Martin Ravallion is Director of the World Bank's Development Research Group--the Bank's research department. For 20 years his main research interests have been poverty in developing countries and policies for fighting it. He has advised numerous governments and international agencies on this topic, and has written three books and 200 papers in scholarly journals and edited volumes.
Articles
Fighting Poverty one Experiment at a Time: A Review Essay on Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Poor Economics, Journal of Economic Literature (2012)
Banerjee and Duflo offer a coherent vision for an economics of poverty and anti-poverty policy....
Mashup Indices of Development, World Bank Research Observer (2012)
Countries are increasingly being ranked by some new “mashup index of development,” defined as a...
A Comparative Perspective on Poverty Reduction in Brazil, China and India, World Bank Research Observer (2011)
Brazil, China, and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying...
Books
Contributions to Books
Poverty Lines Across the World, Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty (2012)
National poverty lines vary greatly across the world, from under $1 per person per day...
Partially Awakened Giants: Uneven Growth in China and India (with Shubham Chaudhuri), Dancing with Giants: China, India and the Global Economy (2006)
The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China...
Unpublished Papers
The Developing World's Bulging (But Vulnerable) Middle Class, Policy Research Working Paper 4816 World Bank (2009)
The “developing world’s middle class” is defined as those who live above the median poverty...
Bailing Out the World's Poorest, Policy Research Working Paper 4763 World Bank (2008)
While the 2008 financial crisis is global in nature, it is likely to have heterogeneous...
Are There Lessons for Africa from China’s Success against Poverty? (2008)
At the outset of China’s reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate...
Decentralizing Eligibility for a Federal Antipoverty Program, Policy Research Working Paper, World Bank (2008)
In theory, the informational advantage of decentralizing the eligibility criteria for a federal antipoverty program...
Dollar a Day Revisited (2008)
The paper presents the first major update of the international “$1 a day” poverty line,...