Remembering Martin Ravallion, ‘superstar’ Australian economist who made poverty his life’s work

When the World Bank set its mission to a world free of poverty', it was Martin's definition and Martin's measure'

Martin Ravallion, an Australian economist who devoted his career to fighting poverty, occasionally found his reputation preceded him to remote parts of the world.

In 2016 the Dutch publication De Correspondent described a 2005 field trip Ravillion took to the southern Chinese province of Guizhou - one of the country's poorest - where he asked the county statistician what approach he used to calculate how many people in the region were poor.