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Working Papers

2009

1. A Pobreza Global Reavaliada: Uma Réplica a Reddy
   One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
2. Definindo o Crescimento Pró-Pobres: uma Resposta para Kakwani
   One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
3. Définition de la croissance favorable aux pauvres: une Réponse Nanak Kakwani
   One Pager French, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
4. Frame-of-reference bias in subjective welfare regressions
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
5. Hacia una Definición de Crecimiento Económico Favorable a los Pobres: una Respuesta a Kakwani
   One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
6. Nueva Evaluación de la Pobreza Mundial: una Respuesta a Reddy
   One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
7. The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) "Middle Class"
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
8. Weakly relative poverty
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
9. Why don't we see poverty convergence ?
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2008

10. Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas ? Evidence from rural China
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
11. Are there lessons for africa from China's success against poverty ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in World Development (2009)
12. Bailing out the world's poorest
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Challenge (2009)
13. 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
14. Dollar a day revisited
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
15. Evaluation in the practice of development
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Research Observer (2009)
16. Global Poverty Reassessed: A Reply to Reddy
    One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth View citations
17. Global poverty and inequality: a review of the evidence
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
18. On the welfarist rationale for relative poverty lines
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
19. Qual Linha de Pobreza? Uma Resposta a Reddy
    One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
20. Quel Seuil de Pauvreté? Une Réponse à Reddy
    One Pager French, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
21. 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
22. Which Poverty Line? A Response to Reddy
    One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
23. ¿Cual Línea de Pobreza? Una Respuesta a Reddy
    One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth

2007

24. A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Human Development
    Research Unit Working Papers, Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2007)
25. Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981-2004
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
26. Economic growth and poverty reduction: Do poor countries need to worry about inequality?
    2020 vision briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
27. Geographic inequity in a decentralized anti-poverty program: a case study of China
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
28. How relevant is targeting to the success of an antipoverty program ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
29. New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Population and Development Review (2007)
30. The changing profile of poverty in the world
    2020 vision briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

2006

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

2005

34. A poverty-inequality trade-off?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Inequality (2005)
35. An econometric method of correcting for unit nonresponse bias in surveys
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2007)
36. Evaluating anti-poverty programs
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Chapter (2008)
37. Inequality is bad for the poor
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
38. Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
39. Lasting local impacts of an economywide crisis
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
40. Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
    Working Papers, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2004) View citations
    See also Journal Article in World Development (2006)
41. On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
42. Searching for the economic gradient in self-assessed health
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
43. Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Inequality (2006)
44. Who cares about relative deprivation ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations

2004

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

2003

51. Externalities in Rural Development: Evidence for China
    Working Papers, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2002) View citations
52. Household welfare impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
53. In measuring aggregate"social efficiency"
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Economic Development and Cultural Change (2005)
54. Land allocation in Vietnam's agrarian transition
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
55. On the utility consistency of poverty lines
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
56. Social protection in a crisis - Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2004)
57. Survey compliance and the distribution of income
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
58. Targeted transfers in poor countries: revisiting the tradeoffs and policy options
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
59. The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality: why measurement matters
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2004)

2002

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

2001

63. Assisting the transition from workfare to work: a randomized experiment
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Industrial and Labor Relations Review (2004)
64. Breaking up the collective farm: welfare outcomes of Vietnam's massive land privatization
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
65. Do workfare participants recover quickly from retrenchment?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
66. Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2003)
67. Growth, inequality, and poverty: looking beyond averages
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in World Development (2001)
68. Inequality convergence
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2003)
69. 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
70. Measuring aggregate welfare in developing countries - How well do national accounts and surveys agree?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2003)
71. Measuring pro-poor growth
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2003)
72. On the urbanization of poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2002)
73. Wealth Distribution and Self-Employment in a Developing Economy
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations
74. Who wants Safer Streets? Explaining Concern for Public Safety in Brazil
    Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Psychology (2003)

2000

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

1999

82. Demand for public safety
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
83. Does child labor displace schooling? - evidence on behavioral responses to an enrollment subsidy
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2000)
84. Income gains to the poor from workfare - estimates for Argentina's TRABAJAR Program
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
85. Is knowledge shared within households?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
86. Is more targeting consistent with less spending?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in International Tax and Public Finance (1999)
87. Protecting the poor from macroeconomic shocks
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
88. Subjective economic welfare
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
89. Themystery of the vanishing benefits: Ms. Speedy Analyst's introduction to evaluation
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
90. When is growth pro-poor? Evidence from the diverse experiences of India's states
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
91. Who wants to redistribute? Russia's tunnel effect in the 1990's
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

1998

92. Appraising workfare programs
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
93. Behavioral responses to risk in rural China
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2001)
94. Benefit incidence and the timing of program capture
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
95. Determinants of transient and chronic poverty: evidence from rural China
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
96. Evaluating a targeted social program when placement is decentralized
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
97. Farm productivity and rural poverty in India
    FCND discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations
98. Geographic Poverty Traps?
    Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development View citations
99. Measuring poverty using qualitative perceptions of welfare
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
100. Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice
     Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations
101. Reaching poor areas in a federal system
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
102. 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

1997

103. 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
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (1999)
104. Banking on the poor? Branch placement and nonfarm rural development in Bangladesh
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
105. Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
     See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (1997)
106. Poor areas, or only poor people?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
107. Why have some Indian states performed better than others at reducing rural poverty?
     FCND discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations

1996

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

1995

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

1994

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

1993

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

1992

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

1991

128. 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)
129. Growth and Redistribution Components of Changes in Poverty Measures
     Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations
130. 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
131. On hunger and public action
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
132. Quantifying the magnitude and severity of absolute poverty in the developing world in the mid-1980s
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
133. The challenging arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations

1990

134. REACHING THE POOR THROUGH RURAL PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT; A SURVEY OF THEORY AND EVIDENCE
     World Bank - Discussion Papers, World Bank
135. Regional disparities, targeting, and poverty in India
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
136. 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

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

Journal Articles

2009

1. Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success Against Poverty?
   World Development, 2009, 37, (2), 303-313
   See also Working Paper (2008)
2. Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas?
   Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, (3-4), 512-528 View citations
3. Bailing Out the World's Poorest
   Challenge, 2009, 52, (2), 55-80
   See also Working Paper (2008)
4. Evaluation in the Practice of Development
   World Bank Research Observer, 2009, 24, (1), 29-53
   See also Working Paper (2008)

2008

5. 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)
6. Miss-targeted or miss-measured?
   Economics Letters, 2008, 100, (1), 9-12
7. Testing for an economic gradient in health status using subjective data
   Health Economics, 2008, 17, (11), 1237-1259 View citations

2007

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

2006

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

2005

18. A poverty-inequality trade off?
    Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3, (2), 169-181 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2005)
19. Decentralized targeting of an antipoverty program
    Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (4), 705-727 View citations
20. Hidden impact? Household saving in response to a poor-area development project
    Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (11-12), 2183-2204 View citations
21. On Measuring Aggregate "Social Efficiency."
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 53, (2), 273-92 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2003)
22. Rich and powerful?: Subjective power and welfare in Russia
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2005, 56, (2), 141-172
    See also Working Paper (2002)

2004

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

2003

30. Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India?
    Journal of Econometrics, 2003, 112, (1), 153-173 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)
31. Estimating the Benefit Incidence of an Antipoverty Program by Propensity-Score Matching
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2003, 21, (1), 19-30 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2000)
32. Inequality convergence
    Economics Letters, 2003, 80, (3), 351-356 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)
33. 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
    See also Working Paper (2001)
34. Measuring pro-poor growth
    Economics Letters, 2003, 78, (1), 93-99 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)
35. Who wants safer streets? Explaining concern for public safety in Brazil
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2003, 24, (1), 17-33 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)

2002

36. Are the Poor Protected from Budget Cuts? Evidence for Argentina
    Journal of Applied Economics, 2002, V, 95-121 View citations
37. Is India's Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind?
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002, 16, (3), 89-108 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2002)
38. On the urbanization of poverty
    Journal of Development Economics, 2002, 68, (2), 435-442 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)
39. Self-rated economic welfare in Russia
    European Economic Review, 2002, 46, (8), 1453-1473 View citations
40. 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

2001

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

2000

47. Banking on the Poor? Branch Location and Nonfarm Rural Development in Bangladesh
    Review of Development Economics, 2000, 4, (2), 121-39 View citations
48. Carbon Emissions and Income Inequality
    Oxford Economic Papers, 2000, 52, (4), 651-69 View citations
49. Does Child Labour Displace Schooling? Evidence on Behavioural Responses to an Enrollment Subsidy
    Economic Journal, 2000, 110, (462), C158-75 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1999)
50. Measuring Poverty Using Qualitative Perceptions Of Consumption Adequacy
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000, 82, (3), 462-471 View citations
51. Monitoring Targeting Performance When Decentralized Allocations to the Poor Are Unobserved
    World Bank Economic Review, 2000, 14, (2), 331-45 View citations
52. 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
53. 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
54. Who wants to redistribute?: The tunnel effect in 1990s Russia
    Journal of Public Economics, 2000, 76, (1), 87-104 View citations

1999

55. Appraising Workfare
    World Bank Research Observer, 1999, 14, (1), 31-48 View citations
56. Are poorer states worse at targeting their poor?
    Economics Letters, 1999, 65, (3), 373-377 View citations
57. 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
    See also Working Paper (1997)
58. Benefit Incidence, Public Spending Reforms, and the Timing of Program Capture
    World Bank Economic Review, 1999, 13, (2), 257-73 View citations
59. China's Lagging Poor Areas
    American Economic Review, 1999, 89, (2), 301-305 View citations
60. Is More Targeting Consistent with Less Spending?
    International Tax and Public Finance, 1999, 6, (3), 411-419 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1999)
61. 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

1998

62. Are there dynamic gains from a poor-area development program?
    Journal of Public Economics, 1998, 67, (1), 65-85 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1996)
63. Does aggregation hide the harmful effects of inequality on growth?
    Economics Letters, 1998, 61, (1), 73-77 View citations
64. Transient Poverty in Postreform Rural China
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1998, 26, (2), 338-357 View citations
65. Why Have Some Indian States Done Better Than Others at Reducing Rural Poverty?
    Economica, 1998, 65, (257), 17-38 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1996)

1997

66. A Comment on Rati Ram's Test of the Kuznets Hypothesis
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1997, 46, (1), 187-90
67. Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?
    Economics Letters, 1997, 56, (1), 51-57 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1997)
68. Decomposing social indicators using distributional data
    Journal of Econometrics, 1997, 77, (1), 125-139 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1995)
69. Famines and Economics
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1997, 35, (3), 1205-1242 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1996)
70. Good and bad growth: The human development reports
    World Development, 1997, 25, (5), 631-638 View citations
71. Macroeconomic Crises and Poverty Monitoring: A Case Study for India
    Review of Development Economics, 1997, 1, (2), 135-52 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1996)
72. Risk and Insurance in Village India: Comment
    Econometrica, 1997, 65, (1), 171-184 View citations
73. 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
    See also Working Paper (1996)

1996

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

1995

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

1994

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

1993

90. A Regional Poverty Profile for Indonesia
    Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 1993, 29, (3), 37-68 View citations
91. 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
92. Does Maharashtra's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment? Effects of the 1988 Wage Increase
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1993, 41, (2), 251-75
93. 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
94. Human Development in Poor Countries: On the Role of Private Incomes and Public Services
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993, 7, (1), 133-50 View citations
95. Reciprocity without commitment: Characterization and performance of informal insurance arrangements
    Journal of Development Economics, 1993, 40, (1), 1-24 View citations

1992

96. Does Undernutrition Respond to Incomes and Prices? Dominance Tests for Indonesia
    World Bank Economic Review, 1992, 6, (1), 109-24 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1991)
97. 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
98. On "Hunger and Public Action": A Review Article
    World Bank Research Observer, 1992, 7, (1), 1-16

1991

99. A Dynamic Econometric Model of Agricultural Wage Determination in Bangladesh
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1991, 53, (4), 361-76 View citations
100. 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
101. Quantifying Absolute Poverty in the Developing World
     Review of Income and Wealth, 1991, 37, (4), 345-61 View citations
102. 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
103. The impact on poverty of food pricing reforms: A welfare analysis for Indonesia
     Journal of Policy Modeling, 1991, 13, (2), 281-299 View citations
104. 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
     See also Working Paper (1990)
105. Urban-rural cost-of-living differentials in a developing economy
     Journal of Urban Economics, 1991, 29, (1), 113-127 View citations

1990

106. 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
107. Income Effects on Undernutrition
     Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1990, 38, (3), 489-515 View citations
108. On the coverage of public employment schemes for poverty alleviation
     Journal of Development Economics, 1990, 34, (1-2), 57-79 View citations
109. 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
110. Rural indebtedness in the Punjab 1878: Results of a household survey
     Explorations in Economic History, 1990, 27, (2), 178-196

1989

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

1988

114. Expected Poverty under Risk-Induced Welfare Variability
     Economic Journal, 1988, 98, (393), 1171-82 View citations
115. Inpres and Inequality: A Distributional Perspective on the Centre's Regional Disbursements 1
     Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 1988, 24, (3), 53-71 View citations
116. Liberalization and inequality in Sri Lanka: A comment
     Journal of Development Economics, 1988, 28, (2), 247-255
117. Rational expectations as long-run equilibria: Tests for Indian securities
     Economics Letters, 1988, 26, (4), 363-367
118. Social Security in a "Moral Economy": An Empirical Analysis for Java
     The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1988, 70, (1), 36-44 View citations

1987

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

1986

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

1985

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

1984

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

1983

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

1982

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

Undated

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

Chapters

2008

1. Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs
   Elsevier View citations
   See also Working Paper (2005)

1995

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