Ravi Kanbur

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Sanjiv M. Ravi Kanbur^[1] (born 28 August 1954),^[2] is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University.^[3] He worked for the World Bank for almost two decades and was the director of the World Development Report.^[4]

Kanbur is president of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) from September 2016 to September 2018. He started serving a year as president elect from September 2015.^[5]

Early life

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Ravi Kanbur is British,^[6] he was born in India and brought up in India and England.^[7]

Education

Kanbur gained his degree in economics from the Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge in 1975. He studied for his masters (1979) and doctorate (1981), also in economics, at Worcester College, University of Oxford.^[7][8] He studied under the Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen and Sen has stated that his association with Kanbur has been beneficial to his writing.^[9]

Resignation as Director of the World Development Report

In May 2000, Kanbur resigned as director and lead author of the World Bank's World Development Report. His resignation followed the publication of the initial draft of the 2000/2001 report on the internet. Kanbur's resignation came a year after the resignation of the World Bank's senior vice-president and chief economist, Joseph Stiglitz.^[10]

2000/2001 Report on the Internet

Kanbur's initial draft argued that, "anti-poverty strategies must emphasise 'empowerment' (increasing poor people's capacity to influence state institutions and social norms) and security (minimising the consequences of economic shocks for the poorest) as well as opportunity (access to assets)."^[11] The final version of the report still contained the three central pillars of: (a) empowerment, (b) security and (c) opportunity, however the order was changed to (a) opportunity (with emphasis given to market-driven economic growth and liberalisation as ways of reducing poverty), (b) empowerment and, (c) security.^[12][13] The World Bank denied that US treasury secretary Larry Summers or anyone else had influenced the report to make it less radical.^[6]

Awards

• 1991 Quality of Research Discovery Award from the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA)^[14] for the paper How serious is the neglect of intrahousehold inequality? ^[15]
• 1994 Honorary Professor of Economics, University of Warwick^[7][8]

Personal life

Kanbur is married to Margaret Grieco, Professor of Transport and Society at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland.^[7]

Bibliography

Books

• Kanbur, Ravi (2003). Q-squared, combining qualitative and quantitative methods in poverty appraisal. Delhi Bangalore: Permanent Black Distributed by Orient Longman.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Kadekodi, Gopal; Rao, Vijayendra (2008). Development in Karnataka: challenges of governance, equity, and empowerment. New Delhi: Academic Foundation.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Beall, Jo; Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb (2010). Urbanization and development: multidisciplinary perspectives. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo (2012). Latin American urban development into the twenty first century: towards a renewed perspective on the city. New York: United Nations University.
  ISBN 9780230371545
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Beall, Jo; Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb (2012). Urbanization and development in Asia: multidimensional perspectives. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Dev, S. Mahendra; Galab, S.; Alivelu, G. (2012). Organising poor women: the Andhra Pradesh experience. New Delhi: Academic Foundation in association with Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad.
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• Kanbur, Ravi (2000), "Income distribution and development", in
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• Kanbur, Ravi (2003), "Q-squared?: a commentry on qualitative and quantitative poverty appraisal", in Kanbur, Ravi (ed.), Q-squared, combining qualitative and quantitative methods in poverty appraisal, Delhi Bangalore: Permanent Black Distributed by Orient Longman, pp. 2–27,
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• Kanbur, Ravi (2004), "On obnoxious markets", in Pattanaik, Prasanta K.; Cullenberg, Stephen (eds.), Globalization, culture, and the limits of the market: essays in economics and philosophy, Themes in Economics, New Delhi New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 39–61,
  ISBN 9780195664461
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• Kanbur, Ravi (2006), "The economics of international aid", in
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• Kanbur, Ravi (2014), "Social protection: consensus and challenges", in
  ISBN 9780198706083
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• Kanbur, Ravi (2015), "Mitigating risk: social protection and the rural poor", in
  ISBN 9780896295759

• Kanbur, S. M. (August 1979). "Of risk taking and the personal distribution of income". Journal of Political Economy. 87 (4): 769–797.
  S2CID 154399788
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• Kanbur, S. M. (October 1979). "Impatience, information and risk taking in a general equilibrium model of occupational choice review of economic studies". Review of Economic Studies. 46 (4): 707–718.
  JSTOR 2297037
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• Kanbur, S. M. (Winter 1980). "A note on risk taking, entrepreneurship, and Schumpeter". History of Political Economy. 12 (4): 489–498.
  doi:10.1215/00182702-12-4-489
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• Kanbur, S. M. (April 1981). "Risk taking and taxation: an alternative perspective". Journal of Public Economics. 15 (2): 163–184.
  doi:10.1016/0047-2727(81)90031-1
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• Kanbur, S. M.; Banerjee, Biswajit (February 1981). "On the specification and estimation of macro rural-urban migration functions: with an application to Indian data". Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 43 (1): 7–29.
  PMID 12264625
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• Kanbur, S. M. Ravi (June 1982). "Increases in risk with kinked payoff functions". Journal of Economic Theory. 27 (1): 219–228.
  doi:10.1016/0022-0531(82)90024-2
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• Kanbur, S. M. Ravi (November 1983). "Labour supply under uncertainty with piecewise linear tax regimes". Economica. 50 (200): 379–394.
  JSTOR 2554301
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• Kanbur, S. M. Ravi (November 1984). "How to analyse commodity price stabilisation? A review article". Oxford Economic Papers. 36 (3): 336–358.
  doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041642
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• Kanbur, S. M. R.; Anand, Sudhir (1985). "Poverty under the Kuznets Process". The Economic Journal. 95 (Supplement: Conference Papers): 42–50.
  JSTOR 2232868
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  doi:10.1016/0304-3878(86)90124-0
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• Kanbur, S. M. Ravi (December 1987). "Structural adjustment, macroeconomic adjustment and poverty: A methodology for analysis". World Development. 15 (12): 1515–1526.
  doi:10.1016/0305-750X(87)90234-8
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Stromberg, Jan-Olov (August 1988). "Income transitions and income distribution dominance". Journal of Economic Theory. 45 (2): 408–416.
  doi:10.1016/0022-0531(88)90278-5
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  doi:10.1016/0176-2680(92)90055-L
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• Kanbur, S. M. Ravi; Keen, Michael (September 1993). "Jeux sans frontières: tax competition and tax coordination when countries differ in size". The American Economic Review. 83 (4): 877–892.
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• Kanbur, S. M. Ravi; Anand, Sudhir (February 1993). "The Kuznets process and the inequality—development relationship". Journal of Development Economics. 40 (1): 25–52.
  doi:10.1016/0304-3878(93)90103-T
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• Kanbur, S. M. R.; Anand, Sudhir (June 1993). "Inequality and development a critique". Journal of Development Economics. 41 (1): 19–43.
  doi:10.1016/0304-3878(93)90035-L
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Keen, Michael; Toumala, Matti (May 1994). "Labor supply and targeting in poverty alleviation programs". The World Bank Economic Review. 8 (2): 191–211.
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  doi:10.1111/j.1468-0084.1995.mp57003007.x
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Grootaert, Christiaan; Oh, Gi-Taik (1997). "The dynamics of welfare gains and losses: An African case study". Journal of Development Studies. 33 (5): 635–657.
  doi:10.1080/00220389708422487
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo (December 1999). "Which regional inequality? The evolution of rural–urban and inland–coastal inequality in China from 1983 to 1995" (PDF). Journal of Comparative Economics. 27 (4): 686–701.
  doi:10.1006/jcec.1999.1612
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• Kanbur, Ravi (June 2001). "Economic policy, distribution and poverty: the nature of disagreements". World Development. 29 (6): 1083–1094.
  doi:10.1016/S0305-750X(01)00017-1
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• Kanbur, Ravi (March 2002). "Economics, social science and development" (PDF). World Development. 30 (3): 477–486.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Pottebaum, David (October 2002). "A note on public goods dependency". Economics Letters. 77 (2): 233–237.
  doi:10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00126-X
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• Kanbur, Ravi (July–December 2004). "The development of development thinking" (PDF). Journal of Social and Economic Development. 6 (2): 147–158.
• Kanbur, Ravi; Pottebaum, David (2004). "Civil war, public goods and the social wealth of nations" (PDF). Oxford Development Studies. 32 (4): 459–484.
  S2CID 15206123
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo (2005). "Spatial inequality in education and health care in China" (PDF). China Economic Review. 16 (2): 189–204.
  S2CID 7513548
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• Kanbur, Ravi (January–June 2005). "Pareto's revenge" (PDF). Journal of Social and Economic Development. 7 (1): 1–11.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Rapoport, Hillel (January 2005). "Migration selectivity and the evolution of spatial inequality". Journal of Economic Geography. 5 (1): 43–57.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo (February 2005). "Fifty years of regional inequality in China: a journey through central planning, reform, and openness". Review of Development Economics. 9 (1): 87–106.
  S2CID 10375300
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• Kanbur, Ravi (April 2005). "Journal of Economic Inequality forum". Journal of Economic Inequality. 3 (1): 63.
  S2CID 154980958
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Chau, Nancy H. (May 2006). "The race to the bottom, from the bottom". Economica. 73 (290): 193–228.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Chakravarty, Satya R.; Mukherjee, Diganta (June 2006). "Population growth and poverty measurement" (PDF). Social Choice and Welfare. 26 (3): 471–483.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti (December 2006). "Non-welfarist optimal taxation and behavioural public economics". Journal of Economic Surveys. 20 (5): 849–868.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Shaffer, Paul (February 2007). "Epistemology, normative theory and poverty analysis: implications for Q-squared in practice" (PDF). World Development. 35 (2): 183–196.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Dasgupta, Indraneel (September 2007). "Community and class antagonism" (PDF). Journal of Public Economics. 91 (9): 1816–1842.
  S2CID 13225482
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Mukherjee, Diganta (October 2007). "Premature mortality and poverty measurement". Bulletin of Economic Research. 59 (4): 339–359.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti (June 2008). "Moral hazard, income taxation and prospect theory". The Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 110 (2): 321–337.
  S2CID 14237373
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H. (April 2009). "A theory of employment guarantees: contestability, credibility and distributional concerns" (PDF). Journal of Public Economics. 93 (3–4): 482–497.
  S2CID 8919491
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• Kanbur, Ravi (January 2010). "Macro crises and targeting transfers to the poor". Journal of Globalization and Development. 1 (1).
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H. (March 2010). "Turning a blind eye: costly enforcement, credible commitment and minimum wage laws" (PDF). The Economic Journal. 120 (543): 244–269.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Dasgupta, Indraneel (March 2011). "Does philanthropy reduce inequality?". Journal of Economic Inequality. 9 (1): 1–21.
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  doi:10.1007/s10888-011-9185-0
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Tuomala, Matti (September 2011). "Charitable conservatism, poverty radicalism and inequality aversion". Journal of Economic Inequality. 9 (3): 417–431.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo (September 2011). "Latin American urban development into the twenty-first century: towards a renewed perspective on the city". The European Journal of Development Research. 23 (4): 550–568.
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  doi:10.1111/rode.12000
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Bhorat, Haroon; Mayet, Natasha (November 2012). "Estimating the causal effect of enforcement on minimum wage compliance: the case of South Africa". Review of Development Economics. 16 (4): 608–623.
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• Kanbur, Ravi (June 2012). "Aid to the poor in middle income countries and the future of the International Development Association". Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy. 3 (2): 1250008–1250016.
  doi:10.1142/S1793993312500081
  . Paper based on Opening Plenary Address to the joint 13th EADI General Conference and DSA Annual Conference, University of York, UK, 20 September 2011.
• Kanbur, Ravi; Bhorat, Haroon; Mayet, Natasha (September 2012). "Minimum wage violation in South Africa" (PDF). International Labour Review. 151 (3): 277–287.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Chau, Nancy H. (May 2013). "On footloose industries and labor disputes with endogenous information asymmetry". Review of Development Economics. 17 (2): 319–341.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Bhorat, Haroon; Mayet, Natasha (June 2013). "A note on measuring the depth of minimum wage violation" (PDF). Labour/Le Travail. 27 (2): 192–197.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Tuomala, Matti (November 2013). "Relativity, inequality, and optimal nonlinear income taxation". International Economic Review. 54 (4): 1199–1217.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Bhorat, Haroon; Mayet, Natasha (December 2013). "The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa". IZA Journal of Labor & Development. 2 (1): 1.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Ronconi, Lucas; Wedenoja, Leigh (December 2013). "Labour law violations in Chile". International Labour Review. 152 (3–4): 431–444.
  doi:10.1111/j.1564-913X.2013.00187.x
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Zhuang, Juzhong (March 2013). "Urbanization and Inequality in Asia". Asian Development Review. 30 (1): 131–147.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H. (2014). "Contractual dualism, market power and informality".
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Jäntti, Markus; Nyyssölä, Milla; Pirttilä, Jukka (March 2014). "Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory" (PDF). Review of Income and Wealth. 60 (1): 185–205.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Ghani, Ejaz; O'Connell, Stephen (April 2014). "Urbanization, gender, and business creation in the informal sector in India". Economic Premise. 141: 1–8.
• Kanbur, Ravi; Keen, Michael (August 2014). "Thresholds, informality, and partitions of compliance". International Tax and Public Finance. 21 (4): 536–559.
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Fiszbein, Ariel; Yemtsov, Ruslan (September 2014). "Social protection and poverty reduction: global patterns and some targets". World Development. 61 (1): 167–177.
  doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.04.010
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• Kanbur, Ravi; Bhorat, Haroon; Stanwix, Benjamin (October 2014). "Estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment, wages, and non-wage benefits: the case of agriculture in South Africa" (PDF).
  S2CID 17870114
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