Ravi Kanbur
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 206805 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ravi Kanbur |
| NOMBRES | Ravi |
| APELLIDO | Kanbur |
| FIRMA | KANBUR R |
| AFILIACIONES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8964-3333 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 92 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 390 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 10 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Distance, prospects, and migration to towns and cities
Is There A Development Economics Anymore
The social welfare value of the global food system
How does predistribution affect redistribution
An Analysis of Moral Motives in Economic and Social Decisions
Qui veut (dé)réglementer le travail dans les pays en développement? La théorie des insiders‐outsiders en question
Selon l'approche «insiders‐outsiders», qui domine le discours sur le droit du travail, la législation protectrice de l'emploi favorise les travailleurs dotés d'un emploi stable, les insiders, au détriment des outsiders, moins bien lotis. Les outsiders devraient de ce fait être favorables à la déréglementation. Les auteurs observent pourtant que, dans les pays en développement, ceux‐ci sont au contraire très majoritairement attachés à la protectio…
Promoting education under distortionary taxation
A common claim in the policy discourse is that a government wishing to achieve equality of opportunity should use public provision of education for equalisation of opportunities rather than income taxation, which only equalizes incomes. We develop a framework in which the tax and education provision rules in the welfarist and non-welfarist/equality of opportunity cases can be transparently compared. We show that in addition to education policies,…
Le débat sur l'informalité dans une série d'articles de la Revue internationale du Travail
L'auteur présente ici l'un des numéros de la Revue internationale du Travail publiés à l'occasion du 100 e anniversaire de celle‐ci. Ce numéro rassemble dix articles publiés dans la Revue entre 1975 et 2016 et consacrés exclusivement à l'analyse de l'informalité. L'auteur commence par tracer le cadre analytique, avec les origines de la notion d'informalité, puis commente les articles de ce numéro du centenaire, en les situant dans la littérature …
When Distance Drives Destination, Towns Can Stimulate Development
While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of individuals from this region and information on the possible destinations from the census, this study documents, through dyadic regressions and controlling fo…
Efficiency and Equity in a Society-Economy Integrated Model
Efficiency and equity in a society-economy integrated model
Social Externalities and Economic Analysis
Assessing statistical similarity in dietary intakes of women of reproductive age in Bangladesh
Women of reproductive age (WRA) need adequate nutrient intakes to sustain a healthy pregnancy, support fetal growth, and breastfeed after childbirth. However, data on women's dietary intake in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are limited, and assessment of differences between dietary intakes of pregnant or lactating women compared with that of nonpregnant, nonlactating (NPNL) women is untested. Using single, multiple-pass 24-h dietary rec…
Sustainable Development Goals and the Study of Economic Inequality
Decomposing the Contribution of Migration to Poverty Reduction
In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses realized by the various migration streams. We present a simple but powerful decomposition methodology that uses panel data to measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new insights that are provided – in particular on the role of migration to secondar…
In praise of snapshots
The conventional justification for moving from income distribution to intergenerational mobility analysis is that the movie encompasses the snapshot and is normatively superior as the basis for assessing policy. Such a perspective underpins many an argument for shifting the focus from income redistribution, which is said to equalize outcomes, to equalizing opportunity by increasing mobility through such policies as equal provision of public educa…
Immiserizing Growth
Immiserizing Growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom. It is not a new concept, appearing such figures as Malthus, Ricardo and Marx. It is also not empirically insignificant, occurring in between 10% and 35% of cases, depending on the data set and the growth and poverty measures used. In spite of this, it has not received its due attention in the academic literature, dominated by the prevailing narrative that ‘gro…
Minimum Wage Competition between Local Governments in China
The theory of fiscal and regulatory competition between jurisdictions is more advanced than its empirical testing. This is particularly true of labour regulation in general, and minimum wage regulation in particular, and especially so for developing countries. This paper utilises the spatial lag methodology to study city-level strategic interactions in setting and enforcing minimum wage standards during 2004–2012 in China. We manually collect a p…
Introduction to the Special Issue in Celebration of Amartya Sen's 85th Birthday
Where to create jobs to reduce poverty
Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness
Inequality indices are traditionally interpreted as measures of deviations from equality. This article interprets them instead as statistical tests for a null of fairness within well-defined income generating processes. We find that the likelihood ratio (LR) test for fairness versus unfairness within two such processes are proportional to Theil’s first and second inequality indices respectively. The LR values may be used either as a test statisti…
The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Climate Justice
Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly. It brings together justice between generations and justice within generations. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals summit in September 2015, and the Conference of Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in December 2015, brought climate justice center stage in global discussions. In the run up to…
Poor People on the Front Line
The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on socio-economic trends. An analysis of hundreds of baseline scenarios for future economic development shows that the drivers of poverty eradication differ across countries. In this chapter, two representative scenarios are selected from these hundreds, one optimistic and one pessimistic regarding poverty. Results from sector analyses of climate change i…
Introduction to Volume 3
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How Serious is the Neglect of Intra-Household Inequality
Journal Article How Serious is the Neglect of Intra-Household Inequality? Get access Lawrence Haddad, Lawrence Haddad University of Warwick, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ravi Kanbur Ravi Kanbur University of Warwick and World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 402, 1 September 1990, Pages 866–881, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Economic Policy, Distribution and Poverty
The Standard of Living
Journal Article The Standard of Living Get access The Standard of Living. BY AMARTYA SEN with John Muellbauer, Ravi Kanbur, Keith Hart, Bernard Williams, and edited by Geoffrey Hawthorn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv+ 125. £15.00, US$24.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 32101 8.) Albert Weale Albert Weale University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 9…
Economics, Social Science and Development
Migration selectivity and the evolution of spatial inequality
The basic neoclassical model of migration suggests that migration is induced by real income differentials across locations and will, ceteris paribus, serve to reduce those differentials. And yet there is evidence on growing spatial inequality despite increased migration from poorer to richer areas. At a theoretical level, one route to addressing this potential inconsistency is to introduce agglomeration effects into the standard neoclassical setu…
Social Protection and Poverty Reduction
Epistemology, Normative Theory and Poverty Analysis
Turning a Blind Eye
In many countries, non-compliance with minimum wage legislation is widespread and authorities may be seen as having turned a blind eye to legislation they have themselves passed. We show that turning a blind eye can indeed be an equilibrium phenomenon with "ex post" credibility, in a model of minimum wage policy with imperfect competition, imperfect enforcement and imperfect commitment. Since credible enforcement requires costly "ex post" transfe…
Food Subsidies and Poverty Alleviation
Journal Article Food Subsidies and Poverty Alleviation Get access Timothy Besley, Timothy Besley All Souls College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ravi Kanbur Ravi Kanbur University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 98, Issue 392, 1 September 1988, Pages 701–719, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233909 Published: 01 September 19…
Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Strife. An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Why secondary towns can be important for poverty reduction – A migrant perspective
Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty-first Century
The New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad)
This article, originally delivered as a public lecture in Pretoria at a forum hosted by the Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN), outlines the key structural features of the newly launched and South African government-driven New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), as well as the main ways by which it intends to pursue its goal of poverty reduction in Africa. Kanbur argues that such are the needs of Africa's poor that NEPAD …
Community and anti-poverty targeting
The policy significance of inequality decompositions
Does philanthropy reduce inequality
Conceptualizing inclusive development
This paper undertakes three tasks. The first and major task is the definition of inclusive development, in particular distinguishing it from growth, pro-poor growth and inclusive growth and differentiating these from each other. The paper then proceeds to apply this definition to specific issues focusing on rural infrastructure. The second task is to discuss the relationship between rural infrastructure and inclusive development. The third and fi…
The African peer review mechanism (APRM)
The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has been proposed as a key element of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). It is important that the APRM be debated thoroughly in terms of concept and design. This paper is a contribution to the debate. The paper derives design criteria for peer review mechanisms after looking at some functioning examples. These criteria are—competence, independence and competition. It is argued that, whil…
Development economics and the compensation principle
Dynastic inequality, mobility and equality of opportunity
Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality
We develop a search‐theoretic model of contractual dualism in formal and informal labour markets. The model (i) provides the micro‐underpinnings for endogenous determination of employer market power in the formal and informal sectors, (ii) offers a unified and coherent set‐up whereby a host of salient features of developing country labour markets can be explained together and (iii) places for the first time the Stiglerian prescription of the opti…
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Spatial inequality and development Get access Ravi Kanbur, Ravi Kanbur Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Tony Venables Tony Venables Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 1–2, https://doi.org/10.1093/jnlecg/lbh059 Published: 07 January 2005
Urban bias and the political economy of agricultural reform
Where to create jobs to reduce poverty
Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness
Inequality indices are traditionally interpreted as measures of deviations from equality. This article interprets them instead as statistical tests for a null of fairness within well-defined income generating processes. We find that the likelihood ratio (LR) test for fairness versus unfairness within two such processes are proportional to Theil’s first and second inequality indices respectively. The LR values may be used either as a test statisti…
Risky agricultural markets
Markets, Entrepreneurs and Liberty
Urban bias and the political economy of agricultural reform
The Standard of Living
Journal Article The Standard of Living Get access The Standard of Living. BY AMARTYA SEN with John Muellbauer, Ravi Kanbur, Keith Hart, Bernard Williams, and edited by Geoffrey Hawthorn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv+ 125. £15.00, US$24.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 32101 8.) Albert Weale Albert Weale University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 9…
Food Subsidies and Poverty Alleviation
Journal Article Food Subsidies and Poverty Alleviation Get access Timothy Besley, Timothy Besley All Souls College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ravi Kanbur Ravi Kanbur University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 98, Issue 392, 1 September 1988, Pages 701–719, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233909 Published: 01 September 19…
The Standard of Living
How Serious is the Neglect of Intra-Household Inequality
Journal Article How Serious is the Neglect of Intra-Household Inequality? Get access Lawrence Haddad, Lawrence Haddad University of Warwick, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ravi Kanbur Ravi Kanbur University of Warwick and World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 402, 1 September 1990, Pages 866–881, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Policy-Oriented Analysis of Poverty and the Social Dimensions of Structural Adjustment
The lucky few amidst economic decline
Cote d'Ivoire's economy declined drastically in the second half of the 1980s. The incidence of poverty climbed from 30 percent in 1985 to 35 percent in 1987, and jumped to 46 percent in 1988. But how widespread was the collapse in living standards Did a lucky few escape the decline Using panels of data from the Cote d'Ivoire Living Standards Survey (for 1985-86, 1986-87, and 1987-88) allowed the authors to track the level of living for the same h…
Unitary Versus Collective Models of the Household
Most development objectives focus on the well-being of individuals. Policies are targeted to increase the percentage of individuals who avoid poverty, who can read, who are free from hunger and illness, or who can find gainful employment. Individual welfare, however, is based in large part on a complex set of interactions among family members. Until recently most policy analyses implicitly viewed the household as having only one set of preference…
Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment
Journal Article Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment: Volume I: Issues Papers Get access Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment: Volume I: Issues Papers. Edited by (Susan) Horton, (Ravi) Kanbur and (Dipak). Mazumdar (Washington, DC:: World Bank, 1994. Pp. xi+388. £23.95. paperback. ISBN 0 8213 2680 5.)Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment: Volume 2: Case Studies. Edited by (Susan) Horton, (Ravi) Kanbur and (Dipak). Mazumdar (Washington, DC:: Worl…
The dynamics of welfare gains and losses
This article uses panel survey data for Côte d'Ivoire to investigate the determinants of welfare gains and losses of households over time. A first‐difference model is estimated which takes account of initial conditions. For urban areas, it was found that human capital is not only a key explanatory factor for levels of welfare, but also the most important endowment to explain welfare changes over time. In rural areas, physical capital, especially …
Tagging and Taxing
This paper explores aspects of the optimal design of tax/transfer schemes that involve elements of both ‘tagging’ (the use of categorical benefits) and ‘means‐testing’ (income‐relation of benefits). Simulations suggest a striking qualitative dissimilarity between the group‐specific schedules optimally imposed on poorer and richer groups: broadly speaking, the optimal marginal tax rate is decreasing in income among the latter but increasing among …
Which Regional Inequality? The Evolution of Rural–Urban and Inland–Coastal Inequality in China from 1983 to 1995
This paper develops a unified empirical framework for describing the relative contribution of rural–urban and inland–coastal inequality to overall regional inequality in China during the 1980's and 1990's. The framework assesses rural–urban and inland–coastal inequalities from the same data set, presents results for a sufficiently long time period to transcend short-term fluctuations, allows for differential price changes, and applies a consisten…
What Difference Do Polarisation Measures Make? An Application to China
"In recent years there has been much discussion of the difference between inequality and polarisation. The vast literature on inequality is held to miss out key features of distributional change, which are better described as changes in polarisation. Axioms have been proposed which capture some of these differences, and measures of polarisation, as distinct from inequality, have been suggested. The theoretical distinctions proposed in this litera…
Economic Policy, Distribution and Poverty
Política económica, distribución y pobreza
Economics, Social Science and Development
The New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad)
This article, originally delivered as a public lecture in Pretoria at a forum hosted by the Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN), outlines the key structural features of the newly launched and South African government-driven New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), as well as the main ways by which it intends to pursue its goal of poverty reduction in Africa. Kanbur argues that such are the needs of Africa's poor that NEPAD …
Development economics and the compensation principle
The African peer review mechanism (APRM)
The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has been proposed as a key element of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). It is important that the APRM be debated thoroughly in terms of concept and design. This paper is a contribution to the debate. The paper derives design criteria for peer review mechanisms after looking at some functioning examples. These criteria are—competence, independence and competition. It is argued that, whil…
Spatial inequality in education and health care in China
Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China
The paper constructs and analyzes a long‐run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, and finally the period of openness and global integration in the late 1990s. Econometric analysis establishes that regional inequality is expl…
Community and anti-poverty targeting
Journal of Economic Inequality Forum
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