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This paper addresses the relationship between financial development and poverty, taking into account the direct link and the indirect link through economic growth. Using a panel of 81 developing countries over 1988-1997, we find evidence that financial development reduces the headcount poverty...
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relationship between agricultural trade and rural poverty in post-reform China. We find that trade liberalization can affect China … its ‘growth effects’ and ‘distributional effects’. However, although China’s impressive economic growth and trade …
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The aim of this paper is to examine the main reasons how aid can contribute to poverty reduction, the channels through which it can do so and the lessons of the literature on these issues, with a special focus on the way aid can address the vulnerability faced by many developing countries.
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in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the …
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. Finally, our estimates suggest that the external effect of China’s renminbi, which has been the focus of the profession thus … far, might be “the tip of the iceberg”: the latter two results carry over when China’s trade data are excluded from the …
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specifications, we present a much clearer picture of FDI dispersion and spatial convergence across China by highlighting the …
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The usual manner of describing inequality in a population, involves income distributions. China has experienced rapid … the financing of such services. The changing face of inequality in China is therefore not confined to income. As such this … different dimensions considered. My results show that there has been a significant increase in inequality in China between 1997 …
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China within the cross-country relations of (absolute and conditional) convergence and its move since the transition period …. Then it evidences a cross-province relation of convergence within China, stronger if this is conditional than absolute …
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Since the implementation of the economic reforms in 1978, there is a remarkable diversification trend in rural China …-industry diversification in rural China. …
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This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into growth and inequality effects. After a complete and critical review of the invariance axioms suggested in the literature, we show that few information is needed for the ordering of...
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