land privatization
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
82. Do workfare participants recover quickly from retrenchment?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
83. Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (23)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2003)
84. Growth, inequality, and poverty: looking beyond averages
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (125)
    See also Journal Article in World Development (2001)
85. Inequality convergence
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2003)
86. Is inequality bad for business: a non-linear microeconomic model of wealth effects on self-employment
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
87. Measuring aggregate welfare in developing countries - How well do national accounts and surveys agree?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2003)
88. Measuring pro-poor growth
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (77)
    See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2003)
89. On the urbanization of poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2002)
90. Wealth Distribution and Self-Employment in a Developing Economy
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (8)

2000

91. Are the poor protected from budget cuts? theory and evidence for Argentina
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
92. Distributional outcomes of a decentralized welfare program
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)
93. Estimating the Benefit Incidence of an Antipoverty Program by Propensity Score Matching
    Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers, Econometric Society View citations (28)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (2003)
94. How did the world's poorest fare in the 1990s ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (29)
    See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (2001)
95. Identifying welfare effects from subjective questions
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article in Economica (2001)
96. Short-lived shocks with long-lived impacts? - household income dynamics in a transition economy
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (12)
97. What can we learn about country performance from conditional comparisons across countries?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)

1999

98. Demand for public safety
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
99. Does child labor displace schooling? - evidence on behavioral responses to an enrollment subsidy
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (84)
    See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2000)
100. Income gains to the poor from workfare - estimates for Argentina's TRABAJAR Program
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (20)
101. Is knowledge shared within households?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
102. Is more targeting consistent with less spending?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (10)
     See also Journal Article in International Tax and Public Finance (1999)
103. Protecting the poor from macroeconomic shocks
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
104. Subjective economic welfare
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (16)
105. Themystery of the vanishing benefits: Ms. Speedy Analyst's introduction to evaluation
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
106. When is growth pro-poor? Evidence from the diverse experiences of India's states
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (29)
107. Who wants to redistribute? Russia's tunnel effect in the 1990's
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

1998

108. Appraising workfare programs
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
109. Behavioral responses to risk in rural China
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2001)
110. Benefit incidence and the timing of program capture
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
111. Determinants of transient and chronic poverty: evidence from rural China
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
112. Evaluating a targeted social program when placement is decentralized
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
113. Farm productivity and rural poverty in India
     FCND discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (52)
     See also Journal Article in The Journal of Development Studies (1998)
114. Geographic Poverty Traps?
     Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development View citations (63)
115. Measuring poverty using qualitative perceptions of welfare
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
116. Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice
     Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (47)
117. Reaching poor areas in a federal system
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
118. When economic reform is faster than statistical reform - measuring and explaining inequality in rural China
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (10)

1997

119. Are the poor less well-insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (33)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (1999)
120. Banking on the poor? Branch placement and nonfarm rural development in Bangladesh
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
121. Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (70)
     See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (1997)
122. Poor areas, or only poor people?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (47)
123. Why have some Indian states performed better than others at reducing rural poverty?
     FCND discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (7)

1996

124. Are there dynamic gains from a poor-area development program?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1998)
125. Comparaisons de la Pauverte. Concepts et methodes
     Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (1)
126. Equity and growth in developing countries: old and new perspectives on the policy issues
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (81)
127. Famines and economics
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Literature (1997)
128. Issues in measuring and modeling poverty
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (24)
     See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (1996)
129. Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring
     FCND discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (3)
130. Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring: a case study for India
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
     See also Journal Article in Review of Development Economics (1997)
131. Transient poverty in rural China
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
132. What can new survey data tell us about recent changes in distribution and poverty?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (23)
     See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (1997)
133. Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
     See also Journal Article in Economica (1998)

1995

134. Decomposing social indicators using distributional data
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (1997)
135. Growth and poverty in rural India
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)

1994

136. How important to India's poor is the urban - rural composition of growth?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
137. How land-based targeting affects rural poverty
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
138. Poverty and household size
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (11)
     See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (1995)
139. When method matters: toward a resolution of the debate about Bangladesh's poverty measures
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)

1993

140. How robust is a poverty profile?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
     See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (1994)
141. Is poverty increasing in the developing world?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (30)
     See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (1994)
142. Poverty and policy
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (122)
     See also Chapter (1995)

1992

143. Poverty Comparisons - A Guide to Concepts and Methods
     Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (95)

1991

144. Does undernutrition respond to incomes and prices? dominance tests for indonesia
     Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement
     See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (1992)
145. Growth and Redistribution Components of Changes in Poverty Measures
     Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (25)
146. Higher wages for relief work can make many of the poor worse off: recent evidence from Maharashtra's"Employment Guarantee Scheme"
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
147. On hunger and public action
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
148. Quantifying the magnitude and severity of absolute poverty in the developing world in the mid-1980s
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
149. The challenging arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)

1990

150. REACHING THE POOR THROUGH RURAL PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT; A SURVEY OF THEORY AND EVIDENCE
     World Bank - Discussion Papers, World Bank View citations (1)
151. Regional disparities, targeting, and poverty in India
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (43)
152. The sectoral structure of poverty during an adjustment period: evidence for Indonesia in the mid-1980s
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
     See also Journal Article in World Development (1991)

1989

153. Cost of living differences between urban and rural areas in Indonesia
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
154. Do price increases for staple foods help or hurt the rural poor?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
155. Is undernutrition responsive to changes in incomes?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
156. Poverty and undernutrition in Indonesia during the 1980s
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
157. Reciprocity Without Commitment: Characterization and Performance of Informal Risk-Sharing Arrangements
     Working Papers, Warwick - Development Economics Research Centre View citations (9)

Journal Articles

2011

1. Has India's Economic Growth Become More Pro-Poor in the Wake of Economic Reforms?
   World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25, (2), 157-189 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper (2009)
2. On multidimensional indices of poverty
   Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9, (2), 235-248 View citations (8)
   See also Working Paper (2011)

2010

3. A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of Aggregate Human Development Outcomes
   Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72, (2), 119-145 View citations (1)
4. Do Poorer Countries Have Less Capacity for Redistribution?
   Journal of Globalization and Development, 2010, 1, (2), 1 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper (2009)
5. Poverty reduction without economic growth?: Explaining Brazil's poverty dynamics, 1985-2004
   Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 93, (1), 20-36 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper (2007)
6. The Developing World Is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010, 125, (4), 1577-1625 View citations (21)
   See also Working Paper (2008)
7. The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) Middle Class
   World Development, 2010, 38, (4), 445-454
   See also Working Paper (2009)
8. The pattern of growth and poverty reduction in China
   Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38, (1), 2-16 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper (2009)
9. Understanding PPPs and PPP-Based National Accounts: Comment
   American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2, (4), 46-52 View citations (4)
10. Who cares about relative deprivation?
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 73, (2), 171-185 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper (2005)

2009

11. Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success Against Poverty?
    World Development, 2009, 37, (2), 303-313 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper (2008)
12. Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas?
    Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, (3-4), 512-528 View citations (6)
13. Bailing Out the World's Poorest
    Challenge, 2009, 52, (2), 55-80
    See also Working Paper (2008)
14. Dollar a Day Revisited
    World Bank Economic Review, 2009, 23, (2), 163-184 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper (2008)
15. Evaluating three stylised interventions
    The Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2009, 1, (3), 227-236
16. Evaluation in the Practice of Development
    World Bank Research Observer, 2009, 24, (1), 29-53 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper (2008)
17. Should the Randomistas Rule?
    The Economists' Voice, 2009, 6, (2), 6 View citations (7)

2008

18. Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition?
    Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 87, (2), 191-209
    See also Working Paper (2006)
19. Miss-targeted or miss-measured?
    Economics Letters, 2008, 100, (1), 9-12
20. Testing for an economic gradient in health status using subjective data
    Health Economics, 2008, 17, (11), 1237-1259 View citations (5)

2007

21. "Achieving Child-Health-Related Millennium Development Goals: The Role of Infrastructure"--A Comment
    World Development, 2007, 35, (5), 920-928 View citations (1)
22. An econometric method of correcting for unit nonresponse bias in surveys
    Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 136, (1), 213-235 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper (2005)
23. China's (uneven) progress against poverty
    Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 82, (1), 1-42 View citations (72)
    See also Working Paper (2004)
24. Lasting Impacts of Indonesia’s Financial Crisis
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 56, 27-56 View citations (5)
25. New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty
    Population and Development Review, 2007, 33, (4), 667-701 View citations (31)
    See also Working Paper (2007)

2006

26. Land Reallocation in an Agrarian Transition
    Economic Journal, 2006, 116, (514), 924-942 View citations (4)
27. Looking beyond averages in the trade and poverty debate
    World Development, 2006, 34, (8), 1374-1392 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper (2010)
28. Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income
    Journal of Economic Inequality, 2006, 4, (1), 33-55 View citations (18)
    See also Working Paper (2005)
29. TESTING POVERTY LINES
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2006, 52, (3), 399-421 View citations (5)
30. The Wealth Effect on New Business Startups in a Developing Economy
    Economica, 2006, 73, (291), 367-392 View citations (11)

2005

31. A poverty-inequality trade off?
    Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3, (2), 169-181 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper (2005)
32. Decentralized targeting of an antipoverty program
    Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (4), 705-727 View citations (83)
33. Hidden impact? Household saving in response to a poor-area development project
    Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (11-12), 2183-2204 View citations (13)
34. On Measuring Aggregate "Social Efficiency."
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 53, (2), 273-92 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
35. Rich and powerful?: Subjective power and welfare in Russia
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2005, 56, (2), 141-172 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper (2002)
36. What Can Ex-Participants Reveal about a Program’s Impact?
    Journal of Human Resources, 2005, 40, (1) View citations (16)

2004

37. Assisting the transition from workfare to work: A randomized experiment
    Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2004, 58, (1), 128-142 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
38. Breaking up the collective farms
    The Economics of Transition, 2004, 12, (2), 201-236 View citations (9)
39. Household Income Dynamics in Two Transition Economies
    Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 2004, 8, (3), 4 View citations (21)
40. How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?
    World Bank Research Observer, 2004, 19, (2), 141-169 View citations (42)
    See also Working Paper (2004)
41. Social Protection in a Crisis: Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas
    World Bank Economic Review, 2004, 18, (3), 367-399 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
42. The Debate on Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: why Measurement Matters
    QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, 2004, (1) View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
43. Welfare Impacts of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization
    World Bank Economic Review, 2004, 18, (1), 29-57 View citations (29)
44. Who is protected from budget cuts?
    Journal of Policy Reform, 2004, 7, (2), 109-122 View citations (2)

2003

45. Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India?
    Journal of Econometrics, 2003, 112, (1), 153-173 View citations (77)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
46. Estimating the Benefit Incidence of an Antipoverty Program by Propensity-Score Matching
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2003, 21, (1), 19-30 View citations (23)
    See also Working Paper (2000)
47. Inequality convergence
    Economics Letters, 2003, 80, (3), 351-356 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
48. Measuring Aggregate Welfare in Developing Countries: How Well Do National Accounts and Surveys Agree?
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85, (3), 645-652 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
49. Measuring pro-poor growth
    Economics Letters, 2003, 78, (1), 93-99 View citations (120)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
50. Who wants safer streets? Explaining concern for public safety in Brazil
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2003, 24, (1), 17-33 View citations (3)

2002

51. Are the Poor Protected from Budget Cuts? Evidence for Argentina
    Journal of Applied Economics, 2002, V, 95-121 View citations (2)
52. Is India's Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind?
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002, 16, (3), 89-108 View citations (58)
    See also Working Paper (2002)
53. On the urbanization of poverty
    Journal of Development Economics, 2002, 68, (2), 435-442 View citations (18)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
54. Self-rated economic welfare in Russia
    European Economic Review, 2002, 46, (8), 1453-1473 View citations (62)
55. Why has economic growth been more pro-poor in some states of India than others?
    Journal of Development Economics, 2002, 68, (2), 381-400 View citations (115)

2001

56. Behavioral responses to risk in rural China
    Journal of Development Economics, 2001, 66, (1), 23-49 View citations (31)
    See also Working Paper (1998)
57. Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Looking Beyond Averages
    World Development, 2001, 29, (11), 1803-1815 View citations (153)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
58. How Did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1990s?
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2001, 47, (3), 283-300 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper (2000)
59. Identifying Welfare Effects from Subjective Questions
    Economica, 2001, 68, (271), 335-57 View citations (88)
    See also Working Paper (2000)
60. Is literacy shared within households? Theory and evidence for Bangladesh
    Labour Economics, 2001, 8, (6), 649-665 View citations (10)
61. On Assessing the Efficiency of the Welfare State: A Comment
    Kyklos, 2001, 54, (1), 115-23 View citations (2)

2000

62. Banking on the Poor? Branch Location and Nonfarm Rural Development in Bangladesh
    Review of Development Economics, 2000, 4, (2), 121-39 View citations (4)
63. Carbon Emissions and Income Inequality
    Oxford Economic Papers, 2000, 52, (4), 651-69 View citations (14)
64. Does Child Labour Displace Schooling? Evidence on Behavioural Responses to an Enrollment Subsidy
    Economic Journal, 2000, 110, (462), C158-75 View citations (73)
    See also Working Paper (1999)
65. Is transient poverty different? Evidence for rural China
    The Journal of Development Studies, 2000, 36, (6), 82-99 View citations (41)
66. Measuring Poverty Using Qualitative Perceptions Of Consumption Adequacy
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000, 82, (3), 462-471 View citations (69)
67. Monitoring Targeting Performance When Decentralized Allocations to the Poor Are Unobserved
    World Bank Economic Review, 2000, 14, (2), 331-45 View citations (21)
68. Prices, wages and poverty in rural India: what lessons do the time series data hold for policy?
    Food Policy, 2000, 25, (3), 351-364 View citations (3)
69. Welfare Impacts of the 1998 Financial Crisis in Russia and the Response of the Public Safety Net
    The Economics of Transition, 2000, 8, (2), 269-295 View citations (17)
70. Who wants to redistribute?: The tunnel effect in 1990s Russia
    Journal of Public Economics, 2000, 76, (1), 87-104 View citations (67)

1999

71. Appraising Workfare
    World Bank Research Observer, 1999, 14, (1), 31-48 View citations (18)
72. Are poorer states worse at targeting their poor?
    Economics Letters, 1999, 65, (3), 373-377 View citations (11)
73. Are the poor less well insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China
    Journal of Development Economics, 1999, 58, (1), 61-81 View citations (81)
    See also Working Paper (1997)
74. Benefit Incidence, Public Spending Reforms, and the Timing of Program Capture
    World Bank Economic Review, 1999, 13, (2), 257-73 View citations (37)
75. China's Lagging Poor Areas
    American Economic Review, 1999, 89, (2), 301-305 View citations (10)
76. Is More Targeting Consistent with Less Spending?
    International Tax and Public Finance, 1999, 6, (3), 411-419 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper (1999)
77. When Economic Reform Is Faster Than Statistical Reform: Measuring and Explaining Income Inequality in Rural China
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1999, 61, (1), 33-56 View citations (27)

1998

78. Are there dynamic gains from a poor-area development program?
    Journal of Public Economics, 1998, 67, (1), 65-85 View citations (36)
    See also Working Paper (1996)
79. Does aggregation hide the harmful effects of inequality on growth?
    Economics Letters, 1998, 61, (1), 73-77 View citations (31)
80. Farm productivity and rural poverty in India
    The Journal of Development Studies, 1998, 34, (4), 62-85 View citations (54)
    See also Working Paper (1998)
81. Transient Poverty in Postreform Rural China
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1998, 26, (2), 338-357 View citations (56)
82. Why Have Some Indian States Done Better Than Others at Reducing Rural Poverty?
    Economica, 1998, 65, (257), 17-38 View citations (83)
    See also Working Paper (1996)

1997

83. A Comment on Rati Ram's Test of the Kuznets Hypothesis
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1997, 46, (1), 187-90 View citations (1)
84. Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?
    Economics Letters, 1997, 56, (1), 51-57 View citations (84)
    See also Working Paper (1997)
85. Decomposing social indicators using distributional data
    Journal of Econometrics, 1997, 77, (1), 125-139 View citations (61)
    See also Working Paper (1995)
86. Famines and Economics
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1997, 35, (3), 1205-1242 View citations (25)
    See also Working Paper (1996)
87. Good and bad growth: The human development reports
    World Development, 1997, 25, (5), 631-638 View citations (59)
88. Macroeconomic Crises and Poverty Monitoring: A Case Study for India
    Review of Development Economics, 1997, 1, (2), 135-52 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper (1996)
89. Risk and Insurance in Village India: Comment
    Econometrica, 1997, 65, (1), 171-184 View citations (64)
90. What Can New Survey Data Tell Us about Recent Changes in Distribution and Poverty?
    World Bank Economic Review, 1997, 11, (2), 357-82 View citations (163)
    See also Working Paper (1996)

1996

91. Data in transition: Assessing rural living standards in Southern China
    China Economic Review, 1996, 7, (1), 23-56 View citations (59)
92. Growth divergence due to spatial externalities
    Economics Letters, 1996, 53, (2), 227-232 View citations (26)
93. How Important to India's Poor Is the Sectoral Composition of Economic Growth?
    World Bank Economic Review, 1996, 10, (1), 1-25 View citations (130)
94. How Well Can Method Substitute for Data? Five Experiments in Poverty Analysis
    World Bank Research Observer, 1996, 11, (2), 199-221 View citations (5)
95. Issues in Measuring and Modelling Poverty
    Economic Journal, 1996, 106, (438), 1328-43 View citations (35)
    See also Working Paper (1996)
96. When Method Matters: Monitoring Poverty in Bangladesh
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1996, 44, (4), 761-92 View citations (12)

1995

97. Growth and poverty: Evidence for developing countries in the 1980s
    Economics Letters, 1995, 48, (3-4), 411-417 View citations (25)
98. Poverty and Household Size
    Economic Journal, 1995, 105, (433), 1415-34 View citations (119)
    See also Working Paper (1994)
99. Testing a social safety net
    Journal of Public Economics, 1995, 57, (2), 175-199 View citations (9)

1994

100. How Robust Is a Poverty Profile?
     World Bank Economic Review, 1994, 8, (1), 75-102 View citations (67)
     See also Working Paper (1993)
101. How well do static indicators identify the chronically poor?
     Journal of Public Economics, 1994, 53, (3), 367-394 View citations (40)
102. Impacts on rural poverty of land-based targeting: Further results for Bangladesh
     World Development, 1994, 22, (6), 823-838 View citations (13)
103. Is Poverty Increasing in the Developing World?
     Review of Income and Wealth, 1994, 40, (4), 359-76 View citations (40)
     See also Working Paper (1993)
104. Measuring Social Welfare with and without Poverty Lines
     American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 359-64 View citations (17)
105. Poverty rankings using noisy data on living standards
     Economics Letters, 1994, 45, (4), 481-485 View citations (12)
106. Transfer Benefits from Public-Works Employment: Evidence for Rural India
     Economic Journal, 1994, 104, (427), 1346-69 View citations (43)

1993

107. Does Household Consumption Behave as a Martingale? A Test for Rural South India
     The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1993, 75, (3), 500-504 View citations (4)
108. Does Maharashtra's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment? Effects of the 1988 Wage Increase
     Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1993, 41, (2), 251-75 View citations (10)
109. Employment and Length of the Working Week in a Unionized Economy in which Hours of Work Influence Productivity
     The Economic Record, 1993, 69, (207), 428-36 View citations (16)
110. Human Development in Poor Countries: On the Role of Private Incomes and Public Services
     Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993, 7, (1), 133-150 View citations (142)
111. Reciprocity without commitment: Characterization and performance of informal insurance arrangements
     Journal of Development Economics, 1993, 40, (1), 1-24 View citations (137)

1992

112. Does Undernutrition Respond to Incomes and Prices? Dominance Tests for Indonesia
     World Bank Economic Review, 1992, 6, (1), 109-24 View citations (6)
     See also Working Paper (1991)
113. Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures: A decomposition with applications to Brazil and India in the 1980s
     Journal of Development Economics, 1992, 38, (2), 275-295 View citations (136)
114. On "Hunger and Public Action": A Review Article
     World Bank Research Observer, 1992, 7, (1), 1-16

1991

115. A Dynamic Econometric Model of Agricultural Wage Determination in Bangladesh
     Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1991, 53, (4), 361-76 View citations (7)
116. Measuring Changes in Poverty: A Methodological Case Study of Indonesia during an Adjustment Period
     World Bank Economic Review, 1991, 5, (1), 57-82 View citations (52)
117. Quantifying Absolute Poverty in the Developing World
     Review of Income and Wealth, 1991, 37, (4), 345-61 View citations (86)
118. Reaching the Rural Poor through Public Employment: Arguments, Evidence, and Lessons from South Asia
     World Bank Research Observer, 1991, 6, (2), 153-75 View citations (26)
119. The impact on poverty of food pricing reforms: A welfare analysis for Indonesia
     Journal of Policy Modeling, 1991, 13, (2), 281-299 View citations (26)
120. The sectoral structure of poverty during an adjustment period: Evidence for Indonesia in the mid-1980s
     World Development, 1991, 19, (12), 1653-1678 View citations (10)
     See also Working Paper (1990)
121. Urban-rural cost-of-living differentials in a developing economy
     Journal of Urban Economics, 1991, 29, (1), 113-127 View citations (9)

1990

122. Famine, biosocial society series: G. Ainsworth Harrison, ed., No. 1 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988) pp. xvi + 166, [UK pound]30.00
     Journal of Development Economics, 1990, 33, (1), 165-170
123. Income Effects on Undernutrition
     Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1990, 38, (3), 489-515 View citations (21)
124. On the coverage of public employment schemes for poverty alleviation
     Journal of Development Economics, 1990, 34, (1-2), 57-79 View citations (11)
125. Rural Welfare Effects of Food Price Changes under Induced Wage Responses: Theory and Evidence for Bangladesh
     Oxford Economic Papers, 1990, 42, (3), 574-85 View citations (19)
126. Rural indebtedness in the Punjab 1878: Results of a household survey
     Explorations in Economic History, 1990, 27, (2), 178-196

1989

127. Land-contingent poverty alleviation schemes
     World Development, 1989, 17, (8), 1223-1233 View citations (8)
128. Targeted policies for poverty alleviation under imperfect information: Algorithms and applications
     Journal of Policy Modeling, 1989, 11, (2), 213-224 View citations (27)
129. The welfare cost of housing standards: Theory with application to Jakarta
     Journal of Urban Economics, 1989, 26, (2), 197-211 View citations (1)

1988

130. Expected Poverty under Risk-Induced Welfare Variability
     Economic Journal, 1988, 98, (393), 1171-82 View citations (42)
131. Liberalization and inequality in Sri Lanka: A comment
     Journal of Development Economics, 1988, 28, (2), 247-255
132. Rational expectations as long-run equilibria: Tests for Indian securities
     Economics Letters, 1988, 26, (4), 363-367 View citations (1)
133. Social Security in a "Moral Economy": An Empirical Analysis for Java
     The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1988, 70, (1), 36-44 View citations (40)

1987

134. Towards a theory of famine relief policy
     Journal of Public Economics, 1987, 33, (1), 21-39
135. Trade and stabilization: Another look at British India's controversial foodgrain exports
     Explorations in Economic History, 1987, 24, (4), 354-370

1986

136. On Expectations Formation When Future Welfare Is Contemplated
     Kyklos, 1986, 39, (4), 564-73
137. On some estimates of an asian savings function
     Economics Letters, 1986, 20, (2), 121-124

1985

138. The Information Efficiency of Traders' Price Expectations in a Bangladesh Price Market
     Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1985, 47, (2), 171-84 View citations (2)
139. The Performance of Rice Markets in Bangladesh during the 1974 Famine
     Economic Journal, 1985, 95, (377), 15-29 View citations (4)

1984

140. How Much Is a Transfer Payment Worth to a Rural Worker?
     Oxford Economic Papers, 1984, 36, (3), 478-89 View citations (2)
141. The social appraisal of local public spending using revealed fiscal preferences
     Journal of Urban Economics, 1984, 16, (1), 46-64 View citations (2)

1983

142. Commodity transfers and the international economic order: A comment
     Journal of Development Economics, 1983, 13, (1-2), 205-212 View citations (2)

1982

143. The Welfare Economics of Local Public Spending: An Empirical Approach
     Economica, 1982, 49, (193), 49-61 View citations (3)

Undated

144. Decentralizing Eligibility for a Federal Antipoverty Program: A Case Study for China
     World Bank Economic Review, 23, (1), 1-30 View citations (1)

Chapters

2013

1. Trade Insulation as Social Protection
   A chapter in The Economics of Food Price Volatility, 2013 View citations (2)

2008

2. Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs
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   See also Working Paper (2005)

1995

3. Poverty and policy
   Chapter 41 in Handbook of Development Economics, 1995, vol. 3, Part 2, pp 2551-2657 View citations (149)
   See also Working Paper (1993)