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Ravi Kanbur
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 506
Citations - 20297
Ravi Kanbur is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Inequality. The author has an hindex of 61, co-authored 498 publications receiving 19422 citations. Previous affiliations of Ravi Kanbur include University of Tampere & Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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World development report 2000/2001 : attacking poverty
Ravi Kanbur,Christina Malmberg Calvo,Monica Das Gupta,Christiaan Grootaert,Victoria Kwakwa,Nora Lustig +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the dimensions of poverty and how to create a better world, free of poverty, and explore the nature, and evolution of poverty to present a framework for action.
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Jeux sans frontieres: tax competition and tax coordination when countries differ in size
Ravi Kanbur,Michael Keen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a simple two-country model to address a range of consequent policy concerns, focusing particularly on the role of country size, and show that differences in size exacerbate the inefficiency from non-cooperative behavior, harming both countries.
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Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China A Journey through Central Planning, Reform, and Openness
Ravi Kanbur,Xiaobo Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a long-run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present was constructed and analyzed, showing that 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 late 1960s and 1970s and finally the period of openness and global integration in the late 1990s.
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The Standard of Living.
Albert Weale,Amartya Sen,John Muellbauer,Ravi Kanbur,Keith Hart,Bernard Williams,Geoffrey Hawthorn +6 more
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Which Regional Inequality? The Evolution of Rural–Urban and Inland–Coastal Inequality in China from 1983 to 1995☆
Ravi Kanbur,Xiaobo Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: This paper developed 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.