Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable and noted feature of Chinese society. The paper … social policies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined. The limitations of a social policy that … livelihood approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty and inequality are considered. …

rate on the equilibrium growth rate as well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth and …This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … inequality is at first positive and then may be negative in the process of population aging. The results are consistent with the …

) but have moderate effects on the growth of subsequent years. Regional (per-capita) inequality is also evaluated using … discontinuity of per-capita GDP growth partitions Austria's regions into two groups. Clear evidence of discontinuity (a “take … Austria, Bohemia, Silesia, Galicia, Bukovina, and Dalmatia there is instead no evidence of structural break in their growth …

In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income … inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys …, using a number of assumptions, we are able to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility with respect to income. We obtain …

exploit this fact to identify the impact of opening a rural bank on poverty and output. Our estimates suggest that the Indian … rural branch expansion program significantly lowered rural poverty, and increased non-agricultural output. …

appreciable impact on growth and poverty. The evidence presented suggests that land reforms do appear to be associated with …In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land … poverty reduction. …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

parents' income while the Behrman/Taubman estimator regresses an S-period average of the child's resources on a T …-period average of the parents' income. The latter estimator is shown to be the arithmetic mean of the S slope estimates arising from …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …