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Working Papers

2021

Poverty in China since 1950: A Counterfactual Perspective
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Reconciling the Conflicting Narratives on Poverty in China
Working Papers, Georgetown University, Department of Economics
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020)

2020

Can the World’s Poor Protect Themselves from the New Coronavirus?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
Inequality and the Coronavirus: Socioeconomic Covariates of Behavioral Responses and Viral Outcomes Across US Counties
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (12)
On the Origins of the Idea of Ending Poverty
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
SDG1: The Last Three Percent
Working Papers, Center for Global Development
Scarred but Wiser: World War 2's COVID Legacy
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020)
Should the Randomistas (Continue to) Rule?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
Also in Working Papers, Center for Global Development (2019) View citations (1)
Unpacking Household Engel Curves
Working Papers, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation)
Also in Working Papers, HAL (2020)
PSE Working Papers, HAL (2020)
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020)

2019

A Market for Work Permits
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Ethnic Inequality and Poverty in Malaysia Since 1969
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
Food Stamps and America’s Poorest
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
On Measuring Global Poverty
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
The Missing Market for Work Permits
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2009

A comparative perspective on poverty reduction in Brazil, China and India
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
See also Journal Article in World Bank Research Observer (2011)
Designing impact evaluations: different perspectives
3ie Publications, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) View citations (3)
Do poorer countries have less capacity for redistribution ?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
Also in One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth View citations (5)
One Pager Chinese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth View citations (1)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Globalization and Development (2010)
Frame-of-reference bias in subjective welfare regressions
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
Has India's economic growth become more pro-poor in the wake of economic reforms ?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2011)
The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) "Middle Class"
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
See also Journal Article in World Development (2010)
The pattern of growth and poverty reduction in China
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Comparative Economics (2010)
Weakly relative poverty
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2011)
Why don't we see poverty convergence ?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2012)

2008

Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas ? Evidence from rural China
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
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)
Bailing out the world's poorest
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
See also Journal Article in Challenge (2009)
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 (27)
Dollar a day revisited
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (32)
See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2009)
Evaluation in the practice of development
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
See also Journal Article in World Bank Research Observer (2009)
Global poverty and inequality: a review of the evidence
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (23)
On the welfarist rationale for relative poverty lines
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (11)
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 (69)
See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2010)

2007

Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981-2004
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (40)
Economic growth and poverty reduction: Do poor countries need to worry about inequality?
2020 vision briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (2)
Geographic inequity in a decentralized anti-poverty program: a case study of China
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
How relevant is targeting to the success of an antipoverty program ?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (181)
See also Journal Article in Population and Development Review (2007)
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)
The changing profile of poverty in the world
2020 vision briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (3)

2006

Di Bao: a guaranteed minimum income in urban China?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (12)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2008)
Partially awakened giants: uneven growth in China and India
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)

2005

A poverty-inequality trade-off?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (15)
See also Journal Article in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2005)
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)
Evaluating anti-poverty programs
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (35)
See also Chapter (2008)
Inequality is bad for the poor
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)
Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
Lasting local impacts of an economywide crisis
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
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)
Searching for the economic gradient in self-assessed health
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
See also Journal Article in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2006)
Who cares about relative deprivation ?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (25)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2010)

2004

China's (uneven) progress against poverty
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (50)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2007)
Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (47)
Gainers and losers from trade reform in Morocco
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (51)
How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (88)
See also Journal Article in World Bank Research Observer (2004)
Pro-poor growth: A primer
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (66)

2003

A Model-Based Assessment of India's Progress in Reducing Poverty in the 1990s
Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (6)
Externalities in Rural Development: Evidence for China
WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (3)
Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2002) View citations (6)
Hidden impact ? Ex-post evaluation of an anti-poverty program
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
Household welfare impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
In measuring aggregate"social efficiency"
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
See also Journal Article in Economic Development and Cultural Change (2005)
Land allocation in Vietnam's agrarian transition
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (15)
On the utility consistency of poverty lines
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (20)
Social protection in a crisis - Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (38)
See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2004)
Survey compliance and the distribution of income
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (24)
Targeted transfers in poor countries: revisiting the trade-offs and policy options
Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes, The World Bank View citations (21)
Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2003) View citations (14)
The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality: why measurement matters
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (51)
See also Journal Article in QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2004)

2002

Household Income Dynamics in Rural China
WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (4)
Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2001) View citations (28)
Is India's economic growth leaving the poor behind?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (71)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Perspectives (2002)
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

Assisting the transition from workfare to work: a randomized experiment
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (35)
See also Journal Article in ILR Review (2004)
Breaking up the collective farm: welfare outcomes of Vietnam's massive land privatization
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (11)
Do workfare participants recover quickly from retrenchment?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India ?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (32)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2003)
Growth, inequality, and poverty: looking beyond averages
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (375)
See also Journal Article in World Development (2001)
Inequality convergence
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (10)
See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2003)
Is Knowledge Shared within Households? Theory and Evidence for Bangladesh
Working Papers, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore View citations (5)
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)
Measuring aggregate welfare in developing countries - How well do national accounts and surveys agree?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (18)
See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2003)
Measuring pro-poor growth
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (81)
See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2003)
On the urbanization of poverty
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2002)
Qualitative and Quantitative Poverty Appraisal: Complementarities, Tensions and the Way Forward
Working Papers, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management
Wealth Distribution and Self-Employment in a Developing Economy
CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (8)
Who wants Safer Streets? Explaining Concern for Public Safety in Brazil
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute
See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Psychology (2003)

2000

Are the poor protected from budget cuts? theory and evidence for Argentina
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
Distributional outcomes of a decentralized welfare program
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (24)
Estimating the Benefit Incidence of an Antipoverty Program by Propensity Score Matching
Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers, Econometric Society View citations (33)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (2003)
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)
Identifying welfare effects from subjective questions
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (74)
See also Journal Article in Economica (2001)
Las líneas de pobreza en la teoría y en la práctica
Sede de la CEPAL en Santiago (Estudios e Investigaciones), Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Short-lived shocks with long-lived impacts? - household income dynamics in a transition economy
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (23)
What can we learn about country performance from conditional comparisons across countries?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)

1999

Demand for public safety
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
Does child labor displace schooling? - evidence on behavioral responses to an enrollment subsidy
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (106)
See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2000)
Income gains to the poor from workfare - estimates for Argentina's TRABAJAR Program
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (26)
Is knowledge shared within households?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)
Is more targeting consistent with less spending?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (14)
See also Journal Article in International Tax and Public Finance (1999)
Monitoring targeting performance when decentralized allocation to the poor are unobserved
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2000)
Proceedings of a Conference of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium: On Reform, Food Prices and Poverty in India
1998: Policy Reform, Market Stability, and Food Security Conference, June 1998, Alexandria VA, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium
Protecting the Poor in a Crisis - and Beyond
World Bank Other Operational Studies, The World Bank View citations (1)
Protecting the poor from macroeconomic shocks
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
Subjective economic welfare
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (25)
Themystery of the vanishing benefits: Ms. Speedy Analyst's introduction to evaluation
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
When is growth pro-poor? Evidence from the diverse experiences of India's states
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (63)
Who wants to redistribute? Russia's tunnel effect in the 1990's
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)

1998

Appraising workfare programs
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
Behavioral responses to risk in rural China
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2001)
Benefit incidence and the timing of program capture
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (14)
Determinants of transient and chronic poverty: evidence from rural China
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (16)
Evaluating a targeted social program when placement is decentralized
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
Farm productivity and rural poverty in India
FCND discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (134)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Studies (1998)
Geographic Poverty Traps?
Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development View citations (59)
Measuring poverty using qualitative perceptions of welfare
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (19)
Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice
Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (100)
Reaching poor areas in a federal system
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
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 (11)

1997

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 (35)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (1999)
Banking on the poor? Branch placement and nonfarm rural development in Bangladesh
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (219)
See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (1997)
Poor areas, or only poor people?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (73)
Spatial poverty traps?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (12)
Why have some Indian states performed better than others at reducing rural poverty?
FCND discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (9)

1996

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)
Comparaisons de la Pauverte. Concepts et methodes
Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (2)
Equity and growth in developing countries: old and new perspectives on the policy issues
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (91)
Famines and economics
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Literature (1997)
India's Checkered History in Fight against Poverty: Are There Lessons for the Future?
Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (24)
Issues in measuring and modeling poverty
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (49)
See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (1996)
Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring
FCND discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (5)
Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (1996) View citations (2)
Transient poverty in rural China
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
What can new survey data tell us about recent changes in distribution and poverty?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (29)
See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (1997)
Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (56)

1995

Decomposing social indicators using distributional data
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (1997)
Growth and poverty in rural India
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (30)
Is Targeting Through a Work Requirement Efficient? Some Evidence for Rural India
Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (70)

1994

How important to India's poor is the urban - rural composition of growth?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (12)
How land-based targeting affects rural poverty
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
Poverty and household size
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)
See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (1995)
When method matters: toward a resolution of the debate about Bangladesh's poverty measures
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)

1993

How robust is a poverty profile?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (1994)
Is poverty increasing in the developing world?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (36)
See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (1994)
Poverty and policy
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (122)
See also Chapter (1995)

1992

Poverty Comparisons - A Guide to Concepts and Methods
Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (153)

1991

Does undernutrition respond to incomes and prices? dominance tests for indonesia
Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (1)
See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (1992)
Growth and Redistribution Components of Changes in Poverty Measures
Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (72)
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)
On hunger and public action
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
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 (8)
The challenging arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)

1990

REACHING THE POOR THROUGH RURAL PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT; A SURVEY OF THEORY AND EVIDENCE
World Bank - Discussion Papers, World Bank View citations (5)
Regional disparities, targeting, and poverty in India
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (52)
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

Cost of living differences between urban and rural areas in Indonesia
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
Do price increases for staple foods help or hurt the rural poor?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
Is undernutrition responsive to changes in incomes?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
Poverty and undernutrition in Indonesia during the 1980s
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
Reciprocity Without Commitment: Characterization and Performance of Informal Risk-Sharing Arrangements
Working Papers, Warwick - Development Economics Research Centre View citations (11)

1987

Market Responses to Anti-Hunger Policies
WIDER Working Papers, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (6)
Market Responses to Anti-Hunger Policies: Effects on Wages, Prices and Employment
WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (7)

Undated

A Pobreza Global Reavaliada: Uma RÃ©plica a Reddy
One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
Definindo o Crescimento PrÃ³-Pobres: uma Resposta para Kakwani
One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
Defining pro-poor growth: a response to Kakwani
One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth View citations (6)
DÃ©finition de la croissance favorable aux pauvres: une RÃ©ponse Nanak Kakwani
One Pager French, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
Global Poverty Reassessed: A Reply to Reddy
One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth View citations (1)
Hacia una DefiniciÃ³n de Crecimiento EconÃ³mico Favorable a los Pobres: una Respuesta a Kakwani
One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
Nueva EvaluaciÃ³n de la Pobreza Mundial: una Respuesta a Reddy
One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
Qual Linha de Pobreza? Uma Resposta a Reddy
One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
Quel Seuil de PauvretÃ©? Une RÃ©ponse Ã Reddy
One Pager French, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
TÃªm os PaÃses mais Pobres menos Capacidade de RedistribuiÃ§Ã£o?
One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
Which Poverty Line? A Response to Reddy
One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
Â¿Cual LÃnea de Pobreza? Una Respuesta a Reddy
One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
Â¿Los PaÃses MÃ¡s Pobres Tienen Menos Capacidad de RedistribuciÃ³n?
One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth

Journal Articles

2020

Book review of Measuring Poverty around the World
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2020, 18, (1), 131-136
Ethnic inequality and poverty in Malaysia since May 1969. Part 1: Inequality
World Development, 2020, 134, (C)
Ethnic inequality and poverty in Malaysia since May 1969. Part 2: Poverty
World Development, 2020, 134, (C)
Highly prized experiments
World Development, 2020, 127, (C)
Poverty and Growth in India over Six Decades
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 102, (1), 4-27 View citations (3)
“Poverty and Growth in India over the Past Six Decades” – Authors' Response to Comment
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 102, (1), 30-31

2019

Estimating within‐cluster spillover effects using a cluster randomization with application to knowledge diffusion in rural India
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34, (1), 110-128 View citations (2)
Global inequality when unequal countries create unequal people
European Economic Review, 2019, 111, (C), 85-97 View citations (3)
See also Working Paper (2018)
Global poverty measurement when relative income matters
Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 177, (C), - View citations (9)
Guaranteed employment or guaranteed income?
World Development, 2019, 115, (C), 209-221 View citations (7)
See also Working Paper (2018)
Lifting the floor? Economic development, social protection and the developing World's poorest
Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 139, (C), 97-108 View citations (4)
Most of Africa's Nutritionally Deprived Women and Children are Not Found in Poor Households
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101, (4), 631-644 View citations (7)

2018

A poor means test? Econometric targeting in Africa
Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 134, (C), 109-124 View citations (18)
See also Working Paper (2016)
An exploration of the changes in the international comparison program’s global economic landscape
World Development, 2018, 105, (C), 201-216 View citations (1)
Inequality and Globalization: A Review Essay
Journal of Economic Literature, 2018, 56, (2), 620-42 View citations (12)
See also Working Paper (2017)
Workfare versus transfers in rural India
World Development, 2018, 112, (C), 244-258 View citations (6)

2017

A concave log-like transformation allowing non-positive values
Economics Letters, 2017, 161, (C), 130-132 View citations (15)
For India’s Rural Poor, Growing Towns Matter More Than Growing Cities
World Development, 2017, 98, (C), 413-429 View citations (23)
See also Working Paper (2017)
Inequality and Poverty When Effort Matters
Econometrics, 2017, 5, (4), 1-19 View citations (4)
Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India
World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31, (2), 385-411 View citations (26)
See also Working Paper (2015)

2016

Are the world’s poorest being left behind?
Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21, (2), 139-164 View citations (7)
See also Working Paper (2015)
Can Subjective Questions on Economic Welfare Be Trusted?
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64, (4), 697 - 726 View citations (10)
Is Workfare Cost-effective against Poverty in a Poor Labor-Surplus Economy?
World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30, (3), 413-445 View citations (5)
See also Working Paper (2013)
The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30, (1), 77-94 View citations (6)
Toward better global poverty measures
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14, (2), 227-248 View citations (9)
Also in The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14, (2), 227-248 (2016) View citations (2)
See also Working Paper (2015)

2015

Benefit incidence with incentive effects, measurement errors and latent heterogeneity: A case study for China
Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 128, (C), 124-132 View citations (8)
See also Working Paper (2015)
Empowering poor people through public information? Lessons from a movie in rural India
Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 132, (C), 13-22 View citations (20)
On testing the scale sensitivity of poverty measures
Economics Letters, 2015, 137, (C), 88-90 View citations (4)
On the Implications of Essential Heterogeneity for Estimating Causal Impacts Using Social Experiments
Journal of Econometric Methods, 2015, 4, (1), 7
See also Working Paper (2011)
The Luxembourg Income Study
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13, (4), 527-547 View citations (16)
See also Working Paper (2014)

2014

Can We Trust Shoestring Evaluations?
World Bank Economic Review, 2014, 28, (3), 413-431 View citations (4)
See also Working Paper (2012)
Intergenerational mobility and interpersonal inequality in an African economy
Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 110, (C), 327-344 View citations (34)
See also Working Paper (2014)
On the Role of Aid in The Great Escape
Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60, (4), 967-984 View citations (3)

2013

A Proposal for Truly Global Poverty Measures
Global Policy, 2013, 4, (3), 258-265 View citations (12)
How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?
World Bank Research Observer, 2013, 28, (2), 139-158 View citations (43)
See also Working Paper (2013)
Knowledgeable bankers? The demand for research in World Bank operations
Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2013, 5, (1), 1-29 View citations (1)
See also Working Paper (2011)
More Relatively-Poor People in a Less Absolutely-Poor World
Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59, (1), 1-28 View citations (43)
See also Working Paper (2012)
Price Levels and Economic Growth: Making Sense of Revisions to Data on Real Incomes
Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59, (4), 593-613 View citations (9)
Reply to Robert Inklaar
Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59, (4), 623-628 View citations (2)

2012

Fighting Poverty One Experiment at a Time: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty: Review Essay
Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50, (1), 103-14 View citations (3)
Frame-of-reference bias in subjective welfare
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 81, (2), 556-570 View citations (33)
Mashup Indices of Development
World Bank Research Observer, 2012, 27, (1), 1-32 View citations (28)
See also Working Paper (2010)
The World Bank’s publication record
The Review of International Organizations, 2012, 7, (4), 343-368 View citations (1)
See also Working Paper (2010)
Troubling tradeoffs in the Human Development Index
Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99, (2), 201-209 View citations (66)
See also Working Paper (2010)
Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?
American Economic Review, 2012, 102, (1), 504-23 View citations (74)
See also Working Paper (2009)

2011

A Comparative Perspective on Poverty Reduction in Brazil, China, and India
World Bank Research Observer, 2011, 26, (1), 71-104 View citations (11)
See also Working Paper (2009)
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 (26)
See also Working Paper (2009)
On measuring scholarly influence by citations
Scientometrics, 2011, 88, (1), 321-337 View citations (8)
On multidimensional indices of poverty
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9, (2), 235-248 View citations (151)
See also Working Paper (2011)
The human development index: a response to Klugman, Rodriguez and Choi
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9, (3), 475-478 View citations (9)
Weakly Relative Poverty
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93, (4), 1251-1261 View citations (58)
See also Working Paper (2009)

2010

A Micro‐Decomposition Analysis of Aggregate Human Development Outcomes*
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72, (2), 119-145 View citations (1)
Do Poorer Countries Have Less Capacity for Redistribution?
Journal of Globalization and Development, 2010, 1, (2), 1-31 View citations (30)
See also Working Paper (2009)
Poverty reduction without economic growth?: Explaining Brazil's poverty dynamics, 1985-2004
Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 93, (1), 20-36 View citations (33)
See also Working Paper (2007)
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 (179)
See also Working Paper (2008)
The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) Middle Class
World Development, 2010, 38, (4), 445-454 View citations (37)
See also Working Paper (2009)
The pattern of growth and poverty reduction in China
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38, (1), 2-16 View citations (53)
See also Working Paper (2009)
Understanding PPPs and PPP-Based National Accounts: Comment
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2, (4), 46-52 View citations (8)
Who cares about relative deprivation?
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 73, (2), 171-185 View citations (57)
See also Working Paper (2005)

2009

Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success Against Poverty?
World Development, 2009, 37, (2), 303-313 View citations (23)
See also Working Paper (2008)
Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas?
Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, (3-4), 512-528 View citations (49)
Bailing Out the World's Poorest
Challenge, 2009, 52, (2), 55-80 View citations (2)
See also Working Paper (2008)
Dollar a Day Revisited
World Bank Economic Review, 2009, 23, (2), 163-184 View citations (25)
See also Working Paper (2008)
Evaluating three stylised interventions
Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2009, 1, (3), 227-236 View citations (3)
Evaluation in the Practice of Development
World Bank Research Observer, 2009, 24, (1), 29-53 View citations (38)
See also Working Paper (2008)
Should the Randomistas Rule?
The Economists' Voice, 2009, 6, (2), 1-5 View citations (29)

2008

Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition?
Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 87, (2), 191-209 View citations (21)
See also Working Paper (2006)
Miss-targeted or miss-measured?
Economics Letters, 2008, 100, (1), 9-12 View citations (8)
Testing for an economic gradient in health status using subjective data
Health Economics, 2008, 17, (11), 1237-1259 View citations (13)

2007

"Achieving Child-Health-Related Millennium Development Goals: The Role of Infrastructure"--A Comment
World Development, 2007, 35, (5), 920-928 View citations (11)
An econometric method of correcting for unit nonresponse bias in surveys
Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 136, (1), 213-235 View citations (24)
See also Working Paper (2005)
China's (uneven) progress against poverty
Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 82, (1), 1-42 View citations (267)
See also Working Paper (2004)
Lasting Impacts of Indonesiaâ€™s Financial Crisis
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 56, (1), 27-56 View citations (16)
New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty
Population and Development Review, 2007, 33, (4), 667-701 View citations (134)
See also Working Paper (2007)

2006

Land Reallocation in an Agrarian Transition
Economic Journal, 2006, 116, (514), 924-942 View citations (19)
Looking beyond averages in the trade and poverty debate
World Development, 2006, 34, (8), 1374-1392 View citations (27)
See also Working Paper (2010)
Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2006, 4, (1), 33-55 View citations (78)
See also Working Paper (2005)
TESTING POVERTY LINES
Review of Income and Wealth, 2006, 52, (3), 399-421 View citations (13)
The Wealth Effect on New Business Startups in a Developing Economy
Economica, 2006, 73, (291), 367-392 View citations (32)

2005

A poverty-inequality trade off?
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3, (2), 169-181 View citations (13)
See also Working Paper (2005)
Decentralized targeting of an antipoverty program
Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (4), 705-727 View citations (190)
Hidden impact? Household saving in response to a poor-area development project
Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (11-12), 2183-2204 View citations (43)
On Measuring Aggregate "Social Efficiency."
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 53, (2), 273-92 View citations (7)
See also Working Paper (2003)
Rich and powerful?: Subjective power and welfare in Russia
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2005, 56, (2), 141-172 View citations (29)
See also Working Paper (2002)
What Can Ex-Participants Reveal about a Program’s Impact?
Journal of Human Resources, 2005, 40, (1) View citations (32)

2004

Assisting the Transition from Workfare to Work: A Randomized Experiment
ILR Review, 2004, 58, (1), 128-142 View citations (28)
See also Working Paper (2001)
Breaking up the collective farms
The Economics of Transition, 2004, 12, (2), 201-236 View citations (7)
Household Income Dynamics in Two Transition Economies
Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 2004, 8, (3), 1-33 View citations (57)
How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?
World Bank Research Observer, 2004, 19, (2), 141-169 View citations (92)
See also Working Paper (2004)
Social Protection in a Crisis: Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas
World Bank Economic Review, 2004, 18, (3), 367-399 View citations (37)
See also Working Paper (2003)
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)
Welfare Impacts of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization
World Bank Economic Review, 2004, 18, (1), 29-57 View citations (64)

2003

Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India?
Journal of Econometrics, 2003, 112, (1), 153-173 View citations (207)
See also Working Paper (2001)
Estimating the Benefit Incidence of an Antipoverty Program by Propensity-Score Matching
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2003, 21, (1), 19-30 View citations (93)
See also Working Paper (2000)
Inequality convergence
Economics Letters, 2003, 80, (3), 351-356 View citations (61)
See also Working Paper (2001)
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 (82)
See also Working Paper (2001)
Measuring pro-poor growth
Economics Letters, 2003, 78, (1), 93-99 View citations (368)
See also Working Paper (2001)
Who wants safer streets? Explaining concern for public safety in Brazil
Journal of Economic Psychology, 2003, 24, (1), 17-33 View citations (6)
See also Working Paper (2001)

2002

Are the Poor Protected from Budget Cuts? Evidence for Argentina
Journal of Applied Economics, 2002, 05, (1), 27 View citations (3)
Also in Journal of Applied Economics, 2002, 5, 95-121 (2002) View citations (4)
Is India's Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind?
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002, 16, (3), 89-108 View citations (92)
See also Working Paper (2002)
On the urbanization of poverty
Journal of Development Economics, 2002, 68, (2), 435-442 View citations (48)
See also Working Paper (2001)
Self-rated economic welfare in Russia
European Economic Review, 2002, 46, (8), 1453-1473 View citations (160)
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 (254)

2001

Behavioral responses to risk in rural China
Journal of Development Economics, 2001, 66, (1), 23-49 View citations (77)
See also Working Paper (1998)
Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Looking Beyond Averages
World Development, 2001, 29, (11), 1803-1815 View citations (406)
See also Working Paper (2001)
How did the world's poorest fare in the 1990s?
Review of Income and Wealth, 2001, 47, (3), 283-300 View citations (54)
See also Working Paper (2000)
Identifying Welfare Effects from Subjective Questions
Economica, 2001, 68, (271), 335-357 View citations (86)
See also Working Paper (2000)
Is literacy shared within households? Theory and evidence for Bangladesh
Labour Economics, 2001, 8, (6), 649-665 View citations (34)
Note: On Assessing the Efficiency of the Welfare State: A Comment
Kyklos, 2001, 54, (1), 115-124

2000

Banking on the Poor? Branch Location and Nonfarm Rural Development in Bangladesh
Review of Development Economics, 2000, 4, (2), 121-139 View citations (1)
Carbon Emissions and Income Inequality
Oxford Economic Papers, 2000, 52, (4), 651-69 View citations (62)
Does Child Labour Displace Schooling? Evidence on Behavioural Responses to an Enrollment Subsidy
Economic Journal, 2000, 110, (462), C158-75 View citations (243)
See also Working Paper (1999)
Is transient poverty different? Evidence for rural China
Journal of Development Studies, 2000, 36, (6), 82-99 View citations (129)
Measuring Poverty Using Qualitative Perceptions Of Consumption Adequacy
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000, 82, (3), 462-471 View citations (140)
Monitoring Targeting Performance When Decentralized Allocations to the Poor Are Unobserved
World Bank Economic Review, 2000, 14, (2), 331-45 View citations (39)
See also Working Paper (1999)
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 (18)
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 (49)
Who wants to redistribute?: The tunnel effect in 1990s Russia
Journal of Public Economics, 2000, 76, (1), 87-104 View citations (187)

1999

Appraising Workfare
World Bank Research Observer, 1999, 14, (1), 31-48 View citations (31)
Are poorer states worse at targeting their poor?
Economics Letters, 1999, 65, (3), 373-377 View citations (19)
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 (182)
See also Working Paper (1997)
Benefit Incidence, Public Spending Reforms, and the Timing of Program Capture
World Bank Economic Review, 1999, 13, (2), 257-73 View citations (69)
China's Lagging Poor Areas
American Economic Review, 1999, 89, (2), 301-305 View citations (20)
Is More Targeting Consistent with Less Spending?
International Tax and Public Finance, 1999, 6, (3), 411-419 View citations (13)
See also Working Paper (1999)
When Economic Reform is Faster Then Statistical Reform: Measuring and Explaining Income Inequality in Rural China
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1999, 61, (1), 33-56 View citations (50)

1998

Are there dynamic gains from a poor-area development program?
Journal of Public Economics, 1998, 67, (1), 65-85 View citations (69)
See also Working Paper (1996)
Does aggregation hide the harmful effects of inequality on growth?
Economics Letters, 1998, 61, (1), 73-77 View citations (46)
Farm productivity and rural poverty in India
Journal of Development Studies, 1998, 34, (4), 62-85 View citations (137)
See also Working Paper (1998)
Transient Poverty in Postreform Rural China
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1998, 26, (2), 338-357 View citations (135)

1997

A Comment on Rati Ram's Test of the Kuznets Hypothesis
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1997, 46, (1), 187-90 View citations (3)
Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?
Economics Letters, 1997, 56, (1), 51-57 View citations (239)
See also Working Paper (1997)
Decomposing social indicators using distributional data
Journal of Econometrics, 1997, 77, (1), 125-139 View citations (114)
See also Working Paper (1995)
Famines and Economics
Journal of Economic Literature, 1997, 35, (3), 1205-1242 View citations (47)
See also Working Paper (1996)
Good and bad growth: The human development reports
World Development, 1997, 25, (5), 631-638 View citations (94)
Macroeconomic Crises and Poverty Monitoring: A Case Study for India
Review of Development Economics, 1997, 1, (2), 135-152
Risk and Insurance in Village India: Comment
Econometrica, 1997, 65, (1), 171-184 View citations (109)
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 (290)
See also Working Paper (1996)

1996

Data in transition: Assessing rural living standards in Southern China
China Economic Review, 1996, 7, (1), 23-56 View citations (92)
Growth divergence due to spatial externalities
Economics Letters, 1996, 53, (2), 227-232 View citations (28)
How Important to India's Poor Is the Sectoral Composition of Economic Growth?
World Bank Economic Review, 1996, 10, (1), 1-25 View citations (222)
How Well Can Method Substitute for Data? Five Experiments in Poverty Analysis
World Bank Research Observer, 1996, 11, (2), 199-221 View citations (18)
Issues in Measuring and Modelling Poverty
Economic Journal, 1996, 106, (438), 1328-43 View citations (97)
See also Working Paper (1996)
When Method Matters: Monitoring Poverty in Bangladesh
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1996, 44, (4), 761-92 View citations (20)

1995

Growth and poverty: Evidence for developing countries in the 1980s
Economics Letters, 1995, 48, (3-4), 411-417 View citations (76)
Poverty and Household Size
Economic Journal, 1995, 105, (433), 1415-34 View citations (218)
See also Working Paper (1994)
Testing a social safety net
Journal of Public Economics, 1995, 57, (2), 175-199 View citations (14)

1994

How Robust Is a Poverty Profile?
World Bank Economic Review, 1994, 8, (1), 75-102 View citations (149)
See also Working Paper (1993)
How well do static indicators identify the chronically poor?
Journal of Public Economics, 1994, 53, (3), 367-394 View citations (54)
IS POVERTY INCREASING IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD?
Review of Income and Wealth, 1994, 40, (4), 359-376 View citations (13)
See also Working Paper (1993)
Impacts on rural poverty of land-based targeting: Further results for Bangladesh
World Development, 1994, 22, (6), 823-838 View citations (16)
Measuring Social Welfare with and without Poverty Lines
American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 359-64 View citations (24)
Poverty rankings using noisy data on living standards
Economics Letters, 1994, 45, (4), 481-485 View citations (18)
Transfer Benefits from Public-Works Employment: Evidence for Rural India
Economic Journal, 1994, 104, (427), 1346-69 View citations (67)

1993

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 (5)
See also Chapter (2006)
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 (32)
Employment and Length of the Working Week in a Unionized Economy in which Hours of Work Influence Productivity
The Economic Record, 1993, 69, (4), 428-436 View citations (2)
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 (290)
Reciprocity without commitment: Characterization and performance of informal insurance arrangements
Journal of Development Economics, 1993, 40, (1), 1-24 View citations (259)

1992

Does Undernutrition Respond to Incomes and Prices? Dominance Tests for Indonesia
World Bank Economic Review, 1992, 6, (1), 109-24 View citations (8)
See also Working Paper (1991)
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 (343)
On "Hunger and Public Action": A Review Article
World Bank Research Observer, 1992, 7, (1), 1-16

1991

A Dynamic Econometric Model of Agricultural Wage Determination in Bangladesh
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1991, 53, (4), 361-76 View citations (28)
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 (103)
QUANTIFYING ABSOLUTE POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
Review of Income and Wealth, 1991, 37, (4), 345-361 View citations (91)
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 (46)
The impact on poverty of food pricing reforms: A welfare analysis for Indonesia
Journal of Policy Modeling, 1991, 13, (2), 281-299 View citations (48)
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 (22)
See also Working Paper (1990)
Urban-rural cost-of-living differentials in a developing economy
Journal of Urban Economics, 1991, 29, (1), 113-127 View citations (17)

1990

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
Income Effects on Undernutrition
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1990, 38, (3), 489-515 View citations (32)
On the coverage of public employment schemes for poverty alleviation
Journal of Development Economics, 1990, 34, (1-2), 57-79 View citations (15)
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 (78)
Rural indebtedness in the Punjab 1878: Results of a household survey
Explorations in Economic History, 1990, 27, (2), 178-196

1989

Land-contingent poverty alleviation schemes
World Development, 1989, 17, (8), 1223-1233 View citations (9)
Targeted policies for poverty alleviation under imperfect information: Algorithms and applications
Journal of Policy Modeling, 1989, 11, (2), 213-224 View citations (43)
The welfare cost of housing standards: Theory with application to Jakarta
Journal of Urban Economics, 1989, 26, (2), 197-211 View citations (1)

1988

Expected Poverty under Risk-Induced Welfare Variability
Economic Journal, 1988, 98, (393), 1171-82 View citations (105)
Liberalization and inequality in Sri Lanka: A comment
Journal of Development Economics, 1988, 28, (2), 247-255
Rational expectations as long-run equilibria: Tests for Indian securities
Economics Letters, 1988, 26, (4), 363-367 View citations (2)
Social Security in a "Moral Economy": An Empirical Analysis for Java
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1988, 70, (1), 36-44 View citations (66)

1987

Towards a theory of famine relief policy
Journal of Public Economics, 1987, 33, (1), 21-39 View citations (1)
Trade and stabilization: Another look at British India's controversial foodgrain exports
Explorations in Economic History, 1987, 24, (4), 354-370 View citations (7)

1986

On Expectations Formation when Future Welfare is Contemplated
Kyklos, 1986, 39, (4), 564-573
On some estimates of an asian savings function
Economics Letters, 1986, 20, (2), 121-124 View citations (1)
Testing Market Integration
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1986, 68, (1), 102-109 View citations (82)

1985

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)
The Performance of Rice Markets in Bangladesh during the 1974 Famine
Economic Journal, 1985, 95, (377), 15-29 View citations (14)

1984

How Much Is a Transfer Payment Worth to a Rural Worker?
Oxford Economic Papers, 1984, 36, (3), 478-89 View citations (4)
The social appraisal of local public spending using revealed fiscal preferences
Journal of Urban Economics, 1984, 16, (1), 46-64 View citations (2)

1983

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

1979

A Note on Intra-Urban Wage Differentials1
Urban Studies, 1979, 16, (2), 213-215

Undated

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

Books

2016

The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy
OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (82)

2014

Right to Work? Assessing India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar
World Bank Publications, The World Bank View citations (29)

2008

Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam
World Bank Publications, The World Bank View citations (40)

Chapters

2014

Trade Insulation as Social Protection
A chapter in The Economics of Food Price Volatility, 2014, pp 345-366 View citations (6)
See also Working Paper (2013)

2008

Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs
Elsevier View citations (63)
See also Working Paper (2005)

2006

DOES HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION BEHAVE AS A MARTINGALE? A TEST FOR RURAL SOUTH INDIA
Chapter 6 in Econometrics, Statistics And Computational Approaches In Food And Health Sciences, 2006, pp 99-103
See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (1993)
On the Consistency of Poverty Lines
Springer

1995

Poverty and policy
Chapter 41 in Handbook of Development Economics, 1995, vol. 3, Part 2, pp 2551-2657 View citations (177)
See also Working Paper (1993)