poverty. Results from estimating probability models indicate that social assistance receipt is strongly linked to joblessness …. However, as the Di Bao payments typically are small and many of the urban poor are not receivers, much urban poverty remains …

This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of … nationally designated poor county in China. Using the difference-in-differences approach, we show that targeted poverty … empirical evidence for boys. Our findings suggest that the new anti-poverty program in China has the potential to ameliorate the …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

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 …

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in …