Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … increases. Poverty in rural China is disproportionally concentrated to the western regions and to poor counties. Most of rural …

parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school is subject to particular attention. The potential …. Extreme poverty is another factor lowering school attendance, as children who have suffered hunger at some point in their …

and long-run growth. Our model can generate transitory informality equilibria or informality-induced poverty traps. Its … calibration reveals that the case for the poverty-trap hypothesis is strong: although informality serves to protect low …-skilled workers from extreme poverty in the short-run, it prevents income convergence between developed and developing nations in the …