This paper investigates how estimates of the extent and trend of income poverty in China between 1990 and 2001 vary as … a result of alternative plausible assumptions concerning key parameters that influence the poverty line and estimated … within a reasonable range, a remarkable reduction in consumption poverty occurred in China during the 1990s. However …

of labour is near- zero and productivity of land provides only subsistence. Poverty keeps consumption and savings low …

in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural … links to the market. Poverty cripples the very foundations of these possibilities. Therefore, under the prevailing …

We evaluate the claim that world consumption poverty has fallen during the 1990s in light of alternative assumptions … about the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty reduction in China, India, and the rest of the … developing world. We assess the extent of poverty using two indicators: the aggregate poverty headcount and the poverty headcount …

Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … normative significance to the poverty line is to allow the welfare measure to exhibit a discrete loss from poverty (DLP) at z …

, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and …