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2024

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D-Index
142
Citations
90720
World Ranking
11
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Overview

Martin Ravallion was affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their research mainly focused on social sciences, with a particular emphasis on sociology, political science, economics, and general health professions. The subfields they contributed to included sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, general health professions, and gender studies.

The scientist's work explored several key topics, including income, poverty, and inequality; fiscal policy and economic growth; China's socioeconomic reforms and governance; gender, labor, and family dynamics; employment and welfare studies; social policy and reform studies; and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Among the frequent publication venues where their work appeared were the SSRN Electronic Journal, World Development, The Journal of Economic Inequality, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and the Annual Review of Economics.

Frequently collaborated with coauthors such as Michael Lokshin, Shaohua Chen, Iván Torre, and Vladimir Kolchin.

Selected recent papers include:

  • On Measuring Global Poverty (2020), Annual Review of Economics
  • Reconciling the conflicting narratives on poverty in China (2021), Journal of Development Economics
  • Ethnic inequality and poverty in Malaysia since May 1969. Part 2: Poverty (2020), World Development
  • Is that really a Kuznets curve? Turning points for income inequality in China (2022), The Journal of Economic Inequality
  • Missing Top Income Recipients (2022), The Journal of Economic Inequality

Martin Ravallion also authored books published by the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, including "Is Social Protection a Luxury Good?" (2022), "Scarred but Wiser: World War 2'S COVID Legacy" (2020), and "Would Mexican Migrants be Willing to Guarantee Americans a Basic Income?" (2021).

During their career, they received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2015.

Best Publications

  • China's (uneven) progress against poverty

    Martin Ravallion;Shaohua Chen

  • The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

    Shaohua Chen;Martin Ravallion

  • Growth, inequality, and poverty : looking beyond averages

    Martin Ravallion

  • Growth, inequality, and poverty : looking beyond averages

    Martin Ravallion

  • The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty

    Shaohua Chen;Martin Ravallion

  • Measuring pro-poor growth

    Martin Ravallion;Shaohua Chen

  • How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?

    Shaohua Chen;Martin Ravallion

  • How important to India's poor is the sectoral composition of economic growth?

    Martin Ravallion;Gaurav Datt

  • Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures : a decomposition with applications to Brazil and India in the 1980s

    Gaurav Datt;Martin Ravallion

  • Measuring Social Welfare With and Without Poverty Lines

    Martin Ravallion

  • Human Development in Poor Countries: On the Role of Private Incomes and Public Services

    Sudhir Anand;Martin Ravallion

  • Poverty and policy

    Michael Lipton;Martin Ravallion

  • Pro-poor growth : A primer

    Martin Ravallion

  • New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty

    Martin Ravallion;Shaohua Chen;Prem Sangraula

  • China's (uneven) progress against poverty

    Martin Ravallion;Shaohua Chen

  • Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981-2004

    Shaohua Chen;Martin Ravallion

  • Poverty lines in theory and practice

    Martin Ravallion

  • How did the world's poorest fare in the 1990s ?

    Shaohua Chen;Martin Ravallion

  • What can new survey data tell us about recent changes in distribution and poverty

    Martin Ravallion;Shaohua Chen

  • Does Child Labour Displace Schooling? Evidence on Behavioral Responses to an Enrollment Subsidy

    Martin Ravallion;Quentin Wodon

  • Testing Market Integration

    Martin Ravallion

  • How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s?

    Shaohua Chen;Martin Ravallion

  • Dollar a day revisited

    Martin Ravallion;Shaohua Chen;Prem Sangraula

  • Reciprocity without commitment: Characterization and performance of informal insurance arrangements

    Stephen Coate;Martin Ravallion

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique van de Walle
Dominique van de Walle Center for Global Development
Gaurav Datt
Gaurav Datt Monash University
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Francisco H. G. Ferreira London School of Economics and Political Science
Andrei A. Levchenko
Andrei A. Levchenko University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu Cornell University
Menno Pradhan
Menno Pradhan Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Adam Wagstaff
Adam Wagstaff World Bank
Quentin Wodon
Quentin Wodon World Bank

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