of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth …. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty … in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys - one rural and one urban …

Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low …

Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income … survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002, we investigate factors affecting receipt and how receipt affects urban … poverty. Results from estimating probability models indicate that social assistance receipt is strongly linked to joblessness …

Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality … increased urban poverty. Using a large repeated cross-section household survey data from 1986 to 2000, this study maps out the … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …

Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates … poverty differences can be attributed to differences in location together with temporary and persistent poverty in rural China …

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 …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 ….5 times that of local resident households, we find relatively small differences in the poverty rates of migrants and local …

address housing policy issues in China. One of the main concerns in Chinese cities is the raise of poverty mainly by "illegal …" migrants (who are Chinese rural residents) living in "urban villages". We propose two steps to fight against poverty in Chinese … case, to fight against poverty, one can either implement place-targeted policies (like the enterprise zone programs in the …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …