Most Cited Articles
(1) “A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures”. (1984, with James Foster and Joel
Greer). Econometrica, 52(3), pp. 761-766.
(2) “Structural Path Analysis and Multiplier Decomposition within a Social
Accounting Matrix Framework”. (1984, with Jacques Defourny). The Economic
Journal, 94(373), pp. 111-136
(3) “Economic Inequality and Its Socio-Economic Impact”. (2002, with Chutatong
Charumilind). World Development, 30(9), pp. 1477-1495.
(4) “The Impact of Public Education Expenditure on Human Capital, Growth, and
Poverty in Tanzania and Zambia: A General Equilibrium Approach”. (2003, with
Hong-Sang Jung). Journal of Policy Modeling, 25(8), pp. 701-725.
(5) “Multidimensional Poverty: Conceptual and Measurement Issues”. (2013). In
Kakwani, N. & Silber, J. (Eds.). The Many Dimensions of Poverty (pp. 3-19).
Palgrave Macmillan.
(6) “The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures: 25 years later”. (2010,
with J. Foster and J. Greer). The Journal of Economic Inequality, 8(4), pp, 491-
524.
(7) “A Multiplier Decomposition Method to Analyze Poverty Alleviation”. (1996, with
H-S Jung). Journal of Development Economics, 48(2), pp. 253-277.
(8) “Poverty Analysis within a General Equilibrium Framework”. (1999, with B.
Decaluwe, A. Patry, and L. Savard). Monograph prepared for African Economic
Research Consortium. Also published as Centre de Recherche en Économie et
Finance Appliquées (CRÉFA) Working Paper 9909.
(9) “Channels and Policy Debate in the Globalization-Inequality-Poverty Nexus”.
(2006, with Nissanke, M.). World Development, 34(8), pp. 1338-1360.
(10) “A Methodology for Measuring Food Poverty Applied to Kenya”. (1986,
with Joel Greer). Journal of Development Economics, 24(1), pp. 59-74.
(11) “Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate [with
comments and discussion]”. (2004, with Ravallion, M. & Pritchett, L.).
In Brookings Trade Forum (pp. 1-38). Brookings Institution Press.
(12) “The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1900-2005”. (2007). In G.
Mavrotos, G. and Shorrocks, A. (Eds.). Advancing Development (pp. 3-36).
Palgrave MacMillan.
(13) “The History and Evolution of the Development Doctrine“, 1950–2017- Erik Thorbecke,
in Nissanke and Ocampo (editors) Handbook of Development Economics. Palgrave, 2017.
(14) “The Interrelationship Linking Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Sub-
Saharan Africa”. (2013, with Nissanke, M.). Journal of African Economies,
22(Suppl_1), i15-i48.
(15) “Adjustment, Growth and Income Distribution in Indonesia”. (1991).
World Development, 19(11), pp.1595-1614.
(16) “Rural Development, Growth and Poverty in Africa”. (2004, with Germano Mwabu). Journal of African Economies, Vol.13, Suppl.1, pp. i16-i65.
(17) “District-level economic linkages in Kenya: evidence based on a small
regional social accounting matrix”. (1992, with Lewis, B. D.). World
Development, 20(6), 881-897.
(18) “The Social Accounting Matrix and Consistency-Type Development
Planning Models”. (1985). In Pyatt, G. & Round, J. I. (Eds.), Social Accounting
Matrices, A Basis for Planning (pp. 207-256). The World Bank.
(19) “Macroeconomic Effects of Technology Choice: Multiplier and Structural
Path Analysis within a SAM Framework”. (1989, with Haider A. Khan). Journal of
Policy Modeling, 11(1): 131-156.
(20) “The State and Path of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Preliminary
Results”. (2000, with A.G. Ali). Journal of African Economies, Vol. 9, Supplement
1, pp. 9- 40.
(21) “Agricultural Development”. (1979). In: Galenson, W. (Ed.) Economic
Growth and Structural Change in Taiwan: The Postwar Experience of the
Republic of China (pp.132-205). Cornell University Press.
(See CV for a full list of articles)
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