ongoing work under a joint energy study entitled INGENS - Income Generation through Energy and. Complementary Services. INGENS …

"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self …-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … reference point for new sample data from Venezuela. Having greater perceived income than one's siblings is found to be …

contributed to raise purchase prices and the cash income of vanilla farmers. But the effect on farmers' consumption remains small …

China is a global leader in the use of ecological compensation ("eco-compensation”)—fiscal transfers for environmental … and natural resources management. China is one of the most fiscally decentralized countries in the world, with 85 percent … impacts, and distills broad lessons from China for similar policies globally …

International experience suggests that the effect of globalization on economic growth, poverty and income distribution … the possible patterns of inequality in China in the future, and outlines policy options that could help accomplish China …

China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … been remarkable. Poverty in terms of income and consumption has been dramatically reduced. Progress has also been … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty …