Firebirds mid-courter Kim Ravallion was warned off-season back surgery could be the end of her career. Since undergoing surgery late last year, the 30-year-old has begun her months long road to ...

World Bank researchers have developed new poverty measures that take social effects on welfare seriously (Ravallion and Chen, 2011). Technically, these are called “weakly relative” measures, meaning ...

The model relating consumption to landholding (and other explanatory variables) was used to simulate these counterfactuals; Ravallion and van de Walle (2008) describe the methods in detail. What we ...

Before we set the goal, we should fix the goalposts. 1 Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion, “The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty.” ...

The use of PPPs in the measurement of regional and global inequality and to measure regional and global poverty is presented and in part reviews the work of Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion and ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Demographic Research Vol. 20, JANUARY - JUNE 2009 Does fertility decrease household consum... This ...

PRINCETON - The late, sharp-witted economist Michael Mussa, my first boss at the International Monetary Fund, once told me that every statistic must ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Demographic Research Vol. 37, JULY - DECEMBER 2017 Economic crisis promotes fertility decli ...

Growth Incidence Curve (GIC): The Growth Incidence Curve is a conceptually useful tool to analyze the impact of aggregate economic growth over a wide range of the distribution (Ravallion and Chen, ...

Pearson Australia: Frenchs Forest, N. S. W. Cartwright, N and J. Hardie (2012) Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better, Oxford University Press Ravallion, M. (2009) Should the ...

As economists Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion have noted, it allows for minimal food consumption and little else. In 2012, $1.90 translated to a meager 30 rupees a day in purchasing-power-parity ...