Ravi Kanbur

Research Fellow

Cornell University

Ravi Kanbur is T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He holds an appointment tenured both in the Department of Applied Economics and Management in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and in the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford. He has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex, Warwick, Princeton and Columbia.

Ravi Kanbur has also served on the staff of the World Bank, as Economic Adviser, Senior Economic Adviser, Resident Representative in Ghana, Chief Economist of the African Region of the World Bank, and Principal Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank.

Professor Kanbur's main areas of interest are public economics and development economics. His work spans conceptual, empirical, and policy analysis. He is particularly interested in bridging the worlds of rigorous analysis and practical policy making. His vita lists over 125 publications, covering topics such as risk taking, inequality, poverty, structural adjustment, debt, agriculture, and political economy. He has published in the leading economics journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory,and Economic Journal.

The honors he has received include the Quality of Research Discovery Award of the American Agricultural Economics Association and an Honorary Professorship at the University of Warwick.

Ravi Kanbur was born in India and brought up in India and in England.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2007.

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IZA-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10636
published in: C.Monga, J. Yifu Lin (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Structural Tansformation, Oxford University Press, 2019, 96 - 108
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10635
Ravi Kanbur, Yue Wang, Xiaobo Zhang
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 467 - 482
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9972
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (1), 119 - 144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9204
Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur, Benjamin Stanwix
published in: World Bank Observer, 2017, 32 (1), 21 - 74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5845
revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (589), 1534 - 1573
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4406
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14, 81 - 108
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3317
published as "Does Philanthropy Reduce Inequality?" in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 1-21
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3002
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 482-497
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