This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data …

This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a …

aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper …, along with other variables, to regional inequality. [Discussion Paper No. 2004/10] …

structural modelling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. Case studies are presented for China and Morocco. Both the macro …

economic incentives. They focus on China‟s decades old household registration system, or the hukou institution, which …

risk-matching and intra-group diversification of risk using data on Thai microcredit borrowing groups. We propose a non …-parametric univariate methodology for assessing homogeneity of matching; structural multivariate analysis is carried out using Fox's (2008 …) matching maximum score estimator. We find evidence of a) homogeneous sorting by risk and b) risk anti-diversification within …

include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …

This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …