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The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate...
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This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of … summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns concerning the trajectory of inequality through the reform period. We …
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