Sanjiv M. Ravi Kanbur
(born 28 August 1954),
is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics, and Professor of Economics at
Cornell University
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He worked for the
World Bank
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for almost two decades and was the director of the
World Development Report
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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.
Early life
Ravi Kanbur is
British
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he was born in India and brought up in India and England.
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.
He studied under the
Nobel Prize
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winning economist
Amartya Sen
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and Sen has stated that his association with Kanbur has been beneficial to his writing.
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
The World Development Report (WDR) is an annual report published since 1978 by the World Bank. Each WDR provides in-depth analysis of a specific aspect of economic development. Past reports have considered such topics as agriculture, youth, equity ...
. 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
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2 ...
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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)."
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.
The World Bank denied that US treasury secretary
Larry Summers
Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as the director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He also served as presiden ...
or anyone else had influenced the report to make it less radical.
Awards
* 1991 Quality of Research Discovery Award from the
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) for the paper ''How serious is the neglect of intrahousehold inequality?''
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* 1994 Honorary Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
Personal life
Kanbur is married to Margaret Grieco, Professor of Transport and Society at Edinburgh Napier University
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, Scotland.
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See also
* Feminist economics
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* List of feminist economists
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References
External links
Profile page: Ravi Kanbur
– Cornell University
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1954 births
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford
Cornell University faculty
British development economists
Feminist economists
Living people
World Bank people
Center for Global Development