Research & Writing
Measurement & Index Numbers
Articles
$1.90 a day: What does it say? (2016)
with Rahul Lahoti, The New Left Review, Volume 97.
The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP): An Overview (2016)
with Rahul Lahoti and Arjun Jayadev, Journal of Globalization and Development, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp.61-108.
Kernel Density Estimation on Grouped Data: The Case of Poverty Assessment (2012)
with Camelia Minoiu, The Journal of Economic Inequality, Volume 18, pp.160-178.
On Measuring Deprivation and Living Standards of Societies in a Multi-Attribute Framework (2011)
with Prasanta Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, Oxford Economic Papers, first published online: August 12.
Inequality Between Groups: Theory and Empirics (2011)
with Arjun Jayadev, World Development, Volume 39, Issue 2, pp. 159-173.
Real Income Stagnation of Countries: 1960-2001 (2009)
with Camelia Minoiu, Journal of Development Studies, Volume 45, Issue 1, pp. 1-23.
Estimating Poverty and Inequality from Grouped Data: How well do Parametric Methods Perform? (2009)
with Camelia Minoiu, Journal of Income Distribution, Volume 18, Issue 2.
Chinese Poverty: Assessing the Impact of Alternative Assumptions (2008)
with Camelia Minoiu, Review of Income and Wealth, Series 54, Number 4, pp. 572-596.
Unknown: The Extent, Distribution and Trend of Global Income Poverty (2006)
with Thomas Pogge, Economics and Political Weekly, Volume 41, Issue 22, pp. 2241-2247.
Counting the Poor: the Truth about World Poverty Statistics (2006)
Socialist Register, Volume 42, Issue 42, pp. 169-178.
A Capability-Based Approach to Estimating Global Poverty (2004)
Special issue of Poverty in Focus, [NP] UNDP International Poverty Centre, pp. 6-8.
Book Chapters
Poverty Beyond Obscurantism (2020)
in Dimensions of Poverty, ed. V. Beck, H. Hahn, and R. Lepenies. Heidelberg/Berlin: Springer.
How Not to Count the Poor (2010)
with Thomas Pogge, and response by M.Ravallion and counter-response by T. Pogge, in Debates in the Measurement of Poverty, ed. Joseph Stiglitz, Sudhir Anand and Paul Segal, Oxford University Press.
Inter-Country Comparisons of Income Poverty based on a Capability Approach (2008)
with Muhammad Asali and Sujata Visaria, in Arguments for a Better World, festschrift in honor of Amartya Sen, ed. Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur, Oxford University Press.
Op-Eds, Letters, Interviews, etc
All that is Wrong with Modi Govt’s Obsession with Ease of Doing Business Rankings (2018)
The Print, November 27.
The New Global Poverty Estimates: Digging Deeper into a Hole (2008)
UNDP International Poverty Centre, One Pager, Number 65, September.
Counting the Poor in the Americas (2008)
Americas Quarterly, Spring.
Difficulty of Making Meaningful Estimates of Poverty (2007)
Financial Times, November 19.
What is Poverty? (2002)
with Howard Nye and Thomas Pogge, New York Review of Books, August 15.
Unpublished Papers
The Construction of the DALY: Implications and Anomalies (2019)
with Sudhir Anand, Working Paper.
Who Got What, Then and Now? A Fifty Year Overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project (2015)
with Rahul Lahoti and Arjun Jayadev, Working Paper.
Choice of Index Numbers, Part I: Valuation and Evaluation (2006)
with Benjamin Plener, Columbia ISERP Working Paper.
How Not to Count the Poor, Extended version (2005)
with Thomas Pogge, Working Paper.
The Index Number Problem and Poverty Monitoring: The Unique Advantages of a Capability Approach (2003)
Working Paper.
How Not to Count the Poor! A Reply to Ravallion (2002)
with Thomas Pogge, Working Paper.