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 …

alarming with respect to economic well-being as the poverty level especially among the STs. Slow progress in expected change in … the welfare and development of these (SC/ST) communities has not been fulfilled in implementation. Nevertheless the recent … violation of norms like equity, equality and social justice that ought to be followed in the development process in a welfare …

. We argue that analysis of subjective wellbeing can be used to enrich and validate the process of poverty analysis in the …

This study aims to investigate the role of economic growth and inflation in explaining the prevalence of poverty in … poverty, economic growth, inflation, investment and trade openness over the period of 1972-2008. Empirical results show that … economic growth and investment have negative and inflation has positive impact on poverty. The effect of trade openness on …

welfare and poverty. …

assesses impact of agricultural land on poverty and inequality in rural Vietnam. It is found that agricultural land increases …, agricultural land helps poverty reduction. Due to agricultural land, the headcount of poverty for land holders is reduced by around … 1.2 percentage points. Agricultural land also decreases the poverty-gap and poverty-severity indexes for the land …

, including data on the level of poverty and inequality in Jordan. Part 2 discusses the challenges and opportunities facing …

In this paper an attempt is made to estimate poverty line/ratio and inequality consistent with NAS based consumption … poverty measurement controversy based on two sources of estimations but explores consistent estimation. …