This paper measures rural poverty in Hubei Province and Inner Mongolia in China. The poverty lines we derived by Ravallion's method differ from the official Chinese poverty lines. The official pan-country poverty line underestimates rural poverty in Hubei Province and overestimates rural poverty...

Purpose: The effect of market power on allocative efficiency is one of the most important topics in industrial organization and has undergone rigorous investigation since the 1970s. However, empirical studies based on firm-level data are relatively rare, especially with regard to China's...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of market power and returns to scale in the determination of farm-value share. Design/methodology/approach: This paper utilizes the equilibrium displacement model to investigate the role of market power and returns to scale in the...

PURPOSE: To study the effect of free glasses combined with teacher incentives on in-school glasses wear among Chinese urban migrant children.DESIGN: Cluster-randomized controlled trial.METHODS: Children with visual acuity (VA) £6/12 in either eye owing to refractive error in 94 randomly chosen...