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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?

Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

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Relative concerns of rural-to-urban migrants in China

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 421-441

As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we find that the well-being of migrants depends on several...

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Measuring and understanding the well-being of South Africans: Everyday quality of life in South Africa

Higgs, Neil - In: Social Indicators Research 81 (2007) 2, pp. 331-356

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Youth and Well-Being: A South African Case Study

Makiwane, Monde; Kwizera, Stella - In: Social Indicators Research 91 (2009) 2, pp. 223-242

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Pro-rural Policies, Income, and Inequality: Evaluating a Cash-for-Work Program in Rural China*

Chen, Yu; Démurger, Sylvie - In: Asian Economic Papers 13 (2014) 3, pp. 87-114

Despite the dramatic reduction of poverty in China over the past 35 years, poverty has not been fully eradicated in …

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Promotion of dairy farming and poverty reduction in Inner Mongolia, China

Dagula; Kiminami, Lily - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 1, pp. 82-96

Purpose – The purposes of this paper are to examine the actual conditions of the problems of poverty in rural areas in … Inner Mongolia, to clarify the problems involved in the measure to fight poverty through promotion of dairy farming and to … propose policies for future measures to fight poverty. Design/methodology/approach – Both quantitative and qualitative …

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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program

Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory …

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China's rural poverty line and the determinants of rural poverty

Wang, Xiuqing; Liu, Juan; Yao, Shujie; Xin, Xian - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 3, pp. 283-300

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to yield more plausible rural poverty lines for China and then assess the … determinants of rural poverty using these newly revised rural poverty lines. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper it is … argued that the Chinese official poverty line substantially misestimates the actual rural poverty situations. The poverty …

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Measuring Subjective Issues of Well-Being and Quality of Life in the European Statistical System

Smedt, Marleen - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 1, pp. 153-167

Over the last decades, the European Statistical System has developed many European statistics and indicators to measure social progress and sustainable development. Initially only in a few cases the measuring instruments contained questions on subjective issues. With the adoption of its...

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Evidence-Based Well-Being/Positive Psychology Assessment and Intervention with Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching and the Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI)

Frisch, Michael - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 2, pp. 193-227

Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching (also known as Quality of Life Therapy) is a comprehensive, manualized, theory-based, and, according to Diener (2013) and Seligman (Flourish, Free Press, NY, <CitationRef CitationID="CR134">2011</CitationRef>, p. 292), evidence-based approach to well being, happiness, and positive psychology intervention...</citationref>

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